| Everything Will Be Fine | Christoffer Boe | France, Denmark |
| The Book of Eli | Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes | United States |
| Far Cry | Uwe Boll | Canada, Germany |
| Los Bandoleros | Vin Diesel | United States |
| Terminator Salvation | McG | United States |
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | United States |
| Gomorrah | Matteo Garrone | Italy |
| Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Patrick Tatopoulos | United States |
| Burn After Reading | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Chris Carter | Canada, United States |
| The Bank Job | Roger Donaldson | United Kingdom |
| Lake Mungo | — | Australia |
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | United States |
| L: Change the World | Hideo Nakata | Japan |
| Hitman | Xavier Gens | France, United States |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton | United Kingdom, United States |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Disturbia | D.J. Caruso | United States |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Germany, United States |
| War | Philip Atwell | United States |
| Fracture | Gregory Hoblit | United States |
| Spider-Man 3 | Sam Raimi | United States |
| Next | Lee Tamahori | United States |
| Sunshine | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, United States |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, United States, Italy |
| All the King's Men | Steven Zaillian | Germany, United States |
| Black Christmas | Glen Morgan | Canada, United States |
| The Covenant | Renny Harlin | United States |
| The Prestige | — | United Kingdom, United States |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| The Night of the Sunflowers | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | France, Spain, Portugal |
| Snakes on a Plane | David R. Ellis | United States |
| The swallow, the cat, the rose, death | Daniel Lind Lagerlöf | Sweden |
| Hostel | Eli Roth | Germany, Iceland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, United States |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, United States |
| The Fly II | Chris Walas | United States |
| The Devil's Rejects | Rob Zombie | Germany, United States |
| 9 | Shane Acker | United States |
| Creep | Christopher Smith | United Kingdom, Germany |
| One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan |
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | Germany, United States |
| The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Birth | Jonathan Glazer | Germany, United States |
| Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | United States |
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige, Paul Sirmons | United States |