| Reindeer Games | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | United States |
| The Cell | Tarsem Singh | Germany, United States |
| The Ruination of Men | Arturo Ripstein | Spain, Mexico |
| Space Cowboys | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Anna Wunder | Ulla Wagner | Germany, Switzerland |
| In the Days of Whore | Thomas Zupko | United States |
| The Princess and the Warrior | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
| Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen | Ella Lemhagen | Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Aberdeen | Hans Petter Moland | United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden |
| Remember the Titans | Boaz Yakin | United States |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | United States |
| Vanishing Twin | — | South Korea |
| I Dreamed of Africa | Hugh Hudson | United States |
| Playing by Heart | Willard Carroll | United States |
| Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Boiler Room | Ben Younger | United States |
| Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | France, United Kingdom, Germany, Iceland, Norway, United States, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands |
| Brother 2 | Aleksei Balabanov | Russia |
| 28 Days | Betty Thomas | United States |
| April Captains | Maria de Medeiros | France, Spain, Italy, Portugal |
| Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Speakers of the Truth | Karim Traïdia | Algeria, Netherlands |
| Anna and the King | Andy Tennant | United States |
| Angela's Ashes | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | United States |
| The Alternate | Sam Firstenberg | United States |
| The Legend of Rita | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany |
| Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes | Lauri Törhönen | Finland |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Sunshine | István Szabó | Canada, Germany, Hungary, Austria |
| To Die (Or Not) | Ventura Pons | Spain |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | United States |
| The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Straight Story | David Lynch | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Moja Angelika | Stanisław Kuźnik | Poland |
| The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | United States |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | United States |
| Black and White | James Toback | United States |
| The Best Man | Malcolm D. Lee | United States |
| Outside Providence | Michael Corrente | United States |
| Ghost in Love | Lee Kwang-hoon | South Korea |
| Gloria | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Devil In The Flesh | Antonio Adamo | Sweden |
| Runaway Bride | Garry Marshall | United States |