| Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom |
| The Miracle in Valby | Åke Sandgren | Sweden, Denmark |
| The Birth of New China | Li Qiankuan, Xiao Guiyun | People's Republic of China |
| Homeboy | Michael Seresin | United States |
| Kerosene Salesman's Wife | Alexander Kaidanovsky | Soviet Union |
| The Abyss | James Cameron | United States |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | Japan |
| The Karate Kid Part III | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| Evil Angels | Fred Schepisi | United States, Australia |
| Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | France, Canada |
| Everybody's All-American | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| Cold Summer of 1953 | Aleksandr Proshkin | Soviet Union |
| The Lonely Spirit In An Old Building | Mu Deyuan | China |
| Homebound | Ilkka Järvi-Laturi | Finland |
| Landscape in the Mist | Thodoros Angelopoulos | France, Italy, Greece |
| Monkey Shines | George A. Romero | United States |
| A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| Camino largo a Tijuana | Luis Estrada | Mexico |
| Mister Designer | Oleg Teptsov | Soviet Union |
| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | Norway |
| The Good Mother | Leonard Nimoy | United States |
| Police | Catherine Breillat, Maurice Pialat | France |
| The Striker with Number 9 | Pantelis Voulgaris | Greece |
| The Presidio | Peter Hyams | United States |
| Stealing Home | William Porter, Steven Kampmann | United States |
| Katinka | Max von Sydow | Sweden, Denmark |
| Ashik Kerib | Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| Pereprava | Viktor Turov, Marek Brodzki | Soviet Union, Poland |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | United States |
| The Last Tunnel | Servando González | Mexico |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | United States |
| Love Is the Ruin of Us All | Jože Gale | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Sala nr 6 | Krzysztof Gruber | Poland |
| The Lonely Voice of Man | Alexander Sokurov | Soviet Union |
| Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| Dead Man's Letters | Konstantin Lopushansky | Soviet Union |
| Zegen | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
| The Aggression | Theodor Kotulla | Germany |
| The World According to Garp | George Roy Hill | United States |
| Tomorrow Was the War | Yuri Kara | Soviet Union |
| Benji the Hunted | Joe Camp | United States |
| Zhmenyaky | Alfred Shestopalov | Soviet Union |
| Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | France, Denmark |
| The Feldmann Case | Bente Erichsen | Norway |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |