| Garden State | Zach Braff | United States |
| Cold Showers | Antony Cordier | France |
| Buenos Aires 100 km | Pablo José Meza | France, Spain, Argentina |
| Look at Me | Agnès Jaoui | France, Italy |
| What a Girl Wants | Dennie Gordon | United States |
| Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| City of God | Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles | France, Brazil |
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook | United States |
| Spider-Man | Sam Raimi | United States |
| Baby Boy | John Singleton | United States |
| An American Rhapsody | Éva Gárdos | Hungary, United States |
| Say It Isn't So | J. B. Rogers | United States |
| Never Been Kissed | Raja Gosnell | United States |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | United States |
| She's All That | Robert Iscove | United States |
| The Mighty | Peter Chelsom | United States |
| Simon Birch | Mark Steven Johnson | United States |
| All I Wanna Do | Sarah Kernochan | Canada, United States, Italy |
| Can't Hardly Wait | Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont | United States |
| The Wounds | Srđan Dragojević | Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Good Will Hunting | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Beautiful Thing | Hettie MacDonald | United Kingdom |
| Now and Then | Lesli Linka Glatter | United States |
| A Goofy Movie | Kevin Lima | United States |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | Germany, New Zealand |
| Only You | Norman Jewison | United States, Italy |
| 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 |
| Josh and S.A.M. | Billy Weber | United States |
| School Ties | Robert Mandel | United States |
| My Girl | Howard Zieff | United States |
| Father of the Bride | Charles Shyer | United States |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | United States |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States |
| The Nutcracker Prince | Paul Schibli | Canada, United States |
| The Reflecting Skin | Philip Ridley | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | United States |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | Japan |
| Say Anything... | Cameron Crowe | United States |
| The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | Allan A. Goldstein | Canada |
| The Wizard of Loneliness | Jenny Bowen | United States |
| Can't Buy Me Love | Steve Rash | United States |
| School Daze | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Year My Voice Broke | John Duigan | Australia |