| Things We Lost in the Fire | Susanne Bier | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Disturbia | D.J. Caruso | United States |
| Salvador | Manuel Huerga | United Kingdom, Spain |
| Silk | François Girard | France, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Italy |
| The Nanny Diaries | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | United States |
| Merah Itu Cinta | Rako Prijanto | Indonesia |
| Chak De! India | Shimit Amin | India |
| This Is England | Shane Meadows | United Kingdom |
| Tainá: An Adventure in the Amazon | Tânia Lamarca, Sérgio Bloch | Brazil |
| 3 Hari untuk Selamanya | Riri Riza | Indonesia |
| Goal II: Living the Dream | Jaume Collet-Serra | United Kingdom, Spain |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
| The History Boys | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom |
| Spider-Man 3 | Sam Raimi | United States |
| Catch and Release | Susannah Grant | United States |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| The TV Set | Jake Kasdan | United States |
| The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Germany, Austria |
| Knocked Up | Judd Apatow | United States |
| Bobby | Emilio Estevez | United States |
| Empties | Jan Svěrák | United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Denmark |
| Becoming Jane | Julian Jarrold | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Gábor Csupó | United States |
| Eklavya: The Royal Guard | Vidhu Vinod Chopra | India |
| 88 Minutes | Jon Avnet | United States |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States, Italy |
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | United States |
| A Bee in August | Thodoris Atheridis | Greece |
| Girl by Girl | Park Dong-hoon | South Korea |
| Hounddog | Deborah Kampmeier | United States |
| Guru | Mani Ratnam | India |
| Freedom Writers | Richard LaGravenese | United States |
| All the King's Men | Steven Zaillian | Germany, United States |
| Notes on a Scandal | Richard Eyre | United Kingdom |
| Mystery of the Wolf | Raimo O. Niemi | United Kingdom, Finland |
| Cinta Pertama | Nayato Fio Nuala | Indonesia |
| If You Were Me 3 | Jeong Yun-cheol | South Korea |
| The Queen | Stephen Frears | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | Spain |
| The Prestige | — | United Kingdom, United States |
| Righteous Ties | Jang Jin | South Korea |
| Fur | Steven Shainberg | United States |
| Avenue Montaigne | Danièle Thompson | France |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| The Greatest Love of All | Carlos Diegues | Brazil |
| The Night of the Sunflowers | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | France, Spain, Portugal |
| Ice Bar | — | South Korea |