| Snow, Tea and Love | Cătălin Bugean | Romania |
| Out of the Furnace | Scott Cooper | United States |
| Escape Plan | Mikael Håfström | United States |
| Caesar Must Die | Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani | Italy |
| Into the Abyss | Werner Herzog | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Oliver Stone | United States |
| Gamer | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | United States |
| The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Germany, United States |
| Holes | Andrew Davis | United States |
| Chicago | Rob Marshall | Canada, Germany, United States |
| The Last Castle | Rod Lurie | United States |
| The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | United States |
| Con Air | Simon West | United States |
| Sleepers | Barry Levinson | United States |
| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Fortress | Stuart Gordon | United States, Australia |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | Germany, United States |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | United States |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, United States |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Down by love | Pierre Godeau | France |
| Visaranai | Vetrimaaran | India |
| Son of a Gun | Julius Avery | United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand |
| Starred Up | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom |
| West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg | United States |
| Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison | Masahiko Murata | Japan |
| Undisputed III: Redemption | Isaac Florentine | United States |
| Silent Voices | Léa Fehner | France |
| Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead | Declan O'Brien | United States |
| Four Minutes | Chris Kraus | Germany |
| Let's Go to Prison | Bob Odenkirk | United States |
| Captives | Angela Pope | United Kingdom |
| American Me | Edward James Olmos | United States |
| Ernest Goes to Jail | John R. Cherry III | United States |
| The Party | Pierre Falardeau | Canada |
| Interrogation | Ryszard Bugajski | Poland |
| True Believer | Joseph Ruben | United States |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | United States |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | United States |
| The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | United States |
| Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable | Shunya Itō | Japan |
| Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | Shunya Itō | Japan |
| House of Numbers | Russell Rouse | United States |
| My Six Convicts | Hugo Fregonese | United States |
| The Story of Molly X | Crane Wilbur | United States |
| Blackwell's Island | William C. McGann | United States |