| U Turn | Oliver Stone | France, United States |
| Beast Cops | Dante Lam, Gordon Chan | Hong Kong |
| The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone | Vladimir Bortko | Russia |
| Amistad | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Mad City | Costa-Gavras | United States |
| In That Land... | Lidia Bobrova | Russia |
| Tate's Voyage | Paula van der Oest | Netherlands |
| Free Willy 3: The Rescue | Sam Pillsbury | United States |
| Phantoms | Joe Chappelle | Japan, United States |
| Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Titanic | James Cameron | United States |
| The Boxer | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | United States |
| Snake Spring | Nikolai Lebedev | Russia |
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Tic Tac | Daniel Alfredson | Sweden |
| One Eight Seven | Kevin Reynolds | United States |
| Lolita | Adrian Lyne | France, United States |
| Eve's Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | United States |
| The Game | David Fincher | United States |
| Burnt by Frost | Knut Erik Jensen | Norway |
| Selma & Johanna - En roadmovie | Ingela Magner | Sweden |
| Kolya | Jan Svěrák | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic |
| Set It Off | F. Gary Gray | United States |
| Ghosts of Mississippi | Rob Reiner | United States |
| Long Twilight | Attila Janisch | Hungary |
| Emma | Douglas McGrath | United Kingdom, United States |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United Kingdom, United States |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | France, United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| That Thing You Do! | Tom Hanks | United States |
| Albino Alligator | Kevin Spacey | United States |
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | France, United States |
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| Beyond Silence | Caroline Link | Germany |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondō | Japan |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | United States |
| The Last of the High Kings | David Keating | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | France |
| A Time to Kill | Joel Schumacher | United States |
| Miss Nobody | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Sunchaser | Michael Cimino | United States |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | France |
| Faithful | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| The Scream of the Silk | Yvon Marciano | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
| Satyr | Michael Zen | United States |
| Phenomenon | Jon Turteltaub | United States |