Movies released in 1956| 5 Steps to Danger | Henry S. Kesler |
| 7 Men from Now | Budd Boetticher |
| Accused of Murder | Joseph Kane |
| Anastasia | Anatole Litvak |
| Autumn Leaves | Robert Aldrich |
| Back from Eternity | John Farrow |
| Bad Seed, The | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Barbecue Brawl | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray |
| Bitter Stems, The | Fernando Ayala |
| Black Sleep, The | Reginald Le Borg |
| Blue Cat Blues | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna |
| Bob le Flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Bus Stop | Joshua Logan |
| Conceited General, The | Wei Te |
| Country I Come From, The | Marcel Carné |
| Creature Walks Among Us, The | John Sherwood |
| Crime Against Joe | Lee Sholem |
| Crime in the Streets | Don Siegel |
| Crime of Passion | Gerd Oswald |
| Curucu, Beast of the Amazon | Curt Siodmak |
| Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred F. Sears |
| Fastest Gun Alive, The | Russell Rouse |
| Female Jungle | Bruno VeSota |
| Fire Maidens of Outer Space | Cy Roth |
| Flight to Hong Kong | Joseph M. Newman |
| Fool’s Mate | Jacques Rivette |
| Forbidden Planet | Fred M. Wilcox |
| Fright | W. Lee Wilder |
| Full of Life | Richard Quine |
| Gamma People, The | John Gilling |
| Gelignite Gang, The | Terence Fisher, Francis Searle |
| Giant | George Stevens |
| Girl Can't Help It, The | Frank Tashlin |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Ishirō Honda, Terry O. Morse |
| Great American Pastime, The | Herman Hoffman |
| High Society | Charles Walters |
| Hill in Korea, A | Julian Amyes |
| Hollywood or Bust | Frank Tashlin |
| Hungry Soul, Part II | Yuzo Kawashima |
| Indestructible Man | Jack Pollexfen |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel |
| It Conquered the World | Roger Corman |
| Julie | Andrew L. Stone |
| Killer Is Loose, The | Budd Boetticher |
| Killers, The | Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon, Marika Beiku |
| Killing, The | Stanley Kubrick |
| Kiss Before Dying, A | Gerd Oswald |
| La Pointe Courte | Agnès Varda |
| Last Wagon, The | Delmer Daves |
| Love Me Tender | Robert D. Webb |
| Man Beast | Jerry Warren |
| Man Escaped, A | Robert Bresson |
| Man Who Knew Too Much, The | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Man Who Never Was, The | Ronald Neame |
| Mole People, The | Virgil W. Vogel |
| Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur |
| Over-Exposed | Lewis Seiler |
| Pardners | Norman Taurog |
| Patterns | Fielder Cook |
| Please Murder Me | Peter Godfrey |
| Power and the Prize, The | Henry Koster |
| Ransom! | Alex Segal |
| Red Balloon, The | Albert Lamorisse |
| Rodan | Ishirō Honda |
| Runaway Daughters | Edward L. Cahn |
| Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Satellite in the Sky | Paul Dickson |
| Scarlet Hour, The | Michael Curtiz |
| Searchers, The | John Ford |
| Sharkfighters, The | Jerry Hopper |
| She-Creature, The | Edward L. Cahn |
| Short Vision, A | Peter Foldes, Joan Foldes |
| Spin a Dark Web | Vernon Sewell |
| Star of Bethlehem, The | Lotte Reiniger, Vivian Milroy |
| Sword and the Dragon, The | Aleksandr Ptushko |
| Time Table | Mark Stevens |
| Tribute to a Bad Man | Robert Wise |
| Violent Years, The | William Morgan |
| Warning from Space | Koji Shima |
| Werewolf, The | Fred F. Sears |
| While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang |
| World Without End | Edward Bernds |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk |
| Wrong Man, The | Alfred Hitchcock |
| X the Unknown | Leslie Norman |