| The Theory of Flight | Paul Greengrass | United Kingdom |
| Doug's 1st Movie | Maurice Joyce | United States |
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Barber of Siberia | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia, United States, Italy |
| The Mighty | Peter Chelsom | United States |
| Can't Hardly Wait | Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont | United States |
| No Looking Back | Edward Burns | United States |
| The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | United States |
| Eggs | Bent Hamer | Norway |
| The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | United Kingdom, United States |
| Career Girls | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Striptease | Andrew Bergman | United States |
| Roommates | Peter Yates | United States |
| The American President | Rob Reiner | United States |
| To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman | France, United States |
| Summer Snow | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
| The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | Maria Maggenti | United States |
| Camilla | Deepa Mehta | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | Australia |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| There Goes My Baby | Floyd Mutrux | United States |
| A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | United States |
| Crooklyn | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Inkwell | Matty Rich | United States |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Six Degrees of Separation | Fred Schepisi | United States |
| Josh and S.A.M. | Billy Weber | United States |
| The Land of Happiness | Markku Pölönen | Finland |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | France, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Italy |
| Sarafina! | Darrell Roodt | France, South Africa, United States |
| City Slickers | Ron Underwood | United States |
| Late for Dinner | W. D. Richter | United States |
| Get Thee Out | Dmitry Astrakhan | Soviet Union |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose Is an Emblem of Love | Sergei Solovyov | Soviet Union |
| A Tale of Springtime | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Steel Magnolias | Herbert Ross | United States |
| Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | United States |
| Madame Sousatzka | John Schlesinger | United Kingdom, United States |
| See You in the Morning | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | Allan A. Goldstein | Canada |
| School Daze | Spike Lee | United States |
| Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | United States |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Radio Days | Woody Allen | United States |
| My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | Sweden |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |