| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film |
| If These Walls Could Talk | Cher | drama film |
| Mad Dog Time | Larry Bishop | buddy film |
| Marquis de Sade | Gwyneth Gibby | drama film |
| Matilda | Danny DeVito | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film |
| Mother | Albert Brooks | comedy drama |
| Norma Jean & Marilyn | Tim Fywell | drama film, biographical film |
| Oblivion 2: Backlash | Sam Irvin | Western film, science fiction film |
| Race the Sun | Charles T. Kanganis | comedy film, comedy drama |
| Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | drama film |
| Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse | Deborah Dickson, Anne Belle | documentary film |
| The Arrival | — | science fiction horror film, horror film, alien invasion, thriller film, science fiction film |
| The Glimmer Man | John Gray | action film, thriller film, buddy cop film |
| The Grave | Jonas Pate | treasure hunt film |
| The Pallbearer | Matt Reeves | romantic comedy |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, trial film, biographical film |
| The Substitute | Robert Mandel | teen film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Tremors 2: Aftershocks | S. S. Wilson | monster film, action film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film |
| Tromeo and Juliet | Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn | drama film, comedy film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Wedding Bell Blues | Dana Lustig | female buddy film, romantic comedy |
| White Squall | Ridley Scott | drama film, action film, adventure film, disaster film |
| Boys on the Side | Herbert Ross | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, female buddy film, comedy drama |
| Clockwork Orgy | Nic Cramer | comedy film, pornographic parody film, pornographic film |
| Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home | Dwight H. Little | drama film, family film, adventure film |
| French Kiss | Lawrence Kasdan | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Funny Bones | Peter Chelsom | drama film, comedy film |
| Illegal in Blue | Stu Segall | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Jury Duty | John Fortenberry | comedy film, trial film |
| Kiss of Death | Barbet Schroeder | drama film, action film, crime film |
| Lieberman in Love | Christine Lahti | independent film |
| Lord of Illusions | Clive Barker | fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir |
| Love Tales | — | — |
| Major Payne | Nick Castle | action comedy film |
| Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper | Terry Sanders | documentary film |
| Remembering Times Gone Bi | James C. Stark | bisexual pornographic film |
| Robin Hood | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film |
| Tales from the Hood | Rusty Cundieff | drama film, horror film, hood film |
| The Amazing Panda Adventure | Christopher Cain | children's film, adventure film |
| The Glass Shield | Charles Burnett | drama film, crime film |
| The Infiltrator | John Mackenzie | drama film |
| The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving | Roy Allen Smith | family film, fantasy film, adventure film |
| The Nutcracker | Toshi Hiruma, Takashi Masunaga | — |
| The Run of the Country | Peter Yates | — |
| Tommy Boy | Peter Segal | screwball comedy film, buddy film |
| Waiting to Exhale | Forest Whitaker | drama film, female buddy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Bad Girls | Jonathan Kaplan | Western film, action film, adventure film, female buddy film |
| Conversations with Vincent | Tim Burton | documentary film |
| Cops & Robbersons | Michael Ritchie | comedy film, crime film |