| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | Steven Craig Zahler | United States |
| Jeepers Creepers 3 | Victor Salva | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Book of Henry | Colin Trevorrow | United States |
| It | Andy Muschietti | United States |
| The Circle | James Ponsoldt | United States |
| Renegades | Steven Quale | France, Germany |
| Annabelle: Creation | David F. Sandberg | United States |
| Luna | Khaled Kaissar | Germany |
| L'Amant double | François Ozon | France |
| The Devotion of Suspect X | Alec Su | People's Republic of China |
| The Great Father | Haneef Adeni | India |
| Life | Daniel Espinosa | United States |
| Sleepless | Baran bo Odar | United States |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Chad Stahelski | United States |
| Split | M. Night Shyamalan | United States |
| The Mystery of Green Hill | Čejen Černić | Croatia |
| Darkland | Fenar Ahmad | Denmark |
| S3 | Hari | India |
| Salt and Fire | Werner Herzog | France, Germany, United States |
| 150 Milligrams | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| The Whole Truth | Courtney Hunt | United States |
| The Limehouse Golem | Juan Carlos Medina | United Kingdom |
| Jason Bourne | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| Tik Tok | — | South Korea |
| The Conjuring 2 | James Wan | United States |
| Beyond Outrage | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Money Monster | Jodie Foster | United States |
| Raman Raghav 2.0 | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane | Dan Trachtenberg | United States |
| Hush | Mike Flanagan | United States |
| London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | United Kingdom, United States |
| To Steal from a Thief | Daniel Calparsoro | France, Spain, Argentina |
| 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Michael Bay | United States |
| The Clan | Pablo Trapero | Spain, Argentina |
| Munafik | Syamsul Yusof | Malaysia |
| The Boy | William Brent Bell | People's Republic of China, United States |
| The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | United States |
| Operation Avalanche | Matt Johnson | Canada, United States |
| Legend | Brian Helgeland | France, United Kingdom |
| The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
| The Duke of Burgundy | Peter Strickland | United Kingdom, Hungary |
| Spectre | Sam Mendes | United Kingdom, United States |
| Regression | Alejandro Amenábar | Canada, Spain, United States |
| Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro | Canada, United States, Mexico |
| Talvar | Meghna Gulzar | India |
| Unfriended | Levan Gabriadze | United States |
| Terminator Genisys | Alan Taylor | United States |
| Road Wars | Mark Atkins | United States |