| Curzio Malaparte | Jean-Paul Fargier | documentary film | France |
| Dangerous Ground | Darrell Roodt | action film, crime film | South Africa, United States |
| Dante's Peak | Roger Donaldson | drama film, action film, adventure film, disaster film | United States |
| Def Jam's How to Be a Player | Lionel C. Martin | comedy film | United States |
| Deti ponedelnika | Alla Surikova | comedy film | Russia |
| Dil To Pagal Hai | Yash Chopra | romance film, drama film, romantic comedy | India |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | crime drama film, drama film, crime thriller film, thriller film, biographical film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| Excess Baggage | Marco Brambilla | comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Facciamo fiesta | Angelo Longoni | comedy film | Italy |
| Fire Down Below | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Fireworks | Leonardo Pieraccioni | comedy film | Italy |
| Fools Rush In | Andy Tennant | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| For those eyes | Gonzalo Arijón, Virginia Martínez | documentary film | Uruguay |
| Four Women of Egypt | Tahani Rached | drama film, documentary film | Canada |
| Francorusse | Alexis Miansarow | — | France |
| Gattaca | Andrew Niccol | biopunk, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States |
| Grötbögen | Bengt Johansen | drama film | Sweden |
| Gypsy Magic | Stole Popov | melodrama, comedy drama | North Macedonia |
| In the Company of Men | Neil LaBute | drama film | Canada, United States |
| Keys to Tulsa | Leslie Greif | drama film, action film, crime film | United States |
| Kiler | Juliusz Machulski | comedy film | Poland |
| Killers | David Michael Latt | horror film | United States |
| Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu | Kamal | romance film, drama film | India |
| Larry & Steve | Seth MacFarlane | — | United States |
| Liar Liar | Tom Shadyac | trial film, fantasy comedy film | United States |
| Life is All You Get | Wolfgang Becker | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Little Tropikana | Daniel Díaz Torres | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | Germany, Cuba, Spain |
| Love and Death on Long Island | Richard Kwietniowski | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Made in Hong Kong (1997) | Luc Schaedler | documentary film | Switzerland |
| Mange ta soupe | Mathieu Amalric | comedy drama | France |
| Mayar Badhon | Swapan Saha | — | India |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, Christmas film, crime film | United States |
| Mouse Hunt | Gore Verbinski | family film, fantasy film, comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| No Names on the Doors | Nadav Levitan | drama film | Israel |
| Once Upon a Time in China and America | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film, biographical film | Hong Kong |
| One Life and Two Trails | Alberto Arvelo | drama film | Venezuela |
| One Night Stand | Mike Figgis | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Pater Familias | Nikos Perakis | comedy film | Greece |
| Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | police procedural film, mystery film, thriller film | Japan |
| Poison Ivy: The New Seduction | Kurt Voss | teen film, erotic thriller, erotic film | United States |
| Por Si No Te Vuelvo a Ver | Juan Pablo Villaseñor | musical film | Mexico |
| Private Parts | Betty Thomas | comedy film, biographical film | United States |
| Red Corner | Jon Avnet | mystery film, thriller film, trial film, crime film | United States |
| Selena | Gregory Nava | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Shaman | Lennart Meri | documentary film | Estonia |
| Spaceman | Scott Dikkers | science fiction film, science fiction comedy | — |
| Suzaku | Naomi Kawase | drama film | Japan |
| The 6th Man | Randall Miller | basketball film, comedy film, ghost film | United States |