| Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | trial film, docufiction | France, Iran |
| Random Hearts | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | drama film, fantasy film, action film, children's film, adventure film, science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| The End of the Affair | Neil Jordan | romance film, drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Straight Story | David Lynch | drama film, adventure film, road movie, biographical film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Moja Angelika | Stanisław Kuźnik | drama film | Poland |
| Never Been Kissed | Raja Gosnell | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| The Astronaut's Wife | Rand Ravich | science fiction horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | David Mallet | musical film | United Kingdom |
| All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | transgender film, comedy drama | France, Spain |
| Zero Tolerance | Anders Nilsson | action film, thriller film, crime film | Sweden |
| The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Katja's Adventure | Lars Hesselholdt | family film, comedy film | Germany, Norway, Denmark, Italy |
| The National Anthem | Wu Ziniu | war drama, historical film | People's Republic of China |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein | Tim Hill | monster film, crossover fiction, comedy horror | United States |
| Mumford | Lawrence Kasdan | screwball comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Trick | Jim Fall | LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| 8 ½ $ | Grigori Konstantinopolsky | crime comedy film | Russia |
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Jamie Babbit | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Masquerade (L'empreinte du vice) | Marc Dorcel | pornographic film | France |
| Black and White | James Toback | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, hood film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| The Best Man | Malcolm D. Lee | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Outside Providence | Michael Corrente | romance film, drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Ghost in Love | Lee Kwang-hoon | drama film, fantasy film, romantic fiction, horror film, ghost film | South Korea |
| Universal Soldier: The Return | Mic Rodgers | martial arts film, biopunk, action film, science fiction film | United States |
| Gloria | Sidney Lumet | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Devil In The Flesh | Antonio Adamo | romance film, drama film, pornographic film | Sweden |
| Runaway Bride | Garry Marshall | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | drama film | Italy |
| Muppets from Space | Tim Hill | comedy film, children's film, adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood | drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| Notting Hill | Roger Michell | romantic comedy film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Love Divided | Syd Macartney | romance film, drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film, boxing film | United States |
| Disturbing Behavior | David Nutter | teen film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film | United States, Australia |
| Entrapment | Jon Amiel | romance film, drama film, action film, heist film, crime film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| 8½ Women | Peter Greenaway | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
| Analyze This | Harold Ramis | mystery film, comedy film, crime film | United States, Australia |
| Virus | John Bruno | horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | George Lucas | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Mummy | Stephen Sommers | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Danny Cannon | horror film, thriller film, slasher film | Germany, United States, Mexico |
| The Theory of Flight | Paul Greengrass | drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United Kingdom |
| Beloved | Jonathan Demme | drama film, period drama film | United States |
| The Hi-Lo Country | Stephen Frears | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Waterboy | Frank Coraci | American football film, comedy film | United States |
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| The Matrix | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski | post-apocalyptic film, superhero film, cyberpunk, film noir, action film, dystopian film, thriller film, action thriller, science fiction film | United States, Australia |
| Doug's 1st Movie | Maurice Joyce | family film, comedy drama | United States |
| In the Beginning There Was Underwear | Anna Negri | comedy film | Italy |
| Nightshapes | Andreas Dresen | drama film | Germany |
| Mayonnaise | Yun In-ho | drama film | South Korea |
| Endurance | Bud Greenspan, Leslie Woodhead | athletics film | United States |
| She's All That | Robert Iscove | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | Jon H. Else | documentary film | United States |
| Dark Angels | Sašo Podgoršek | drama film | Slovenia |
| XXX Trek: The Final Orgasm | Cash Markman | pornographic parody film, pornographic film, science fiction film | United States |
