| Titanic | James Cameron | United States |
| The Boxer | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | United States |
| Snake Spring | Nikolai Lebedev | Russia |
| Lolita | Adrian Lyne | France, United States |
| American Bet | Dmitry Meskhiev | Russia |
| Gone with the Train | Igor Šterk | Slovenia |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United Kingdom, United States |
| Adam & Eva | Måns Herngren, Hannes Holm | Sweden |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | France, United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondō | Japan |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | United States |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | France |
| Satyr | Michael Zen | United States |
| Phenomenon | Jon Turteltaub | United States |
| The Dream Prince | Ella Lemhagen | Sweden |
| Beyond the Clouds | Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni | France, Germany, Italy |
| How to Make an American Quilt | Jocelyn Moorhouse | United States |
| Chungking Express | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Randa Haines | United States |
| Indecent Proposal | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | France, Australia, New Zealand |
| Beauty and the Beast | Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale | United States |
| Lost in Siberia | Alexander Mitta | United Kingdom, Soviet Union |
| The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | United States |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | United States |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States |
| Flirting | John Duigan | Australia |
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | United States |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | United States |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steve Kloves | United States |
| The Karate Kid Part III | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| The Good Mother | Leonard Nimoy | United States |
| Katinka | Max von Sydow | Sweden, Denmark |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| A Slave of Love | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | France, Denmark |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| Along the main street with orchestra | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union |
| Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | United States |
| The Natural | Barry Levinson | United States |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | Soviet Union |
| Sahara | Andrew V. McLaglen | United Kingdom, United States |