| Hearts in Atlantis | Scott Hicks | United States, Australia |
| Shallow Hal | Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly | Germany, United States |
| Heaven | Tom Tykwer | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy |
| The Backstage Slap | Tất Bình | Vietnam |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | France, Venezuela |
| The Mothman Prophecies | Mark Pellington | United States |
| The Last Kiss | Gabriele Muccino | Italy |
| Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | United States |
| Liberty Stands Still | Kari Skogland | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Pumpkin | Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder | United States |
| The Laramie Project | Moisés Kaufman | United States |
| Rock Star | Stephen Herek | United States |
| I Am Sam | Jessie Nelson | United States |
| The Last Castle | Rod Lurie | United States |
| Edges of the Lord | Yurek Bogayevicz | United States, Poland |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | United States |
| Under the Sand | François Ozon | France |
| How I Killed My Father | Anne Fontaine | France, Spain |
| Knockaround Guys | Brian Koppelman, David Levien | United States |
| Kites Over Helsinki | Peter Lindholm | Finland |
| Syndare i sommarsol | Daniel Alfredson | Sweden |
| Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener | United States |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | France, United Kingdom |
| All the Pretty Horses | Billy Bob Thornton | United States |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Baby Boy | John Singleton | United States |
| An American Rhapsody | Éva Gárdos | Hungary, United States |
| Bully | Larry Clark | France, United States |
| Vatel | Roland Joffé | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Dark Blue World | Jan Svěrák | United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy |
| Va savoir | Jacques Rivette | France, Germany, Italy |
| Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | France, Japan, Germany |
| Men of Honor | George Tillman, Jr. | United States |
| Sisters | Sergey Bodrov, Jr. | Russia |
| Broken Silence | Montxo Armendáriz | Spain |
| Ba người đàn ông | — | Vietnam |
| Pay It Forward | Mimi Leder | United States |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| Broken Hearts | Rafael Montero | Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | People's Republic of China, United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
| Taurus | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Classic | Kari Väänänen | Finland |
| Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Romania |
| The Legend of Bagger Vance | Robert Redford | United States |
| 3 A.M. | Lee Davis | United States |
| The Wedding Planner | Adam Shankman | United States |
| Cast Away | Robert Zemeckis | United States |