| Wassa | Philip Atwell | United States |
| 8 Women | François Ozon | France |
| Hard Cash | Predrag Antonijević | United States |
| People I Know | Daniel Algrant | Germany, United States |
| Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | United States |
| The Nest | Florent-Emilio Siri | France |
| Along Came a Spider | Lee Tamahori | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Indian | N. Maharajan | India |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States |
| Proof of Life | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| The Watcher | Joe Charbanic | United States |
| Attack the Gas Station | Kim Sang-jin | South Korea |
| Jill Rips | Anthony Hickox | United States |
| Running Out of Time | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| American Dragons | Ralph Hemecker | United States |
| B. Monkey | Michael Radford | United Kingdom |
| The Longest Nite | Patrick Yau, Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag | Tom Schulman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Dangerous Ground | Darrell Roodt | South Africa, United States |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | United States |
| Fire Down Below | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | United States |
| Keys to Tulsa | Leslie Greif | United States |
| Little Tropikana | Daniel Díaz Torres | Germany, Cuba, Spain |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Red Corner | Jon Avnet | United States |
| Turbulence | Robert Butler | United States |
| Gotti | Robert Harmon | Canada, United States |
| Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Substitute | Robert Mandel | United States |
| Feast of July | Christopher Menaul | United Kingdom |
| Illegal in Blue | Stu Segall | United States |
| Kiss of Death | Barbet Schroeder | United States |
| Les Anges gardiens | Jean-Marie Poiré | France |
| The Black Veil | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia |
| The Glass Shield | Charles Burnett | United States |
| Who Killed Pasolini? | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
| Cops & Robbersons | Michael Ritchie | United States |
| Fresh | Boaz Yakin | France, United States |
| La Cité de la peur | Alain Berbérian | France |
| No Motive | Buck Adams | United States |
| Teresa's Tattoo | Julie Cypher | United States |
| The Ref | Ted Demme | United States |
| Amos & Andrew | Eric Max Frye | United States |
| Kalifornia | Dominic Sena | United States |
| Sliver | Phillip Noyce | United States |
| Striking Distance | Rowdy Herrington | United States |
| When I Close My Eyes | Franci Slak | Slovenia |