| Heaven's Prisoners | Phil Joanou | United States |
| Eraser | Chuck Russell | United States |
| Corset | — | South Korea |
| Diabolique | Jeremiah S. Chechik | United States |
| Pretty Village, Pretty Flame | Srđan Dragojević | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Portland | Niels Arden Oplev | Denmark |
| The Brothers Lionheart | Olle Hellbom | Sweden |
| Richard III | Richard Loncraine | United Kingdom |
| The Dream Prince | Ella Lemhagen | Sweden |
| The Hunters | Kjell Sundvall | Sweden |
| Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | France, United States |
| The American President | Rob Reiner | United States |
| Dolores Claiborne | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| Benjamin Due | Gísli Snær Erlingsson | Germany, Iceland, Sweden |
| Beyond the Clouds | Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni | France, Germany, Italy |
| Hotel y domicilio | Ernesto del Río | Spain |
| To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Apollo 13 | Ron Howard | United States |
| The Strangers in Beijing | He Qun | People's Republic of China |
| How to Make an American Quilt | Jocelyn Moorhouse | United States |
| Angus | Patrick Read Johnson | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Jefferson in Paris | James Ivory | France, United States |
| Deathmaker | Romuald Karmakar | Germany |
| Brothers in Trouble | Udayan Prasad | United Kingdom |
| The Lion King | Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers | United States |
| Beyond Rangoon | John Boorman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Dos crímenes | Roberto Sneider | Mexico |
| Half the World | Florian Flicker | Austria |
| Mom Has a New Boyfriend | — | South Korea |
| Silent Fall | Bruce Beresford | United States |
| Fear of Heights | Houchang Allahyari | Austria |
| Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book | Stephen Sommers | United States |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | France, Italy |
| Like It Never Was Before | Susanne Bier | Sweden, Denmark |
| Quiz Show | Robert Redford | United States |
| En medio de la nada | Hugo Rodríguez | Mexico |
| Swimming with Sharks | George Huang | United States |
| There Goes My Baby | Floyd Mutrux | United States |
| Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | United States |
| The Next Karate Kid | Christopher Cain | United States |
| Wolf | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Geronimo: An American Legend | Walter Hill | United States |
| Ladybird, Ladybird | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | United States |
| The Chongqing Negotiation | Li Qiankuan, Zhang Yifei, Xiao Guiyun | People's Republic of China |
| The Good Son | Joseph Ruben | United States |
| Sakthivel | K. S. Ravikumar | India |