| Quills | Philip Kaufman | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| I Dreamed of Africa | Hugh Hudson | United States |
| Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | United States |
| Moloch | Alexander Sokurov | Russia, Germany |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| RKO 281 | Benjamin Ross | United States |
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | United Kingdom, United States |
| Jefferson in Paris | James Ivory | France, United States |
| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| This Boy's Life | Michael Caton-Jones | United States |
| The Lover | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Vietnam |
| Bugsy | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | France, Australia |
| Weininger's Last Night | Paulus Manker | Germany, Austria |
| Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom |
| Evil Angels | Fred Schepisi | United States, Australia |
| Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Przeznaczenie | Jacek Koprowicz | Poland |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | United States |
| America and Lewis Hine | Nina Rosenblum | United States |
| Tan Sitong | Chen Jialin | People's Republic of China |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | United States |
| Shaolin Rescuers | Chang Cheh | British Hong Kong |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| The Youth of Peter the Great | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | United States |
| Mina, Wind of Freedom | Antonio Eceiza | Mexico |
| The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | Norway, Poland |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish People's Republic |
| The Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| Alluri Seetharama Raju | V. Ramachandra Rao | India |
| Serpico | Sidney Lumet | United States, Italy |
| Grandmaster | Sergey Mikaelyan | Soviet Union |
| Lady Sings the Blues | Sidney J. Furie | United States |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Franklin J. Schaffner | United Kingdom, United States |
| Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| The Ambassador of the Soviet Union | Georgi Natanson | Soviet Union |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | United States |
| Subject for a Short Story | Sergei Yutkevich | France, Soviet Union |
| Che! | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Moabite Notebook | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Soviet Union |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Germany, Italy |
| Sofiya Perovskaya | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| On the Same Planet | Ilya Olshvanger | Soviet Union |