| Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | United States |
| The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | United States |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | United Kingdom, Luxembourg |
| Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Guy Ferland | United States |
| Stratosphere Girl | Matthias X. Oberg | France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands |
| The Dreamers | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Mona Lisa Smile | Mike Newell | United States |
| The Human Stain | Robert Benton | France, Germany, United States |
| His Brother | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| Jet Lag | Danièle Thompson | France |
| Roads to Koktebel | Alexei Popogrebski, Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
| Sangee | Haranath Chakraborty | India |
| All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | France, United Kingdom |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Kevin Reynolds | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Dragonfly | Tom Shadyac | United States |
| Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| My Beautiful Days | — | South Korea |
| Italian for Beginners | Lone Scherfig | Sweden, Denmark |
| Glitter | Vondie Curtis-Hall | United States |
| The Claim | Michael Winterbottom | France, United Kingdom, Canada |
| Original Sin | Michael Cristofer | United States, Mexico |
| Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | United States |
| Summertime | Park Jae-ho | South Korea |
| Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | United States, Australia |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| Save the Last Dance | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Quills | Philip Kaufman | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | People's Republic of China, United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| El cielo abierto | Miguel Albaladejo | Spain |
| Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool | Canada |
| A Midsummer Night's Cream | Stuart Canterbury | United States |
| Autumn in New York | Joan Chen | United States |
| August 32nd on Earth | Denis Villeneuve | Canada |
| If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Anne Heche | United States |
| Hanging Up | Diane Keaton | United States |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Sex Shot | Antonio Adamo | Sweden, Italy |
| Outside Providence | Michael Corrente | United States |
| Fly Me to Polaris | Jingle Ma | Hong Kong |
| Mifune's Last Song | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Sweden, Denmark |
| Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | United States |
| Crossroads | Dmitry Astrakhan | Russia, Belarus |
| Show Me Love | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark |
| Firelight | William Nicholson | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Secrets of Kamasutra | John Millerman | Spain |
| The Wings of the Dove | Iain Softley | United Kingdom, United States |