| Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | United States |
| Juice | Ernest Dickerson | United States |
| Mean Tricks | Umberto Lenzi | Italy |
| Backdraft | Ron Howard | United States |
| Dude - Water Winner | Arkady Tigay | Soviet Union |
| Mobsters | Michael Karbelnikoff | United States |
| Oscar | John Landis | United States |
| The Bodyguard (1991 film) | Anatolii Ivanov | Soviet Union |
| Wedlock | Lewis Teague | United States |
| Downtown | Richard Benjamin | United States |
| Men of Respect | William Reilly | United States |
| Rafales | André Melançon | Canada |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | United States |
| The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| Anarchy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | United States |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | United States |
| As Tears Go By | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| La Maison assassinée | Georges Lautner | France |
| Last Rites | Donald P. Bellisario | United States |
| My Name Is Harlequin | Valery Rybaraw | Soviet Union |
| Things Change | David Mamet | United States |
| First Encounter - Last Encounter | Vitali Melnikov | Soviet Union |
| Flaming Brothers | Joe Cheung Tung-joe | Hong Kong |
| No Man's Land | Peter Werner | United States |
| The Rosary Murders | Fred Walton | United States |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States |
| Death of a Soldier | Philippe Mora | Australia |
| F/X | Robert Mandel | United States |
| My Dearly Beloved Detective | Aleksei Simonov | Soviet Union |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, Germany, Italy |
| Exterminator 2 | Mark Buntzman | United States |
| The Glitter Dome | Stuart Margolin | United States |
| 10 to Midnight | J. Lee Thompson | United States |
| Abhilasha | A. Kodandarami Reddy | India |
| Curse of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | United Kingdom, United States |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | Gabon, France, Germany |
| Klippet | Jan Halldoff | Sweden |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | United States |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | France |
| Série noire | Alain Corneau | France |
| The Brothers | Hua Shan | Hong Kong |
| Sweeney 2 | Tom Clegg | United Kingdom |
| Bag of the Collector | Avgust Baltrušaitis | Soviet Union |
| Do kalle-shagh | Iraj Ghaderi | Iran |
| Kooch | Mehdi Reisfirooz | Iran |
| Koose-ye Jonoob | Samuel Khachikian | Iran |
| Telefon | Don Siegel | United States |