| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | United Kingdom, United States |
| Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | Canada, United States, Australia, Mexico |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | France, United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands |
| Full Speed | Gaël Morel | France |
| Satyr | Michael Zen | United States |
| The Juror | Brian Gibson | United States |
| The Dream Prince | Ella Lemhagen | Sweden |
| A Walk in the Clouds | Alfonso Arau | United States, Mexico |
| Virtual Sex | Nick Orleans | United States |
| Everything Will Be Fine! | Dmitry Astrakhan | Russia |
| The Aristocratic Peasant Girl | Aleksey Sakharov | Russia |
| Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | United States |
| A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | United States |
| Ocean Waves | Tomomi Mochizuki | Japan |
| A Dangerous Woman | Stephen Gyllenhaal | United States |
| True Romance | Tony Scott | France, United States |
| Poetic Justice | John Singleton | United States |
| Sex | Paul Thomas | United States |
| Far and Away | Ron Howard | United States |
| Jungle Fever | Spike Lee | United States |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | United States |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States |
| Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Steve Miner | United States |
| Ju Dou | Yang Fengliang, Zhang Yimou | People's Republic of China, Japan |
| Revenge | Tony Scott | United States |
| The Hot Spot | Dennis Hopper | United States |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | United States |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu-tung | Hong Kong |
| Katinka | Max von Sydow | Sweden, Denmark |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Once Lied | Vladimir Bortko | Soviet Union |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| The Year My Voice Broke | John Duigan | Australia |
| The Devil's Disciple | David Hugh Jones | United Kingdom, Canada |
| An Umbrella for Lovers | Rodion Nakhapetov | Soviet Union |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| The Karate Kid Part II | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| Under the Cherry Moon | Prince | United States |
| Absolute Beginners | Julien Temple | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| A Cruel Romance | Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union |
| The Bride | Franc Roddam | United Kingdom, United States |
| Perfect | James Bridges | United States |
| The Natural | Barry Levinson | United States |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |