| Drop Squad | David Clark Johnson | United States |
| El héroe | Carlos Carrera | Mexico |
| Exit to Eden | Garry Marshall | United States |
| Go Fish | Rose Troche | United States |
| In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | United States |
| Intersection | Mark Rydell | United States |
| Josephine the Singer and the Mice People | Sergei Maslobojshchikov | Germany, Ukraine |
| Octobre | Pierre Falardeau | Canada |
| Of Love and Shadows | Betty Kaplan | United States, Argentina |
| Priest | Antonia Bird | United Kingdom |
| Safe Passage | Robert Allan Ackerman | United States |
| The Broken Journey | Sandip Ray | India |
| The Madness of King George | Nicholas Hytner | United Kingdom |
| The Promise | Margarethe von Trotta | France, Germany, Switzerland |
| Three Sisters | Sergei Solovyov | Russia |
| Trở về | Đặng Nhật Minh | Vietnam |
| When a Man Loves a Woman | Luis Mandoki | United States |
| Zorn | Gunnar Hellström | Sweden |
| A Home of Our Own | Tony Bill | United States |
| August Snow | Hagai Levi | Israel |
| Banderas, the Tyrant | José Luis García Sánchez | Cuba, Spain, Mexico |
| Benny & Joon | Jeremiah S. Chechik | United States |
| Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains | Mykola Maletsky | Russia |
| Falling Down | Joel Schumacher | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Free Willy | Simon Wincer | United States |
| M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg | United States |
| Maatra Devo Bhava | — | India |
| Posse | Mario Van Peebles | United Kingdom, United States |
| Red Hot | Paul Haggis | Canada |
| Sud | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| Szwadron | Juliusz Machulski | France, Ukraine, Belgium, Poland |
| Tahmina | Rasim Ojagov | Azerbaijan |
| The Heritage | Amnon Rubinstein | Israel |
| The Innocent | John Schlesinger | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Red Squirrel | Julio Médem | Spain |
| The Scream | Jeyhun Mirzayev | Azerbaijan |
| The Secret of the Old Woods | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| You Are My Only Love | Dmitry Astrakhan | Russia |
| American Me | Edward James Olmos | United States |
| Angel de Fuego (Angel of Fire) | Dana Rotberg | Mexico |
| Angel with a Gun | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| Beyond Justice | Duccio Tessari | Italy |
| Braindead | Peter Jackson | New Zealand |
| Después del sueño | Mario Camus | Spain |
| Diggstown | Michael Ritchie | United States |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | United States |
| Hero | Stephen Frears | United States |
| Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | United States |