| Gunnar Goes Comfortable | Gunnar Hall Jensen | Norway |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | Canada, Germany, United States |
| The Soul Keeper | Roberto Faenza | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Ali | — | United States |
| An American Rhapsody | Éva Gárdos | Hungary, United States |
| Vatel | Roland Joffé | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Men of Honor | George Tillman, Jr. | United States |
| Taurus | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| Remember the Titans | Boaz Yakin | United States |
| I Dreamed of Africa | Hugh Hudson | United States |
| Badding | Markku Pölönen | Finland |
| Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Anna and the King | Andy Tennant | United States |
| Angela's Ashes | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| The Straight Story | David Lynch | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| A Love Divided | Syd Macartney | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | France, United Kingdom |
| Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond | United States |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | France, United States |
| Frank and Ollie | Theodore Thomas | United States |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | Germany, New Zealand |
| Wyatt Earp | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| Crooklyn | Spike Lee | United States |
| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Tombstone | Kevin Jarre, George P. Cosmatos | United States |
| A Brief History of Time | Errol Morris | United States |
| Hoffa | Danny DeVito | United States |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | France, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Italy |
| Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | France, United States |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | France, Australia |
| Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Steve Miner | United States |
| To Be Number One | Poon Man-kit | Hong Kong |
| Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | United States |
| Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | United States, Italy |
| The Slim Dusty Movie | Rob Stewart | Australia |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | Canada, United States |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | Soviet Union |
| Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky | Aleksandr Zarkhi | Soviet Union |