| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | United States |
| Sleuth | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| 12 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia |
| 1408 | Mikael Håfström | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Germany, United States |
| War | Philip Atwell | United States |
| Next | Lee Tamahori | United States |
| Sunshine | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, United States |
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | United States |
| Bordertown | Gregory Nava | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Covenant | Renny Harlin | United States |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | United States, Hong Kong |
| The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | France, Germany, United States |
| Palimpsest | Konrad Niewolski | Poland |
| Underworld: Evolution | Len Wiseman | United States |
| Southland Tales | Richard Kelly | France, Germany, United States |
| Mission: Impossible III | J. J. Abrams | United States |
| Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | Japan |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | United States |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Germany |
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Four Brothers | John Singleton | United States |
| Pusher II | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark |
| The Cave | Bruce Hunt | Germany, United States |
| The Skeleton Key | Iain Softley | United States |
| Transporter 2 | Louis Leterrier | France, United States |
| Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| 9 | Shane Acker | United States |
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | United States |
| Hostage | Florent-Emilio Siri | Germany, United States |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | France, Germany, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory, Netherlands, Israel |
| Taxi | Tim Story | France, United States |
| Blade: Trinity | David S. Goyer | United States |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | France, United States |
| Countdown | Yevgeny Lavrentyev | Russia |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| House of the Dead | Uwe Boll | Canada, Germany, United States |
| The Hypnotized | Kim In-shik | South Korea |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Paul Greengrass | United States |
| The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | United States |
| Elephant | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | United States |
| The Human Stain | Robert Benton | France, Germany, United States |
| The Third Wave | Anders Nilsson | Finland, Sweden |
| Wrong Turn | Rob Schmidt | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | Canada, Germany, United States |