| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Beeban Kidron | United States |
| Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | France, United States |
| Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives | Lynne Fernie | Canada |
| The Brady Bunch Movie | Betty Thomas | United States |
| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Tom Shadyac | United States |
| Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | United States |
| Paris, France | Jerry Ciccoritti | Canada |
| Cap Tourmente | Michel Langlois | Canada |
| The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | United States, Taiwan |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | United States |
| Poison | Todd Haynes | United States |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| The World According to Garp | George Roy Hill | United States |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| Mike's Murder | James Bridges | United States |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | United States |
| Female Cats | Shingo Yamashiro | Japan |
| Private School | Noel Black | United States |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| Drum | Steve Carver | United States |
| Pixote | Héctor Babenco | Brazil |
| ...And Justice for All | Norman Jewison | United States |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse | United States |
| Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker | United Kingdom |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer | United States |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| Women in Love | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
| Justine | Joseph Strick, George Cukor | United States |
| Calamity Jane | David Butler | United States |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| Anna and Elizabeth | Frank Wisbar | Germany |
| The Silent Generation | — | Spain |
| Brief Story from the Green Planet | Santiago Loza | Brazil, Germany, Spain, Argentina |
| Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts | — | United States |
| Evening Shadows | Sridhar Rangayan | India |
| Man in an Orange Shirt | Michael Samuels | United Kingdom |
| Nobody's Watching | Julia Solomonoff | France, Brazil, Spain, United States, Argentina, Colombia |
| Kapoor & Sons | Shakun Batra | India |
| King Cobra | Justin Kelly | United States |
| Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution | Jon Alpert | United States |
| Aligarh | Hansal Mehta | India |
| Freeheld | Peter Sollett | United States |
| Stonewall | Roland Emmerich | United States |
| The Amina Profile | Sophie Deraspe | Canada |
| Date and Switch | Chris Nelson | United States |