| Paper Tiger | James Gray | United States |
| Night in Paradise | Park Hoon-jung | South Korea |
| No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United States |
| Fatal Move | Dennis Law | Hong Kong |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | United States, Hong Kong |
| Pusher II | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | United States |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | France, United States |
| Bullets Over Broadway | Woody Allen | United States |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | France, United States |
| A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | United States |
| Billy Bathgate | Robert Benton | United States |
| To Be Number One | Poon Man-kit | Hong Kong |
| Wise Guys | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | United States |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | United States |
| Gangubai Kathiawadi | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | India |
| Thoonga Nagaram | Gaurav Narayanan | India |
| On the Run | Alfred Cheung | Hong Kong |
| Alias Flequillo | Julio Saraceni | Argentina |
| Monsieur Gangster | Georges Lautner | France, Germany, Italy |
| Bullets or Ballots | William Keighley, Edward G. Robinson | United States |