| Pumpkin | Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Laramie Project | Moisés Kaufman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| Regina | María Sigurðardóttir | family film, musical film | Canada, Germany, Iceland, Norway |
| Jeepers Creepers | Victor Salva | teen film, monster film, horror film, slasher film | Germany, United States |
| Rock Star | Stephen Herek | drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Zoolander | Ben Stiller | comedy film | Germany, United States |
| Big Shot's Funeral | Feng Xiaogang | satirical film, comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Woody Allen | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| I Am Sam | Jessie Nelson | drama film, comedy film, trial film | United States |
| Nothing More | Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti | comedy film | Cuba, Italy |
| Holiday in the Sun | Steve Purcell | teen film, comedy film | United States |
| Ass Worship | Jules Jordan, Joey Silvera | pornographic film | United States |
| Volkspolizei / 1985 | Thomas Heise | documentary film | East Germany |
| Slikta vieta | Jānis Vingris | — | Latvia |
| The Last Castle | Rod Lurie | drama film, action film, thriller film, prison film | United States |
| Edges of the Lord | Yurek Bogayevicz | drama film, war film, historical drama | United States, Poland |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | mystery film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| Under the Sand | François Ozon | drama film | France |
| The City of Lost Children | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro | arthouse science fiction film, fantasy film, dystopian film, science fiction film, steampunk film | France, Germany, Spain |
| Ayurveda - Art of Being | Pan Nalin | documentary film | Germany, Switzerland, India |
| How I Killed My Father | Anne Fontaine | drama film, thriller film | France, Spain |
| The Riding School | Mike Beck | pornographic film | Sweden |
| Knockaround Guys | Brian Koppelman, David Levien | drama film, action film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Kites Over Helsinki | Peter Lindholm | drama film, historical film | Finland |
| A Knight's Tale | Brian Helgeland | romance film, knight film, comedy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Syndare i sommarsol | Daniel Alfredson | drama film | Sweden |
| Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Planet of the Apes | Tim Burton | time-travel film, post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Legend of Zu | Tsui Hark | fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| The Princess Diaries | Garry Marshall | teen film, comedy film, children's film, coming-of-age fiction, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Osmosis Jones | Peter Farrelly, Piet Kroon, Tom Sito, Bobby Farrelly | comedy film, action film, children's film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | romance film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | drama film | France, United Kingdom |
| All the Pretty Horses | Billy Bob Thornton | drama film | United States |
| One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald | documentary film, crime film | United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland |
| Africano | Amr Arafa | comedy film, adventure film | Egypt |
| Pokémon 4Ever | Kunihiko Yuyama | children's film, adventure film | Japan |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Hironobu Sakaguchi | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | Japan, United States |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Steven Spielberg | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film | United States |
| Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | romance film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Simon West | fantasy film, girls with guns, action film, treasure hunt film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Monkeybone | Henry Selick | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Baby Boy | John Singleton | coming-of-age film, romance film, drama film, hood film, crime film | United States |
| The Fast and the Furious | Rob Cohen | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| The Replacements | Howard Deutch | American football film, comedy film | United States |
| An American Rhapsody | Éva Gárdos | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Hungary, United States |
| Bully | Larry Clark | teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, rape and revenge film, independent film, crime film | France, United States |
| Say It Isn't So | J. B. Rogers | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, black comedy film | United States |