| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States |
| Chinna Chinna Kannile | Ameerjan | India |
| The Monkey's Mask | Samantha Lang | France, Canada, Japan, Italy, Australia |
| Waking the Dead | Keith Gordon | United States |
| Jill Rips | Anthony Hickox | United States |
| Running Out of Time | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| The Insider | — | United States |
| The Lost Son | Chris Menges, Mark Mills | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| American Dragons | Ralph Hemecker | United States |
| Full Moon | Fredi M. Murer | France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Misbegotten | Mark L. Lester | United States |
| The Longest Nite | Patrick Yau, Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | United States |
| Fire Down Below | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | United States |
| Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | Japan |
| Red Corner | Jon Avnet | United States |
| The Devil's Advocate | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| The Peacemaker | Mimi Leder | United States |
| The Wax Mask | Sergio Stivaletti | France, Italy |
| Turbulence | Robert Butler | United States |
| Chain Reaction | Andrew Davis | United States |
| The Arrival | — | United States, Mexico |
| The Glimmer Man | John Gray | United States |
| The Substitute | Robert Mandel | United States |
| Illegal in Blue | Stu Segall | United States |
| Pentathlon | Bruce Malmuth | United States |
| The Childhood Friend | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Specialist | Luis Llosa | United States |
| Body Snatchers | Abel Ferrara | United States |
| Hard Target | John Woo | United States |
| Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence | Joel Soisson, William Lustig | United States |
| Sliver | Phillip Noyce | United States |
| Striking Distance | Rowdy Herrington | United States |
| Taking the Heat | Tom Mankiewicz | United States |
| The Flight of the Innocent | Carlo Carlei | France, Italy |
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | United States |
| When I Close My Eyes | Franci Slak | Slovenia |
| Jennifer 8 | Bruce Robinson | United States |
| Backdraft | Ron Howard | United States |
| Dude - Water Winner | Arkady Tigay | Soviet Union |
| Time of Darkness | Vladimir Alenikov | Soviet Union |
| The Palermo Connection | Francesco Rosi | France, Italy |
| Ubiytsa | Sergey Martyanov | Soviet Union |
| Accidents | Gideon Amir | France, South Africa, United States |
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | United States |
| Hitcher In The Dark | Umberto Lenzi | United States, Italy |
| Fair Game | Mario Orfini | Italy |
| La Maison assassinée | Georges Lautner | France |