| The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Regression | Alejandro Amenábar | Canada, Spain, United States |
| Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro | Canada, United States, Mexico |
| Downriver | Grant Scicluna | Australia |
| Mr. Holmes | Bill Condon | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Scott Frank | United States |
| The Maze Runner | Wes Ball | United States |
| Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper | Kōbun Shizuno | Japan |
| Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | France, United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Oldboy | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Harald Zwart | Germany, United States |
| The Major | Yuri Bykov | Russia |
| Cloud Atlas | Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski | United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Germany, Spain, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong |
| Big Top Scooby-Doo! | Kirk Wise | United States |
| Mona | Ināra Kolmane | Iceland, Latvia |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | United States, Sweden |
| Shark Night | David R. Ellis | United States |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Tomas Alfredson | France, United Kingdom, Germany |
| My Name Is Khan | Karan Johar | United States, India, United Arab Emirates |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Samuel Bayer | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Australia |
| Triangle | Christopher Smith | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Superman/Batman: Public Enemies | Sam Liu | United States |
| Antichrist | Lars von Trier | France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Italy |
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | United Kingdom, United States |
| Changeling | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | United States |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Sleuth | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Germany, United States |
| Perfect Stranger | James Foley | United States |
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| Dead Silence | James Wan | United States |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | United States |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | United States, Hong Kong |
| Adam's Apples | Anders Thomas Jensen | Germany, Denmark |
| The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | France, Germany, United States |
| Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| The Pink Panther | Shawn Levy | United States |
| Four Brothers | John Singleton | United States |
| Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | United States |
| Hostage | Florent-Emilio Siri | Germany, United States |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Ocean's Twelve | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| The Hypnotized | Kim In-shik | South Korea |
| Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | United States |