| Silent Friend | Ildikó Enyedi | drama film | France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong |
| The Teachers' Lounge | İlker Çatak | drama film | Germany |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | drama film, comedy film | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Turkey |
| LenaLove | Florian Gaag | drama film, thriller film | Germany |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Germany, Sweden, Denmark |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| The Flying Classroom | Tomy Wigand | comedy film, children's film | Germany |
| Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | drama film | France, Germany, Romania |
| Luna Papa | Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov | tragicomedy, comedy drama | France, Russia, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Tajikistan |
| The Gamblers | Dominik Graf | comedy film | Germany |
| A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film | Soviet Union, Germany, Switzerland |
| The Aggression | Theodor Kotulla | drama film | Germany |
| Karnabal | Carles Mira | comedy film | Spain |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Palestrina - principles of music | Georg Brintrup | musical film | Germany, Italy |
| The Wind Journeys | Ciro Guerra | drama film | Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Colombia |
| Halbwertszeiten | Irina Kosean | documentary film | Germany |
| A Visit to the Louvre | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | documentary film | Italy |
| Blue Skin | Andrea Schuler, Oliver Ruts | documentary film | Germany |
| The Idiots | Lars von Trier | drama film, comedy film | France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands |
| Madame Butterfly | Frédéric Mitterrand | drama film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea | Karen Gevorkian | drama film | Soviet Union, Germany |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, medieval film, crime film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Il lungo inverno | Ivo Barnabò Micheli | drama film | Italy, West Germany |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | drama film | Italy |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Germany, Sweden |