| Stealing Harvard | Bruce McCulloch | Amerika Serikat |
| Lejontämjaren | Manne Lindwall | Swedia |
| Bad Boys | Aleksi Mäkelä | Finlandia |
| It's All About Love | Thomas Vinterberg | Prancis, Britania Raya, Kanada, Jepang, Jerman, Spanyol, Amerika Serikat, Swedia, Denmark, Italia, Belanda |
| Sweet Sixteen | Ken Loach | Britania Raya, Jerman, Spanyol |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Italia, Belanda |
| Open Hearts | Susanne Bier | Denmark |
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat, Australia, Vietnam |
| The Way Home | Lee Jeong-hyang | Korea Selatan |
| Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes | Amerika Serikat |
| Lantana | Ray Lawrence | Jerman, Australia |
| Mrs. Dinosaur | Anri Kulev | Bulgaria |
| Solino | Fatih Akın | Jerman |
| Trapped | Luis Mandoki | Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Evelyn | Bruce Beresford | Britania Raya, Jerman, Republik Irlandia, Amerika Serikat |
| Dolls | Takeshi Kitano | Jepang |
| K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | Britania Raya, Rusia, Kanada, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Ali | — | Amerika Serikat |
| Tycoon | Pavel Lungin | Prancis, Rusia |
| Windtalkers | John Woo | Amerika Serikat |
| The Cat Returns | Hiroyuki Morita | Jepang |
| We Were Soldiers | Randall Wallace | Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Little Big Girl | Morten Køhlert | Swedia, Denmark |
| John Q | Nick Cassavetes | Amerika Serikat |
| Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Callie Khouri | Amerika Serikat |
| Iris | Richard Eyre | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| About a Boy | Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Marriage Is a Crazy Thing | Yoo Ha | Korea Selatan |
| The Golden Bowl | James Ivory | Prancis, Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Italia |
| The Supplement | Krzysztof Zanussi | Polandia |
| Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | Spanyol |
| Changing Lanes | Roger Michell | Amerika Serikat |
| Lost in the USA | Rafy Gerges, Rafi Girgis | Albania, Amerika Serikat |
| Domestic Disturbance | Harold Becker | Amerika Serikat |
| The Backstage Slap | Tất Bình | Vietnam |
| Living Kills | Nicolás Echevarría | Meksiko |
| Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | Britania Raya, Jerman, Australia |
| Glitter | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Amerika Serikat |
| The Claim | Michael Winterbottom | Prancis, Britania Raya, Kanada |
| Bandits | Barry Levinson | Amerika Serikat |
| The Last Castle | Rod Lurie | Amerika Serikat |
| Taking Sides | István Szabó | Prancis, Britania Raya, Jerman, Hungaria, Austria |
| Kites Over Helsinki | Peter Lindholm | Finlandia |
| The Cat's Meow | Peter Bogdanovich | Britania Raya, Kanada, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Sweet November | Pat O'Connor | Amerika Serikat |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| All the Pretty Horses | Billy Bob Thornton | Amerika Serikat |