| 88 Minutes | Jon Avnet | United States |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States, Italy |
| Freedom Writers | Richard LaGravenese | United States |
| The Night of the Sunflowers | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | France, Spain, Portugal |
| Miami Vice | — | United States |
| The swallow, the cat, the rose, death | Daniel Lind Lagerlöf | Sweden |
| The Da Vinci Code | Ron Howard | United States |
| Alpha Dog | Nick Cassavetes | Germany, United States |
| Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake | Martin Asphaug | Sweden |
| The Devil's Rejects | Rob Zombie | Germany, United States |
| King's Ransom | Jeffrey W. Byrd | Canada, United States |
| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Edison | David J. Burke | Germany, United States |
| Angels in Fast Motion | Ole Christian Madsen | Denmark |
| Hostage | Konstantinos Giannaris | Greece, Turkey |
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | Germany, United States |
| Elektra | Rob Bowman | United States |
| Man on Fire | Tony Scott | United States |
| Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston | United States, Ecuador, Colombia |
| Taking Lives | D.J. Caruso | Canada, United States, Australia |
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out | Yves Simoneau | United States |
| Bookies | Mark Illsley | Germany, United States |
| Bad Boys | Aleksi Mäkelä | Finland |
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Spain, United States |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| High Crimes | Carl Franklin | United States |
| City by the Sea | Michael Caton-Jones | United States |
| Tycoon | Pavel Lungin | France, Russia |
| Unfaithful | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| City of God | Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles | France, Brazil |
| Original Sin | Michael Cristofer | United States, Mexico |
| Lucky Numbers | Nora Ephron | France, United States |
| Sisters | Sergey Bodrov, Jr. | Russia |
| Blow | Ted Demme | United States |
| Save the Last Dance | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Antitrust | Peter Howitt | United States |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | Germany, United States, Mexico |
| Cecil B. Demented | John Waters | France, United States |
| Boiler Room | Ben Younger | United States |
| Bloody Weekend | Thomas Roth | Germany, Austria |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Lima: Breaking the Silence | Menahem Golan | United States |
| Zero Tolerance | Anders Nilsson | Sweden |
| Black and White | James Toback | United States |
| Analyze This | Harold Ramis | United States, Australia |