| The Faceless Man | Lauri Törhönen | Finland |
| Nell | Michael Apted | United States |
| The Last Wedding | Markku Pölönen | Finland |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | Germany, New Zealand |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | France, United States |
| All the Way | Fernando Sariñana | Mexico |
| The Queen of the Night | Arturo Ripstein | France, United States, Mexico |
| There Goes My Baby | Floyd Mutrux | United States |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | United Kingdom |
| Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | United States |
| A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | United States |
| Second Sight | Ola Solum | Norway |
| Ladybird, Ladybird | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| The Joy Luck Club | Wayne Wang | United States |
| Crooklyn | Spike Lee | United States |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | United States |
| The Good Son | Joseph Ruben | United States |
| The Inkwell | Matty Rich | United States |
| Sakthivel | K. S. Ravikumar | India |
| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen | Joseph Vilsmaier | Germany |
| Tombstone | Kevin Jarre, George P. Cosmatos | United States |
| Boiling Point | James B. Harris | United States |
| Six Degrees of Separation | Fred Schepisi | United States |
| A Dangerous Woman | Stephen Gyllenhaal | United States |
| The Remains of the Day | James Ivory | United Kingdom, United States |
| Country Teachers | He Qun | People's Republic of China |
| Fiorile | Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani | France, Germany, Italy |
| True Romance | Tony Scott | France, United States |
| The Dark Half | George A. Romero | United States |
| Poetic Justice | John Singleton | United States |
| Consenting Adults | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Beyond the Law | Larry Ferguson | United States |
| The Crush | Alan Shapiro | United States |
| A Stranger Among Us | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Hoffa | Danny DeVito | United States |
| Mafia Docks | Andrea Marfori | Italy |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | France, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Italy |
| Common Pursuit | Christopher Morahan | United Kingdom |
| Of Mice and Men | Gary Sinise | United States |
| Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | France, United States |
| The silent touch | Krzysztof Zanussi | United Kingdom, Denmark, Poland |
| Demasiado corazón | Eduardo Campoy | Spain |
| Sarafina! | Darrell Roodt | France, South Africa, United States |
| School Ties | Robert Mandel | United States |
| Far and Away | Ron Howard | United States |