| By Any Means | Elegance Bratton | United States |
| The Chilean | — | Chile, Italy, Switzerland |
| The Odyssey | — | United Kingdom, United States |
| De Gaulle: Tilting Iron | Antonin Baudry | France |
| Steal This Story, Please! | Carl Deal, Tia Lessin | United States |
| Hijacked | Trần Hàm | Vietnam |
| The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | France |
| The Unforgettable Day | Seung-yong Kang | South Korea |
| The Glory of Life | Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Germany, Austria |
| The Three Musketeers: Milady | Martin Bourboulon | France, Germany, Spain, Belgium |
| The Promised Land | Nikolaj Arcel | Germany, Sweden, Denmark |
| Hammarskjöld | Per Fly | Sweden |
| The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan | Martin Bourboulon | France, Germany, Spain, Belgium |
| Jeanne du Barry | Maïwenn | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Kubi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Boston Strangler | Matt Ruskin | United Kingdom, United States |
| Phantom | Lee Hae-young | South Korea |
| Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman | Biyi Bandele | Nigeria |
| Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost | Elmo Nüganen | Estonia |
| Mat Kilau: The Rise of a Warrior | Syamsul Yusof | Malaysia |
| The Northman | Robert Eggers | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer | Vincent Le Port | France |
| Quo Vadis, Aida? | Jasmila Žbanić | France, Germany, Norway, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Austria, Turkey, Netherlands |
| V2. Escape from Hell | Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov | Russia |
| Zoya | — | Russia |
| The Eight Hundred | Guan Hu | People's Republic of China |
| Resistance | Jonathan Jakubowicz | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| The Bugle from Gutian | Chen li | People's Republic of China |
| Born a King | Agustí Villaronga | United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia |
| Tankers | — | Russia |
| Outlaw King | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom, United States |
| Alpha | Albert Hughes | United States |
| Jan Palach | Robert Sedláček | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Messalina | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy |
| Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. | Steve Loveridge | United Kingdom, United States, Sri Lanka |
| The Founding of an Army | Andrew Lau | People's Republic of China |
| Our Time Will Come | Ann Hui | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| The Young Karl Marx | Raoul Peck | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules | Umberto Lenzi | France, Italy |
| Xuanzang | Huo Jianqi | People's Republic of China, India |
| Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro | Canada, United States, Mexico |
| Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | United States |
| Gagarin: First in Space | Pavel Parkhomenko | Russia |
| In the Crosswind | Martti Helde | Estonia |
| Stalingrad | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Russia |
| Disciple | Ulrika Bengts | Finland |