| Back to 1942 | Feng Xiaogang | People's Republic of China |
| In the Fog | Sergei Loznitsa | Russia, Germany, Belarus, Latvia, Netherlands |
| Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Spartacus MMXII: The Beginning | Marcus London | United States |
| 1911 | Jackie Chan, Zhang Li | People's Republic of China |
| Pope Joan | Sönke Wortmann | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy |
| Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Spain |
| Barbarossa | Renzo Martinelli | Italy |
| The Founding of a Republic | Han Sanping, Huang Jianxin | People's Republic of China |
| The Admiral | Andrei Kravchuk | France, People's Republic of China, Russia |
| Six Sisters in the War | Ping Wang | People's Republic of China |
| 10,000 BC | Roland Emmerich | South Africa, United States |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Justin Chadwick | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kautokeino Rebellion | Nils Gaup | Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | People's Republic of China |
| The Last Samurai | Edward Zwick | Japan, United States |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Catch a Fire | Phillip Noyce | France, United Kingdom, South Africa, United States |
| Fearless | Ronny Yu | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Kingdom of Heaven | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | People's Republic of China |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy, Netherlands |
| K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Germany, United States |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans | France, Venezuela |
| Kites Over Helsinki | Peter Lindholm | Finland |
| In the Days of Whore | Thomas Zupko | United States |
| Badding | Markku Pölönen | Finland |
| April Captains | Maria de Medeiros | France, Spain, Italy, Portugal |
| Anna and the King | Andy Tennant | United States |
| Abandoned Houses, Empty Homes | Lauri Törhönen | Finland |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | France |
| Sunshine | István Szabó | Canada, Germany, Hungary, Austria |
| The National Anthem | Wu Ziniu | People's Republic of China |
| The Barber of Siberia | Nikita Mikhalkov | France, Russia, United States, Italy |
| Underbara kvinnor vid vatten | Claes Olsson | Germany, Finland, Sweden |
| Poznań '56 | Filip Bajon | Poland |
| The Lu Gou Qiao Incident | Li Qiankuan, Xiao Guiyun | People's Republic of China |
| The Aristocratic Peasant Girl | Aleksey Sakharov | Russia |
| Decisive Engagement: The Huai-Hai Campaign | Jing Mu-Kui, Cai Jiwei, Li Jun, Wei Lian, Zhai Junjie, Yang Guangyuan | People's Republic of China |
| La teranyina | Antoni Verdaguer i Serra | Spain |
| Hibiscus Town | Xie Jin | People's Republic of China |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | Canada, United States |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | France, Denmark |
| The Devil | Andrzej Żuławski | Poland |
| Battle of Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam |
| The Bride | Franc Roddam | United Kingdom, United States |