Eventos
- 30 de setembro : O jovem ator James Dean morre num desastre de automóvel, ao volante so seu Porsche, com apenas 24 anos de idade.
Principais filmes estreados
- All That Heaven Allows, de Douglas Sirk, com Jane Wyman e Rock Hudson
- Les amants du Tage, de Henri Verneuil, com Daniel Gélin, Trevor Howard e Amália Rodrigues
- Le amiche, de Michelangelo Antonioni
- Artists and Models, de Frank Tashlin, com Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine e Anita Ekberg
- Bad Day at Black Rock, de John Sturges, com Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine e Lee Marvin
- Il bidone, de Federico Fellini, com Giulietta Masina e Richard Basehart
- Blackboard Jungle, de Richard Brooks, com Glenn Ford e Sidney Poitier
- Blood Alley, de William A. Wellman, com John Wayne, Lauren Bacall e Anita Ekberg
- Dementia, de John Parker com Bruno VeSota, Adrienne Barrett, Ed McMahon, Shorty Rogers, Bem Roseman e Shelley Berman
- The Desperate Hours, de William Wyler, com Humphrey Bogart e Fredric March
- Les diaboliques, de Henri-Georges Clouzot, com Véra Clouzot e Simone Signoret
- Du rififi chez les hommes, de Jules Dassin, com Jean Servais
- East of Eden, de Elia Kazan, com James Dean, Julie Harris e Burl Ives
- Ensayo de un crimen, de Luis Buñuel
- Les grandes manoeuvres, de René Clair, com Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe e Brigitte Bardot
- Guys and Dolls, de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, com Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons e Frank Sinatra
- House of Bamboo, de Samuel Fuller, com Robert Ryan e Robert Stack
- Ikimono no kiroku, de Akira Kurosawa, com Toshirô Mifune
- Killer's Kiss, de Stanley Kubrick, com Frank Silvera
- Kiss Me Deadly, de Robert Aldrich, com Ralph Meeker e Cloris Leachman
- Lady and the Tramp, filme de animação da Walt Disney Productions
- The Ladykillers (1955), de Alexander Mackendrick, com Alec Guinness e Peter Sellers
- Land of the Pharaohs, de Howard Hawks, com Jack Hawkins e Joan Collins
- The Left Hand of God, de Edward Dmytryk, com Humphrey Bogart e Gene Tierney
- Lola Montès, de Max Ophüls, com Martine Carol e Peter Ustinov
- The Long Gray Line, de John Ford, com Tyrone Power e Maureen O'Hara
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, de Henry King, com William Holden e Jennifer Jones
- The Man from Laramie, de Anthony Mann, com James Stewart
- The Man with the Golden Arm, de Otto Preminger, com Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker e Kim Novak
- Man Without a Star, de King Vidor, com Kirk Douglas
- Marcelino pan y vino, de Ladislao Vajda
- Marty, de Delbert Mann, com Ernest Borgnine
- Mister Roberts, de John Ford e Mervyn LeRoy, com Henry Fonda, James Cagney e Jack Lemmon
- Moonfleet, de Fritz Lang, com Stewart Granger e George Sanders
- Mr. Arkadin, de e com Orson Welles e com Michael Redgrave
- Muerte de un ciclista, de Juan Antonio Bardem, com Lucia Bosé
- The Night of the Hunter, de Charles Laughton, com Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters e Lillian Gish
- Not as a Stranger, de Stanley Kramer, com Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame e Lee Marvin
- Nuit et brouillard, documentário de Alain Resnais
- Oklahoma!, de Fred Zinnemann, com Gordon MacRae e Gloria Grahame
- Ordet, de Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Pather Panchali, de Satyajit Ray
- Picnic, de Joshua Logan, com William Holden, Kim Novak e Cliff Robertson
- La Pointe-Courte, de Agnès Varda, com Philippe Noiret
- Pokolenie, de Andrzej Wajda, com Roman Polanski
- Rebel Without a Cause, de Nicholas Ray, com James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo e Dennis Hopper
- Richard III, de e com Laurence Olivier e com Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Richardson e John Gielgud
- The Seven Year Itch, de Billy Wilder, com Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell e Oskar Homolka
- Shin heike monogatari, de Kenji Mizoguchi
- Sissi, de Ernst Marischka, com Romy Schneider e Karlheinz Böhm
- Sommarnattens leende, de Ingmar Bergman, com Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson e Gunnar Björnstrand
- Stella, de Michael Cacoyannis, com Melina Mercouri
- The Tall Men, de Raoul Walsh, com Clark Gable, Jane Russell e Robert Ryan
- Tarantula, de Jack Arnold, com John Agar, Mara Corday e Leo G. Carroll
- To Catch a Thief, de Alfred Hitchcock, com Cary Grant e Grace Kelly
- The Trouble with Harry, de Alfred Hitchcock, com John Forsythe e Shirley MacLaine
- Ukigumo, de Mikio Naruse
- Yôkihi, de Kenji Mizoguchi
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