| Good Will Hunting | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| The Frighteners | Peter Jackson | United States, New Zealand |
| The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | United States |
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | United States |
| The Game | David Fincher | United States |
| Career Girls | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Metro | Thomas Carter | United States |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United Kingdom, United States |
| Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | Canada, United States, Australia, Mexico |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | France, United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Ransom | Ron Howard | United States |
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| Pasajes | Daniel Calparsoro | Spain |
| Crash | David Cronenberg | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Looking for Richard | Al Pacino | United States |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands |
| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | France |
| Faithful | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Twister | Jan de Bont | United States |
| Satyr | Michael Zen | United States |
| Striptease | Andrew Bergman | United States |
| Last Dance | Bruce Beresford | United States |
| Eraser | Chuck Russell | United States |
| Drifting Clouds | Aki Kaurismäki | France, Germany, Finland |
| The Juror | Brian Gibson | United States |
| Diabolique | Jeremiah S. Chechik | United States |
| Mary Reilly | Stephen Frears | United States |
| Seasick | Veikko Aaltonen | France, Finland, Sweden |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | Stephen Herek | United States |
| The Other Side of Sunday | Berit Nesheim | Norway |
| The Dream Prince | Ella Lemhagen | Sweden |
| Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | France, United States |
| Underground | Emir Kusturica | France, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Four Rooms | Allison Anders, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell | United States |
| A Walk in the Clouds | Alfonso Arau | United States, Mexico |
| The American President | Rob Reiner | United States |
| Seven | David Fincher | United States |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | France, United States |
| To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United Kingdom, United States |
| Now and Then | Lesli Linka Glatter | United States |
| The Home for Blind Women | Sandra Kybartas | Canada |
| The Aristocratic Peasant Girl | Aleksey Sakharov | Russia |
| What a Wonderful Game | Pyotr Todorovsky | Russia |
| Death and the Maiden | Roman Polanski | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | United States |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | France, Italy |