| All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | transgender film, comedy drama |
| Masquerade (L'empreinte du vice) | Marc Dorcel | pornographic film |
| The Barber of Siberia | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, historical film, comedy drama |
| Hanuman | Frédéric Fougea | family film, adventure film |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| Train of Life | Radu Mihăileanu | drama film, comedy film |
| Cabaret Balkan | Goran Paskaljević | drama film |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | Erick Zonca | drama film |
| U Turn | Oliver Stone | romantic comedy film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| An American Werewolf in Paris | Anthony Waller | comedy film, comedy horror, werewolf film |
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, crime film |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | romance film, drama film |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | romance film, art film, drama film |
| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Drifting Clouds | Aki Kaurismäki | drama film, comedy film |
| Seasick | Veikko Aaltonen | drama film, thriller film |
| Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, sexploitation film, erotic film, musical film |
| Underground | Emir Kusturica | drama film, comedy film, tragicomedy, war film |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, thriller film, biographical film, epic film, gangster film, crime film |
| Assassins | Richard Donner | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Death and the Maiden | Roman Polanski | mystery film, drama film, rape and revenge film |
| Asterix Conquers America | Gerhard Hahn | family film, comedy film, adventure film |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama |
| Stargate | Roland Emmerich | action film, science fiction film |
| Revenge of the Musketeers | Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda | comedy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, buddy film, gangster film, crime film |
| The Queen of the Night | Arturo Ripstein | drama film |
| Anna: 6 - 18 | Nikita Mikhalkov | experimental film, documentary film |
| Fiorile | Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani | drama film |
| True Romance | Tony Scott | romance film, drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Playtime | Claire Simon | documentary film |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | drama film, tragicomedy, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | drama film, dystopian film, biographical film |
| Sarafina! | Darrell Roodt | drama film, musical film, comedy drama |
| Dien Bien Phu | Pierre Schoendoerffer | war film |
| An Independent Life | Vitali Kanevsky | drama film, historical drama |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | drama film, biographical film |
| Venus and Lulu | Daniel Losset | comedy film |
| Highlander II: The Quickening | Russell Mulcahy | fantasy film, cyberpunk, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film |
| A Tale of Springtime | Éric Rohmer | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama |
| Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophuls | documentary film |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | comedy film, historical film |
| The Possessed | Andrzej Wajda | drama film |
| The Gold Rimmed Glasses | Giuliano Montaldo | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | drama film, fantasy film |
| The Family | Ettore Scola | drama film |
| Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | drama film, biographical film |