| Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea | Kōbun Shizuno | Japan |
| Welcome to the Punch | Eran Creevy | United Kingdom, United States |
| New World | Park Hoon-jung | South Korea |
| 8-Ball | Aku Louhimies | Finland |
| Bernie | Richard Linklater | United States |
| The Raven | James McTeigue | United States |
| The Body | Oriol Paulo | Spain |
| A Perfect Getaway | — | United States |
| Lawless | John Hillcoat | United States |
| Everybody Has a Plan | Ana Piterbarg | Germany, Spain, Argentina |
| Lay the Favorite | Stephen Frears | United States |
| Safe | Boaz Yakin | United States |
| 21 Jump Street | Christopher Miller, Phil Lord | United States |
| A Gang Story | Olivier Marchal | France, Belgium |
| Behzat Ç.: Seni Kalbime Gömdüm | Serdar Akar | Turkey |
| Hindsight | Lee Hyeon-seung | South Korea |
| 30 Minutes or Less | Ruben Fleischer | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Born Bad | Jared Cohn | United States |
| Elena | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| Fast Five | Justin Lin | United States |
| Election | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| 22 Bullets | Richard Berry | France |
| Saw: A Hardcore Parody | Dick Chibbles | United States |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | Germany, Sweden, Denmark |
| Speed | Brad Armstrong | United States |
| Cold Fish | Sion Sono | Japan |
| Outrage | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| Salve Geral | Sérgio Rezende | Brazil |
| Los Bandoleros | Vin Diesel | United States |
| S. Darko | Chris Fisher | United States |
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | United States |
| Gomorrah | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Burn After Reading | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Like a Dragon | Takashi Miike | Japan |
| The Bank Job | Roger Donaldson | United Kingdom |
| Changeling | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | United States |
| Rivals | Jacques Maillot | France |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton | United Kingdom, United States |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| War | Philip Atwell | United States |
| Vũ điệu tử thần | Bui Tuan Dung | Vietnam |
| This Is England | Shane Meadows | United Kingdom |
| Nancy Drew | Andrew Fleming | United States |
| Fracture | Gregory Hoblit | United States |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Germany, Austria |