| 23 | Hans-Christian Schmid | drama film, spy film, thriller film | Germany |
| Last Call | Christine Lucas | drama film | Chile |
| A Man Called Hero | Andrew Lau | adventure film | Hong Kong |
| A Room for Romeo Brass | Shane Meadows | comedy drama | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Aa Ab Laut Chalen | — | romance film, drama film | India |
| Almanach 1999-2000 | Denys Desjardins | documentary film | Canada |
| Anywhere but Here | Wayne Wang | drama film | United States |
| Asini | Antonello Grimaldi | comedy film | Italy |
| Augustin, King of Kung-Fu | Anne Fontaine | comedy film | France, Spain |
| Bad Company | Jean-Pierre Améris | romance film, drama film | France |
| Batman Beyond: The Movie | Dan Riba | animation, science fiction film | United States |
| Belfast, Maine | Frederick Wiseman | documentary film | United States |
| Blue Streak | Les Mayfield | comedy film, action film, heist film, buddy cop film | Germany, United States |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | transgender film, romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, docudrama, biographical film | United States |
| Celluloid Nightmares | Daisuke Yamanouchi | erotic film, splatter film | Japan |
| Clouds of May | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | drama film, comedy film | Turkey |
| Deep Inside Clint Star | Clint Alberta | LGBTQ-related film, documentary film | Canada |
| Depraved Fantasies 7 | Matt Zane | pornographic film | United States |
| Devi | Kodi Ramakrishna | drama film, fantasy film, action film | India |
| Dill Scallion | Jordan Brady | comedy film | United States |
| Dream Team | Jerry Douglas | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Dưới tán rừng lặng lẽ | Nguyễn Quang | drama film | Vietnam |
| El visitante | Eduardo Castro Caravia | drama film | Argentina |
| Fight for Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou | He Xiaojiang, Shi Wei | historical film, war film | People's Republic of China, Norway |
| Final Run | Armand Mastroianni | action film | Canada, United States |
| Furia | Alexandre Aja | romance film, drama film, science fiction film | France |
| God Forgives, Nuns Don't... | Kullervo Koivisto | pornographic film | Finland, Netherlands |
| Godzilla 2000 | Takao Okawara | kaiju, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Grey Owl | Richard Attenborough | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Holy Smoke! | Jane Campion | drama film, comedy film | United States, Australia |
| I fobici | Giancarlo Scarchilli | comedy film | Italy |
| Idle Hands | Rodman Flender | teen film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror | United States |
| If... Dog... Rabbit... | Matthew Modine | drama film | United States |
| In Too Deep | Michael Rymer | drama film, hood film, crime film | United States |
| Indivisible Partners | Wang Hengli | comedy film | People's Republic of China |
| Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | George Bloomfield | fantasy film | Canada, United States |
| Jill Rips | Anthony Hickox | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Joan of Arc | Christian Duguay | drama film | Canada |
| Judy Berlin | Eric Mendelsohn | drama film | United States |
| Kate, the Cat | Nils Molitor | pornographic film | Germany |
| Letter to America | Kira Muratova | drama film | Ukraine |
| Liang Po Po: The Movie | — | parody film | Singapore |
| Little Big One | Pascal Becker | — | Luxembourg |
| Love of evil (1999) | Vladimir Zaykin | comedy film | Russia |
| Mickey Blue Eyes | Kelly Makin | romantic comedy, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Not of this World | Giuseppe Piccioni | drama film | Italy |
| Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target | Mark Roper | action film | United States |
| Paperback Hero | Antony J. Bowman | romantic comedy film, comedy film, melodrama | Australia |
| Plunkett & Macleane | Jake Scott | comedy film, action film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Romance | Catherine Breillat | romance film, art film, drama film, erotic film | France |
| Saimin | Masayuki Ochiai | horror film | Japan |
| Samar | Shyam Benegal | drama film | India |
| Superstar | Bruce McCulloch | comedy film | United States |
| The Amateur | Juan Bautista Stagnaro | comedy film | Argentina |
| The Bone Collector | Phillip Noyce | psychological thriller film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, buddy cop film | United States |
| The Insider | — | drama film, thriller film, biographical film | United States |
| The Lost Son | Chris Menges, Mark Mills | mystery film, thriller film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| The Omega Code | Robert Marcarelli | speculative fiction film | United States |
| The Story of Us | Rob Reiner | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Through a Blue Lens | Veronica Alice Mannix | documentary film | Canada |
| Trettondagsafton | Mikael Ekman | comedy film | Sweden |
| Voglio stare sotto al letto | Bruno Colella | comedy film | Italy |
| Wild Wild West | Barry Sonnenfeld | comedy film, Western film, action film, buddy cop film, steampunk film | United States |
| Will Eisner - profissão cartunista | — | documentary film | Brazil |
| Wonderland | Michael Winterbottom | drama film | United Kingdom |