| Running Scared | Wayne Kramer | Germany, United States |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | United States |
| Four Brothers | John Singleton | United States |
| Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake | Martin Asphaug | Sweden |
| Lord of War | Andrew Niccol | Germany, United States |
| Pusher II | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark |
| Millions | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom |
| The Big White | Mark Mylod | Canada, United States |
| Online Murder | Masoud Abparvar | Iran |
| Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| The Tuner | Kira Muratova | Russia, Ukraine |
| Angels in Fast Motion | Ole Christian Madsen | Denmark |
| Be Cool | F. Gary Gray | United States |
| Hostage | Konstantinos Giannaris | Greece, Turkey |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | France, Germany, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory, Netherlands, Israel |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | France, United States |
| 36 Quai des Orfèvres | Olivier Marchal | France, Italy |
| Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | United States |
| Low Life | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
| Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | United States |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy |
| 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out | Yves Simoneau | United States |
| Lilya 4-ever | Lukas Moodysson | Estonia, Sweden, Denmark |
| Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital | Kenji Kodama | Japan |
| The Life of David Gale | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| National Security | Dennis Dugan | United States |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| High Crimes | Carl Franklin | United States |
| Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper | Kenji Kodama | Japan |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom |
| Birthday Girl | Jez Butterworth | United Kingdom, United States |
| John Q | Nick Cassavetes | United States |
| City of God | Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles | France, Brazil |
| In the Bedroom | Todd Field | United States |
| Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street | Kenji Kodama | Japan |
| Showtime | — | United States, Australia |
| Heaven | Tom Tykwer | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy |
| The Laramie Project | Moisés Kaufman | United States |
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Woody Allen | United States |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | United States |
| Knockaround Guys | Brian Koppelman, David Levien | United States |
| One Day in September | Kevin Macdonald | United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland |
| Baby Boy | John Singleton | United States |
| The Fast and the Furious | Rob Cohen | United States |
| Bully | Larry Clark | France, United States |
| Sisters | Sergey Bodrov, Jr. | Russia |
| The Ruination of Men | Arturo Ripstein | Spain, Mexico |