| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| The Scream of the Silk | Yvon Marciano | drama film |
| Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, sexploitation film, erotic film, musical film |
| Beyond the Clouds | Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni | romance film, drama film |
| Angus | Patrick Read Johnson | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film |
| Jefferson in Paris | James Ivory | drama film, biographical film |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| Stargate | Roland Emmerich | action film, science fiction film |
| Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin | Jiří Menzel | satirical film, comedy film, war film |
| Revenge of the Musketeers | Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda | comedy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film |
| Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film, war film, historical drama |
| Three Colours: Blue | Krzysztof Kieślowski | art film, drama film |
| Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poiré | fantasy film, comedy film |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | romance film, drama film |
| Playtime | Claire Simon | documentary film |
| The Lover | Jean-Jacques Annaud | drama film, melodrama, biographical film |
| A Tale of Winter | Éric Rohmer | comedy drama |
| The Mambo Kings | Arne Glimcher | drama film, musical film |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | drama film, biographical film |
| Anna Karamazoff | Rustam Khamdamov | drama film |
| Toto the Hero | Jaco Van Dormael | comedy drama |
| Nikita | Luc Besson | drama film, girls with guns, action film, thriller film |
| La contre-allée | Isabel Sebastian | comedy drama |
| Everybody's Fine | Giuseppe Tornatore | drama film |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Claude Lelouch | drama film, melodrama |
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | drama film, slice of life |
| Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | drama film |
| Landscape in the Mist | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film |
| Police | Catherine Breillat, Maurice Pialat | drama film, crime film |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | comedy film, historical film |
| Asterix Versus Caesar | Paul Brizzi, Gaëtan Brizzi | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film |
| Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | romance film, drama film |
| Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film, musical film |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | drama film, war film |
| Dawn | Miklós Jancsó | drama film |
| The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | action film, treasure hunt film, romantic comedy |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | comedy film, adventure film, war film |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | drama film |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film |
| Le Marginal | Jacques Deray | action film, crime film |
| Victory March | Marco Bellocchio | drama film |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | spy film, thriller film, war film, crime film |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | drama film, medieval film, musical film |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Mauro Bolognini | period drama film |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| The Seventh Company Outdoors | Robert Lamoureux | comedy film |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film |