| Gagarin: First in Space | Pavel Parkhomenko | Russia |
| Flower and Snake: Zero | Hajime Hashimoto | Japan |
| Blood Ties | Guillaume Canet | France, United States |
| The Fatal Encounter | Lee Jae-gyu | South Korea |
| Tamako Love Story | Naoko Yamada | Japan |
| Out of the Furnace | Scott Cooper | United States |
| In the Crosswind | Martti Helde | Estonia |
| Kid Cannabis | John Stockwell | United States |
| Bunker | Patrick Boivin | Canada |
| About Last Night | Steve Pink | United States |
| Winter's Tale | Akiva Goldsman | United States |
| Monuments Men | George Clooney | Germany, United States |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Jean-Marc Vallée | United States |
| 47 Ronin | Carl Rinsch | United States |
| The Past | Asghar Farhadi | France, Italy |
| As the Light Goes Out | Derek Kwok | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Philomena | Stephen Frears | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Denmark |
| Before the Winter Chill | Philippe Claudel | France, Luxembourg |
| The Attorney | Yang Woo-seok | South Korea |
| Friend: The Great Legacy | Kwak Kyung-taek | South Korea |
| INGtoogi: The Battle of Surpluses | Um Tae-hwa | South Korea |
| Oldboy | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Fifth Estate | Bill Condon | United States, India |
| Innocence | Hilary Brougher | United States |
| Red Family | Lee Ju-hyoung | South Korea |
| Carrie | Kimberly Peirce | United States |
| Tangerines | Zaza Urushadze | Estonia, Georgia |
| Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| Stalingrad | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Russia |
| Rough Play | Shin Yeon-shick | South Korea |
| Rush | Ron Howard | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Paranoia | Robert Luketic | France, United States |
| Class Enemy | Rok Biček | Slovenia |
| Eastern Boys | Robin Campillo | France |
| Going Away | Nicole Garcia | France |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | France, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| The Look of Love | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom, United States |
| Harlock: Space Pirate | Shinji Aramaki | Japan |
| Locke | Steven Knight | United Kingdom, United States |
| Thanga Meenkal | Ram | India |
| Caesar Must Die | Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani | Italy |
| The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Harald Zwart | Germany, United States |
| Disciple | Ulrika Bengts | Finland |
| Elysium | Neill Blomkamp | United States |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Thomas Imbach | France, Switzerland |
| The Four Soldiers | Robert Morin | Canada |
| La Tahzan | Danial Rifki | Indonesia |