| Snow Bears | Philip Dalton | documentary film |
| Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | romance film, drama film |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh | mystery film, drama film, black comedy film, crime film |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Kenneth Branagh | mystery film, drama film, detective film, crime film |
| Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | mystery film, Western film, thriller film, crime film |
| Dunkirk | — | drama film, historical film, war film |
| Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | crime comedy film, action film, action comedy film, adventure film |
| Unlocked | Michael Apted | action film, thriller film |
| I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | drama film |
| Alien: Covenant | Ridley Scott | science fiction horror film, suspense film, drama film, monster film, action film, horror film, science fiction action film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Guy Ritchie | drama film, fantasy film, adventure film, medieval film |
| Silence | Martin Scorsese | drama film, historical film |
| Alone in Berlin | Vincent Perez | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Denial | Mick Jackson | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| A United Kingdom | Amma Asante | romance film, drama film, biographical film |
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Mandie Fletcher | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Anthropoid | Sean Ellis | drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film, biographical film |
| Me Before You | Thea Sharrock | romance film, drama film |
| Warcraft | Duncan Jones | fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| Eddie the Eagle | Dexter Fletcher | biographical sports film, drama film, comedy drama |
| Suite française | Saul Dibb | romance film, drama film |
| Legend | Brian Helgeland | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, biographical film, crime film |
| Carol | Todd Haynes | romance film, lesbian-related film, drama film, melodrama, LGBTQ-related film, Christmas film |
| Concussion | Peter Landesman | American football film, drama film, biographical film |
| Spectre | Sam Mendes | action film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film |
| Pan | Joe Wright | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, pirate film, children's film, adventure film |
| Survivor | James McTeigue | action film, spy film |
| 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | drama film |
| The Gunman | Pierre Morel | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Child 44 | Daniel Espinosa | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | Tom Harper | drama film, horror film, ghost film |
| Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton, Richard Starzak | comedy film, adventure film |
| Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama | Lisa Marie Gamlem, John Andreas Andersen | pirate film, children's film |
| Taken 3 | Olivier Megaton | action film, thriller film, vigilante film |
| Selma | Ava DuVernay | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| Citizenfour | Laura Poitras | documentary film |
| Fury | David Ayer | drama film, action film, war film |
| Love, Rosie | Christian Ditter | romance film, comedy film |
| Rwanda: The Untold Story | — | documentary film |
| X+Y | Morgan Matthews | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy drama |
| A Most Wanted Man | Anton Corbijn | drama film, spy film, thriller film, crime film |
| The House of Magic | Jeremy Degruson, Ben Stassen | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Lucy | Luc Besson | biopunk, drama film, girls with guns, action film, science fiction film |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | time-travel film, superhero film, action film, dystopian film, crossover fiction, thriller film, science fiction film |
| The Invisible Woman | Ralph Fiennes | romance film, drama film, melodrama, biographical film |
| 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | drama film, biographical film |
| The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Ben Stiller | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film |