| Monsters: Dark Continent | Tom Green | United Kingdom |
| The Gunman | Pierre Morel | France, United Kingdom, Spain, United States |
| The Heineken Kidnapping | Maarten Treurniet | Netherlands |
| Tracers | Daniel Benmayor | United States |
| A Most Violent Year | J. C. Chandor | United States |
| Genie in a Barrel | Alvin Soprano | Russia |
| The Maze Runner | Wes Ball | United States |
| Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| The Expendables 3 | Patrick Hughes | France, United States |
| The Purge: Anarchy | James DeMonaco | France, United States |
| Shield of Straw | Takashi Miike | Japan |
| Locust | Egor Baranov | Russia |
| Joy Ride 3: Road Kill | Declan O'Brien | United States |
| Blood Ties | Guillaume Canet | France, United States |
| The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Marc Webb | United States |
| Out of the Furnace | Scott Cooper | United States |
| Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | France, United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Obhishopto Nighty | Birsa Dasgupta | India |
| RoboCop | José Padilha | United States |
| Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark | Emile Edwin Smith | United States |
| Dhoom 3 | Vijay Krishna Acharya | India |
| As the Light Goes Out | Derek Kwok | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Firestorm | Alan Yuen | Hong Kong |
| Escape Plan | Mikael Håfström | United States |
| The Fifth Estate | Bill Condon | United States, India |
| Evidence | Olatunde Osunsanmi | United States |
| Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| Insidious: Chapter 2 | James Wan | Canada, United States |
| Machete Kills | Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| Metallica Through the Never | Nimród Antal | United States |
| Paranoia | Robert Luketic | France, United States |
| Cannibal | Manuel Martín Cuenca | France, Russia, Romania, Spain |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | France, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Elysium | Neill Blomkamp | United States |
| Hide and Seek | Huh Jung | South Korea |
| Sharknado | Anthony C. Ferrante | United States |
| World War Z | Marc Forster | United Kingdom, United States |
| Ugly | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Jon M. Chu | United States |
| Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | United States |
| Jack Reacher | Christopher McQuarrie | United States |
| Arrêtez-moi | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | France, Luxembourg |
| Saint Dracula 3D | Rupesh Paul | United Arab Emirates |
| Agent Hamilton - But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter | Tobias Falk | Sweden |
| Snabba Cash II | Babak Najafi | Sweden |
| Last Dance | David Pulbrook | Australia |
| The Amazing Spider-Man | Marc Webb | United States |
| The Hunter | Daniel Nettheim | Australia |