| Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| Foreign Body | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland, Italy |
| Land of Storms | Ádám Császi | Germany, Hungary |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby | Ned Benson | United States |
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Francis Lawrence | United States |
| American Sniper | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Fury | David Ayer | United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, United States |
| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | Isao Takahata | Japan |
| Force Majeure | Ruben Östlund | France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Addicted | Bille Woodruff | United States |
| Dolphin Tale 2 | Charles Martin Smith | United States |
| Haider | Vishal Bhardwaj | India |
| Shades of Scarlet | Mike Quasar | United States |
| The Good Lie | Philippe Falardeau | Kenya, United States, India |
| X+Y | Morgan Matthews | United Kingdom |
| Đam mê | Phi Tiến Sơn | Vietnam |
| A Most Wanted Man | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Michael Kohlhaas | Arnaud des Pallières | France, Germany |
| Lucy | Luc Besson | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan |
| Step Up: All In | Trish Sie | United States |
| Locust | Egor Baranov | Russia |
| Goodbye Mom | Svetlana Proskurina | Russia |
| CityLights | Hansal Mehta | India |
| Breathe | Mélanie Laurent | France |
| Flower and Snake: Zero | Hajime Hashimoto | Japan |
| The Avian Kind | Shin Yeon-shick | South Korea |
| Blood Ties | Guillaume Canet | France, United States |
| Tamako Love Story | Naoko Yamada | Japan |
| The Invisible Woman | Ralph Fiennes | United Kingdom |
| Son of God | Christopher Spencer | United States |
| Halawet Rooh | Sameh Abdulaziz | Egypt |
| Out of the Furnace | Scott Cooper | United States |
| My Summer in Provence | Roselyne Bosch | France |
| In the Crosswind | Martti Helde | Estonia |
| Salaud, on t'aime | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Need for Speed | Scott Waugh | United States, India |
| Cesar Chavez | Diego Luna | United States, Mexico |
| Endless Love | Shana Feste | United States |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Jean-Marc Vallée | United States |
| 47 Ronin | Carl Rinsch | United States |
| Jai Ho | Sohail Khan | India |
| Die letzte Instanz | Carlo Rola | Germany |
| 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom, United States |
| August: Osage County | John Wells | United States |
| The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | United Kingdom, Australia |
| As the Light Goes Out | Derek Kwok | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Ben Stiller | United Kingdom, United States |
| Belle and Sebastian | Nicolas Vanier | France |