| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Fearless | Peter Weir | United States |
| Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | United States |
| Boiling Point | James B. Harris | United States |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Randa Haines | United States |
| Passion Fish | John Sayles | United States |
| This Boy's Life | Michael Caton-Jones | United States |
| Spring of Joy | Richard Hobert | Sweden |
| Rising Sun | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Naked | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Country Teachers | He Qun | People's Republic of China |
| My Soul Brother | Mariano Barroso | Spain |
| Paris, France | Jerry Ciccoritti | Canada |
| Three Colours: Blue | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France, United Kingdom, Poland, Switzerland |
| A Far Off Place | Mikael Salomon | United States |
| The Dark Half | George A. Romero | United States |
| Red Rock West | John Dahl | United States |
| In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | United States |
| Waterland | Stephen Gyllenhaal | United Kingdom |
| Blood In Blood Out | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| Indecent Proposal | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | France, Australia, New Zealand |
| Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Cap Tourmente | Michel Langlois | Canada |
| The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | United States, Taiwan |
| A Few Good Men | Rob Reiner | United States |
| The Muppet Christmas Carol | Brian Henson | United States |
| The Lover | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Vietnam |
| Howards End | James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| Of Mice and Men | Gary Sinise | United States |
| Descendants of Confucius | Wu Yigong | People's Republic of China |
| Folks! | Ted Kotcheff | United States |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | United States |
| Dreams of Russia | Junya Satō | Russia |
| The Mambo Kings | Arne Glimcher | France, United States |
| Lost in Siberia | Alexander Mitta | United Kingdom, Soviet Union |
| Paradise | Mary Agnes Donoghue | United States |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster | United States |
| Riff-Raff | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| Byttinger | Sigve Endresen | Norway |
| The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | United States |
| Bugsy | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Poison | Todd Haynes | United States |
| The Assassin of the Tsar | Karen Shakhnazarov | United Kingdom, Soviet Union |
| The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | United States |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | United States |