| About Cherry | Stephen Elliott | drama film | United States |
| Quantum of Solace | Marc Forster | action film, spy film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Igby Goes Down | Burr Steers | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Evelyn | Bruce Beresford | drama film | United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | romance film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, romantic horror film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, crime fiction +2 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Richard III | Richard Loncraine | drama film, dystopian film | United Kingdom |
| Teachers | Arthur Hiller | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Red Dawn | John Milius | coming-of-age film, action film, propaganda film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, disaster film | United States |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | music documentary film, concert film | United States |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | drama film | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| The Offence | Sidney Lumet | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Melvin Frank | comedy film, farce, war film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | drama film, prison film, biographical film | United States |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United States |
| Black Tuesday | Hugo Fregonese | — | — |
| Limelight | Charlie Chaplin | — | — |
| Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, Italy |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | — | mystery film, drama film, comedy film, melodrama, detective film, heist film | United States |
| Mad Dog Time | Larry Bishop | buddy film | United States |
| Lord of Illusions | Clive Barker | fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir | United States |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | drama film, road movie | Canada |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | comedy film | United States |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | romance film, drama film | France, United States |
| Hair | Miloš Forman | drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Network | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy film, drama film, satirical film, comedy film, black comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Born to Win | Ivan Passer | comedy drama | United States |
| Città violenta | Sergio Sollima | drama film, neo-noir | France, Italy |
| The McKenzie Break | Lamont Johnson | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | action film, spy film, thriller film, Christmas film, adventure film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Devil's Brigade | Andrew V. McLaglen | action film, war film | United States |
| Death Rides a Horse | Giulio Petroni | Spaghetti Western | Italy |
| The Thief of Paris | Louis Malle | heist film, crime film | France, Italy |
| You Only Live Twice | Lewis Gilbert | action film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film, ninja film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Train | John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | drama film, action film, thriller film, war film | France, United States, Italy |
| Paris Blues | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | drama film, trial film | United States |
| Solomon and Sheba | King Vidor | drama film | United States |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| The Pride and the Passion | Stanley Kramer | — | — |
| Trapeze | Carol Reed | drama film | United States |
| The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | science fiction film | United States |
| Impact | Arthur Lubin | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Strange Woman | Edgar G. Ulmer | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Story of G.I. Joe | William A. Wellman | drama film, war film, biographical film | United States |
| Lady of Burlesque | William A. Wellman | mystery film, comedy film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Document Z-3 | Alfredo Guarini | spy film | Italy |
| Silver Queen | Lloyd Bacon | Western film | United States |
| A Chump at Oxford | Alfred J. Goulding | comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| Captain Fury | Hal Roach | bushranging film, Western film | United States |
| They Shall Have Music | Archie Mayo | comedy film | United States |
| Algiers | John Cromwell | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Wedding Night | King Vidor | — | — |