| Stomp the Yard | Sylvain White | United States |
| My Son | Jang Jin | South Korea |
| To Live | Angelina Maccarone | Germany |
| Pathfinder | Marcus Nispel | United States |
| Perfect Stranger | James Foley | United States |
| All About Anna | Nicolas Barbano, Jessica Nilsson | Denmark |
| Drama/Mex | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
| Mirush | Marius Holst | Norway |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | United States |
| Skeletons in the Closet | Jeong Yun-cheol | South Korea |
| Bordertown | Gregory Nava | United Kingdom, United States |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | United States |
| The Art of Crying | Peter Schønau Fog | Norway, Denmark |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | Gabriele Muccino | United States |
| Jump In! | Paul Hoen | United States |
| Last Days | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Miss Potter | Chris Noonan | United Kingdom, United States |
| Notes on a Scandal | Richard Eyre | United Kingdom |
| I Served the King of England | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | United States, Hong Kong |
| False Alarm | Katerina Evangelakou | Greece |
| Hayatimin Kadinisin | Uğur Yücel | Turkey |
| Righteous Ties | Jang Jin | South Korea |
| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Dito Montiel | United States |
| The Road to Guantanamo | Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Stranger than Fiction | Marc Forster | United States |
| Broken Bridges | Steven Goldmann | United States |
| Catch a Fire | Phillip Noyce | France, United Kingdom, South Africa, United States |
| Adam's Apples | Anders Thomas Jensen | Germany, Denmark |
| Avenue Montaigne | Danièle Thompson | France |
| The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | France, Germany, United States |
| Ice Bar | — | South Korea |
| Miami Vice | — | United States |
| Palimpsest | Konrad Niewolski | Poland |
| Valley of Flowers | Pan Nalin | France, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, India |
| Death Note | Shūsuke Kaneko | Japan |
| The Omen | John Moore | United States |
| A Scanner Darkly | Richard Linklater | United States |
| Breakfast on Pluto | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Klimt | Raúl Ruiz | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria |
| Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola | France, Japan, United States |
| Southland Tales | Richard Kelly | France, Germany, United States |
| Private | Saverio Costanzo | Italy |
| Running Scared | Wayne Kramer | Germany, United States |
| Fuera del cielo | Javier 'Fox' Patrón | Mexico |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |