| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Guy Ferland | United States |
| Stratosphere Girl | Matthias X. Oberg | France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands |
| Mona Lisa Smile | Mike Newell | United States |
| Secondhand Lions | Tim McCanlies | United States |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| What a Girl Wants | Dennie Gordon | United States |
| Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Bookies | Mark Illsley | Germany, United States |
| Igby Goes Down | Burr Steers | United States |
| City of God | Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles | France, Brazil |
| Spider-Man | Sam Raimi | United States |
| National Lampoon's Van Wilder | Walt Becker | Germany, United States |
| Orange County | Jake Kasdan | United States |
| Me Without You | Sandra Goldbacher | United Kingdom |
| Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat | France, Italy |
| Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure | Darrell Rooney, Jeannine Roussel | United States |
| Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool | Canada |
| Girl, Interrupted | James Mangold | United States |
| Crazy | Hans-Christian Schmid | Germany |
| The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | United States |
| She's All That | Robert Iscove | United States |
| Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark |
| Simon Birch | Mark Steven Johnson | United States |
| Smoke Signals | Chris Eyre | Canada, United States |
| Can't Hardly Wait | Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont | United States |
| That Thing You Do! | Tom Hanks | United States |
| Beyond Silence | Caroline Link | Germany |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondō | Japan |
| The Last of the High Kings | David Keating | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| After Five in the Forest Primeval | Hans-Christian Schmid | Germany |
| How to Make an American Quilt | Jocelyn Moorhouse | United States |
| Angus | Patrick Read Johnson | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Billy Madison | Tamra Davis | United States |
| There Goes My Baby | Floyd Mutrux | United States |
| The Next Karate Kid | Christopher Cain | United States |
| Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | United States |
| This Boy's Life | Michael Caton-Jones | United States |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | United States |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States |
| Pump Up the Volume | Allan Moyle | Canada, United States |
| Flirting | John Duigan | Australia |
| Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | United States |
| The Reflecting Skin | Philip Ridley | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | United States |