| Orphans | Peter Mullan | United Kingdom |
| Oru Maravathoor Kanavu | Lal Jose | India |
| The Players Club | Ice Cube | United States |
| Auguri professore | Riccardo Milani | Italy |
| Going All the Way | Mark Pellington | United States |
| Gypsy Magic | Stole Popov | North Macedonia |
| Mange ta soupe | Mathieu Amalric | France |
| The Crazy Stranger | Tony Gatlif | France |
| Big Bully | Steve Miner | United States |
| Bits and Pieces | Antonello Grimaldi | Italy |
| Freeway | Matthew Bright | United States |
| Girl 6 | Spike Lee | United States |
| Mother | Albert Brooks | United States |
| Mrs. Winterbourne | Richard Benjamin | United States |
| Swingers | Doug Liman | United States |
| The Apartment | Gilles Mimouni | France, Spain, Italy |
| The Dress | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands |
| The Harmonious Couple | Zhang Gang | People's Republic of China |
| Friday | F. Gary Gray | United States |
| Something to Talk About | Lasse Hallström | United States |
| Go Fish | Rose Troche | United States |
| The Promise | Margarethe von Trotta | France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Airborne | Rob Bowman | United States |
| Heart and Souls | Ron Underwood | United States |
| The Snapper | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | United States |
| My Mother's Castle | Yves Robert | France |
| Decalogue X | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Harlem Nights | Eddie Murphy | United States |
| It | Sergey Ovcharov | Soviet Union |
| Dead Solid Perfect | Bobby Roth | United States |
| Full Moon in Blue Water | Peter Masterson | United States |
| The Prince of Pennsylvania | Ron Nyswaner | United States |
| Things Change | David Mamet | United States |
| Tin Men | Barry Levinson | United States |
| A Zed & Two Noughts | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| Fandango | Kevin Reynolds | United States |
| Jagode u grlu | Srđan Karanović | Yugoslavia |
| My Sweet Little Village | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Love and Pigeons | Vladimir Menshov | Soviet Union |
| Offered for Singles | Samson Samsonov | Soviet Union |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | United States |
| Édith et Marcel | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Author! Author! | Arthur Hiller | United States |
| Les | Vladimir Motyl | Soviet Union |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Mark Zakharov | Soviet Union |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | United States |
| Kader Bağlayınca | Orhan Aksoy | Turkey |