| The Desert Within | Rodrigo Plá | Mexico |
| 10,000 BC | Roland Emmerich | South Africa, United States |
| No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United States |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Mike Newell | United States |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Justin Chadwick | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Orphanage | J. A. Bayona | Spain, Mexico |
| The vanished empire | Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia |
| Last Present | Kim Yeong-jun | South Korea |
| The Band's Visit | Eran Kolirin | France, Israel |
| The Kautokeino Rebellion | Nils Gaup | Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| The Astronaut Farmer | Michael Polish | United States |
| P.S. I Love You | Richard LaGravenese | United States |
| I Am Legend | Francis Lawrence | United States |
| The Kite Runner | Marc Forster | United States |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | People's Republic of China |
| En attendant Pasolini | Daoud Aoulad-Syad | Morocco |
| The Butterfly | Nayato Fio Nuala | Indonesia |
| Christmas Story | Juha Wuolijoki | Finland |
| The Last Samurai | Edward Zwick | Japan, United States |
| Beowulf | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| 14 Kilometers | Gerardo Olivares | Spain |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Shekhar Kapur | United Kingdom |
| The Clown and the Führer | Eduard Cortés | Spain |
| Koizora | Natsuki Imai | Japan |
| Sleuth | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| Quemar las Naves | Francisco Franco Alba | Mexico |
| Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | France |
| The Sign of the City | Carlos Alberto Riccelli | Brazil |
| Feast of Love | Robert Benton | United States |
| Little Children | Todd Field | United States |
| The Edge of Heaven | Fatih Akin | Germany, Italy, Turkey |
| 1408 | Mikael Håfström | United Kingdom, United States |
| No Reservations | Scott Hicks | United States, Australia |
| Salvador | Manuel Huerga | United Kingdom, Spain |
| The Happy Life | Lee Joon-ik | South Korea |
| ¿Y tú quién eres? | Antonio Mercero | Spain |
| Resurrecting the Champ | Rod Lurie | United States |
| The Nanny Diaries | Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | United States |
| Chak De! India | Shimit Amin | India |
| Zhizn vrasplokh | Aleksandr Brunkovsky | Russia |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud | France |
| Obaba | Montxo Armendáriz | Germany, Spain |
| 3 Hari untuk Selamanya | Riri Riza | Indonesia |
| Goal II: Living the Dream | Jaume Collet-Serra | United Kingdom, Spain |
| Little Girl Blue | Alice Nellis | Czech Republic, Slovakia |