| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Merchant of Venice | Michael Radford | United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Italy |
| Brothers | Susanne Bier | United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| The Violin | Francisco Vargas Quevedo | Mexico |
| Alfie | Charles Shyer | United Kingdom, United States |
| Edison | David J. Burke | Germany, United States |
| Angels in Fast Motion | Ole Christian Madsen | Denmark |
| Hostage | Konstantinos Giannaris | Greece, Turkey |
| Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Beyond the Sea | Kevin Spacey | Germany, United States |
| House of Sand and Fog | Vadim Perelman | United States |
| The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Elektra | Rob Bowman | United States |
| Frozen Land | Aku Louhimies | Finland |
| The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Wes Anderson | United States |
| Birth | Jonathan Glazer | Germany, United States |
| Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore | United States |
| Closer | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Alexander | Oliver Stone | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| Lovely Rivals | Jang Gyu-seong | South Korea |
| Ae Fond Kiss... | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| Shall We Dance? | Peter Chelsom | United States |
| The Hidden Blade | Yōji Yamada | Japan |
| Sideways | Alexander Payne | United States |
| The Door in the Floor | Kip Williams | United States |
| Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | United States |
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige, Paul Sirmons | United States |
| The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | United States |
| Man on Fire | Tony Scott | United States |
| Infernal Affairs III | Alan Mak, Andrew Lau | Hong Kong |
| Springtime | Ryu Jang-ha | South Korea |
| Up and Down | Jan Hřebejk | Czech Republic |
| Ostrov vozrozhdeniya | Rustem Abdrashev | Kazakhstan |
| Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany, Italy, Austria |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | People's Republic of China |
| Jerusalemski Sindrom | Dominik Sedlar, Jakov Sedlar | — |
| My Jealous Barber | Annette Sjursen | Norway |
| The Sea Inside | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
| Vanity Fair | Mira Nair | United Kingdom, United States |
| Trench Road | Veikko Aaltonen | Finland |
| Days and Hours | Pjer Žalica | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys | Kunihiko Yuyama | Japan |
| The Stepford Wives | Frank Oz | United States |
| Unforgotten | Aylin Baykal | United States |
| All My Life | Laurenti Dyogi | Philippines |
| Good Bye Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | Germany |