| The Devil's Deal | Lee Won-tae | South Korea |
| The Man Standing Next | Woo Min-ho | South Korea |
| Uriyadi 2 | Vijay Kumar | India |
| Kodi | R. S. Durai Senthilkumar | India |
| Desha: The Leader | Saikat Nasir | Bangladesh |
| Argo | — | United States |
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | United States |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | United States |
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | France, Canada, United States |
| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | Germany, United States, Mexico |
| In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | United States |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | United States |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | United Kingdom |
| The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | United States |
| The Osterman Weekend | Sam Peckinpah | United States |
| Omen III: The Final Conflict | Graham Baker | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Topaz | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | United Kingdom |
| The Company You Keep | Robert Redford | United States |
| Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | United States |
| Sivaji | S. Shankar | India |
| Death of a President | Gabriel Range | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Sentinel | Clark Johnson | United States |
| Proof of Life | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| Thirteen Days | Roger Donaldson | United States |
| Mudhalvan | S. Shankar | India |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | United States |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | Germany, United States |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| The Kremlin Letter | John Huston | United States |
| Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | United States |