| Iris | Richard Eyre | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| An American Rhapsody | Éva Gárdos | Hungaria, Amerika Serikat |
| Blow | Ted Demme | Amerika Serikat |
| Taurus | Alexander Sokurov | Rusia |
| Rentun Ruusu | Timo Koivusalo | Finlandia |
| Summer of Sam | Spike Lee | Amerika Serikat |
| By Player | Kaneto Shindō | Jepang |
| Anna and the King | Andy Tennant | Amerika Serikat |
| Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | Amerika Serikat |
| RKO 281 | Benjamin Ross | Amerika Serikat |
| The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | Amerika Serikat |
| Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| Basquiat | Julian Schnabel | Amerika Serikat |
| The Days Without Lei Feng | Kang Ning, Lei Xianhe | Tiongkok |
| Shine | Scott Hicks | Australia |
| Pocahontas | Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg | Amerika Serikat |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | Prancis, Amerika Serikat |
| Frank and Ollie | Theodore Thomas | Amerika Serikat |
| Jefferson in Paris | James Ivory | Prancis, Amerika Serikat |
| Rob Roy | Michael Caton-Jones | Amerika Serikat |
| Wyatt Earp | Lawrence Kasdan | Amerika Serikat |
| Backbeat | Iain Softley | Britania Raya, Jerman |
| Tombstone (film) | Kevin Jarre, George P. Cosmatos | Amerika Serikat |
| This Boy's Life | Michael Caton-Jones | Amerika Serikat |
| Hoffa | Danny DeVito | Amerika Serikat |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jepang, Amerika Serikat, Italia |
| The Inner Circle | Andrei Konchalovsky | Uni Soviet, Amerika Serikat, Italia |
| Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | Prancis, Jerman, Polandia |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| Blaze | Ron Shelton | Amerika Serikat |
| Evil Angels | Fred Schepisi | Amerika Serikat, Australia |
| Lumberjacking | Mikko Niskanen | Finlandia |
| The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | Amerika Serikat |
| Life's Hardy Men | Mikko Niskanen | Finlandia |
| Mask (film 1985) | Peter Bogdanovich | Amerika Serikat |
| Amadeus | Miloš Forman | Amerika Serikat |
| Silkwood | Mike Nichols | Amerika Serikat |
| Tan Sitong | Chen Jialin | Tiongkok |
| Agony | Elem Klimov | Uni Soviet |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | Amerika Serikat |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | Amerika Serikat |
| Lenin in Paris | Leonid Eidlin, Sergei Yutkevich | Uni Soviet |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | Amerika Serikat |
| The Youth of Peter the Great | Sergei Gerasimov | Uni Soviet, Jerman Timur |
| Tom Horn | William Wiard | Amerika Serikat |
| Takeoff | Savva Kulish | Uni Soviet |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Amerika Serikat |