| The Dawns Here Are Quiet | Renat Davletyarov | Russia |
| Under Heaven | Dalmira Tilepbergen | Kyrgyzstan |
| Big Eyes | Tim Burton | United States |
| PK | Rajkumar Hirani | India |
| Ex Machina | Alex Garland | United Kingdom |
| The Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Austria |
| The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | United Kingdom, United States |
| Something Must Break | Ester Martin Bergsmark | Sweden |
| Doroga domoy | — | Kazakhstan |
| The Handout | Micheline Lanctôt | Canada |
| When the Game Stands Tall | Thomas Carter | United States |
| Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | United States |
| Bitch Heart Asshole | Inan | South Korea |
| Focus | Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | United States |
| Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents | Stina Werenfels | Germany, Switzerland |
| The Bronze | Bryan Buckley | United States |
| Gone Too Far! | Destiny Ekaragha | United Kingdom |
| Chronicle of a Blood Merchant | Ha Ji-won, Ha Jung-woo | South Korea |
| Ebar Shabor | Arindam Sil | India |
| A Most Violent Year | J. C. Chandor | United States |
| Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| Supernova | Rizal Mantovani | Indonesia |
| Land of Storms | Ádám Császi | Germany, Hungary |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby | Ned Benson | United States |
| Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Scott Frank | United States |
| Happy New Year | Farah Khan | India |
| Tuning Fork | — | South Korea |
| El Más Buscado | José Manuel Cravioto | Mexico |
| Two Days, One Night | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | France, Belgium, Italy |
| Fury | David Ayer | United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, United States |
| Addicted | Bille Woodruff | United States |
| Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| Haider | Vishal Bhardwaj | India |
| A Pharisee | Jeong Yeong-bae | South Korea |
| If I Stay | R. J. Cutler | United States |
| Million Dollar Arm | Craig Gillespie | United States |
| Heli | Amat Escalante | France, Germany, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mexico |
| The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | United States |
| Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno | Keishi Ōtomo | Japan |
| The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France, Canada |
| Locust | Egor Baranov | Russia |
| Goodbye Mom | Svetlana Proskurina | Russia |
| Earth to Echo | Dave Green | United States |
| Iron Ivan | Gleb Orlov | Russia |
| My Man | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Japan |