| The Purge: Anarchy | James DeMonaco | action film, horror film, dystopian film, thriller film |
| The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | drama film, adventure film |
| Sous les jupes des filles | Audrey Dana | comedy drama |
| Blood Ties | Guillaume Canet | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | mystery film, action film, thriller film, detective film, disaster film |
| The Past | Asghar Farhadi | drama film |
| Philomena | Stephen Frears | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | art film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Before the Winter Chill | Philippe Claudel | drama film |
| 16 ans... ou presque | Tristan Séguéla | comedy film |
| Le Cœur des hommes 3 | Marc Esposito | comedy film |
| Paranoia | Robert Luketic | drama film, thriller film |
| Eastern Boys | Robin Campillo | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Going Away | Nicole Garcia | drama film, comedy drama |
| Cannibal | Manuel Martín Cuenca | thriller film |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | drama film, spy film, thriller film |
| Miss and the Doctors | Axelle Ropert | comedy drama |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Thomas Imbach | drama film |
| Now You See Me | Louis Leterrier | heist film, crime film |
| The Conquerors | Xabi Molia | comedy film |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | drama film, musical film, comedy drama |
| Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian | Arnaud Desplechin | drama film |
| The Dance of Reality | Alejandro Jodorowsky | drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| La Maison de la radio | Nicolas Philibert | documentary film |
| Billy & Buddy | Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier | comedy film |
| On My Way | Emmanuelle Bercot | drama film, comedy film, road movie |
| Le monde nous appartient | Stephan Streker | drama film |
| Arrêtez-moi | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | flashback film, thriller film, crime film |
| Cookie | Léa Fazer | comedy drama |
| Des gens qui s'embrassent | Danièle Thompson | romantic comedy film |
| Red Wedding | Guillaume Suon, Lida Chan | documentary film |
| Porn in the Hood | Franck Gastambide | comedy film |
| 17 Girls | Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin | drama film |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux | Claude Miller | drama film |
| Polisse | Maïwenn | drama film, crime film |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Lasse Hallström | romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama |
| Delicacy | David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos | romance film, drama film, comedy film |
| Bel Ami | Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | drama film |
| The Kid with a Bike | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | drama film |
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Thierry Binisti | drama film |
| My Worst Nightmare | Anne Fontaine | romance film, drama film, comedy film |
| Carnage | Roman Polanski | comedy film, drama fiction, black comedy film |
| Forces spéciales | Stéphane Rybojad | drama film, war film |
| Inglorious Bitches | Max Candy | pornographic parody film, pornographic film, action film, war film |
| Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | romance film, art film, drama film |
| Attack the Block | Joe Cornish | coming-of-age film, monster film, comedy film, action film, comedy horror, alien invasion, science fiction film, hood film |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | mystery film, drama film, spy film, thriller film, detective film |
| Blitz | Elliott Lester | action film, crime thriller film, thriller film |