| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | France, Australia |
| Pump Up the Volume | Allan Moyle | Canada, United States |
| One Good Cop | Heywood Gould | United States |
| Anna Karamazoff | Rustam Khamdamov | France, Soviet Union |
| Uncle Buck | John Hughes | United States |
| Virdžina | Srđan Karanović | Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| The Five Heartbeats | Robert Townsend | United States |
| Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Flirting | John Duigan | Australia |
| The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Nikita | Luc Besson | France, Italy |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| Bak sju hav | Espen Thorstenson, Saeed Anjum | Norway |
| Whit Monday | Sergey Selyanov | Soviet Union |
| Everybody's Fine | Giuseppe Tornatore | France, Italy |
| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | United States |
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | United States |
| Cloud-Paradise | Nikolay Dostal | Soviet Union |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Pueblo de madera | Juan Antonio de la Riva | Spain, Mexico |
| Darkman | Sam Raimi | United States |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Do It – One! | Andrei Malyukov | Soviet Union |
| Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | United States |
| Mo' Better Blues | Spike Lee | United States |
| Freeze Die Come to Life | Vitali Kanevsky | Soviet Union |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | United States |
| Weininger's Last Night | Paulus Manker | Germany, Austria |
| The Reflecting Skin | Philip Ridley | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Heart Condition | James D. Parriott | United States |
| Clean and Sober | Glenn Gordon Caron | United States |
| Trace of Stones | Frank Beyer | East Germany |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| The Juniper Tree | Nietzchka Keene | Iceland |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | United States |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | United States |
| A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | Soviet Union, Germany, Switzerland |
| Meteo | András Mész | Hungary |
| An Enemy of the People | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1939 | Göran Carmback | Sweden |
| The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito | United States |
| Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Claude Lelouch | France, Germany |
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Waltzing Regitze | Kaspar Rostrup | Denmark |
| It Happened Near the Sea | Ayan Shakhmaliyeva | Soviet Union |
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | France, Denmark, Poland |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steve Kloves | United States |