| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood | United States |
| A Love Divided | Syd Macartney | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | United States |
| Disturbing Behavior | David Nutter | United States, Australia |
| Entrapment | Jon Amiel | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| 8½ Women | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
| The Theory of Flight | Paul Greengrass | United Kingdom |
| Beloved | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| The Hi-Lo Country | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom, United States |
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | United States |
| Nightshapes | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| Mayonnaise | Yun In-ho | South Korea |
| Dark Angels | Sašo Podgoršek | Slovenia |
| 23 | Hans-Christian Schmid | Germany |
| Last Call | Christine Lucas | Chile |
| Ever After | Andy Tennant | United States |
| Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | Canada, United States |
| The Red Violin | François Girard | United Kingdom, Canada, Italy |
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Mighty | Peter Chelsom | United States |
| Barrio | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | France, United Kingdom |
| Only Clouds Move the Stars | Torun Lian | Norway |
| Simon Birch | Mark Steven Johnson | United States |
| Train of Life | Radu Mihăileanu | France, Romania, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel |
| Primary Colors | Mike Nichols | United States |
| The Day of Full Moon | Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia |
| Wild Things | John McNaughton | United States |
| Cabaret Balkan | Goran Paskaljević | France, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky | United States |
| Entre todas las mujeres | Juan Marino Ortuoste Blanco | Spain |
| Bulworth | Warren Beatty | United States |
| The Wounds | Srđan Dragojević | Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Duplicate | Mahesh Bhatt | India |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | Erick Zonca | France |
| U Turn | Oliver Stone | France, United States |
| City of Angels | Brad Silberling | Germany, United States |
| Washington Square | Agnieszka Holland | United States |
| No Looking Back | Edward Burns | United States |
| Great Expectations | Alfonso Cuarón | United States |
| Kiss the Girls | Gary Fleder | United States |
| Looker | Nic Cramer | United States |
| In That Land... | Lidia Bobrova | Russia |
| The Postman | Kevin Costner | United States |
| Tate's Voyage | Paula van der Oest | Netherlands |
| Train of Shadows | José Luis Guerin | Spain |
| Underbara kvinnor vid vatten | Claes Olsson | Germany, Finland, Sweden |