 Before the Winter Chill | Philippe Claudel | drama film |
| Belle and Sebastian | Nicolas Vanier | drama film, family film, adventure film |
| Two Mothers | Anne Fontaine | drama film |
| Paranoia | Robert Luketic | drama film, thriller film |
| Eastern Boys | Robin Campillo | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Going Away | Nicole Garcia | drama film, comedy drama |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | drama film, spy film, thriller film |
| Stray Dogs | Tsai Ming-liang | drama film |
| Attila Marcel | Sylvain Chomet | comedy film |
| The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | drama film, comedy film, detective film, crime film |
| Longwave | Lionel Baier | comedy film, comedy drama |
| Paulette | Jérôme Enrico | drama film, comedy film, crime film |
| Chez nous c'est trois ! | Claude Duty | comedy film |
 Bright Days Ahead | Marion Vernoux | romance film |
| Age of Panic | Justine Triet | comedy drama |
| Cheba Louisa | Françoise Charpiat | comedy film |
| La Maison de la radio | Nicolas Philibert | documentary film |
 Rust and Bone | Jacques Audiard | romance film, drama film |
 Anna Karenina | Joe Wright | drama film, romantic comedy |
 Belle du Seigneur | Glenio Bonder | romance film, drama film |
| Invader | Daniel Calparsoro | thriller film |
| Taken 2 | Olivier Megaton | action film, crime thriller film, vigilante film |
| Zarafa | Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie | children's film, adventure film |
| The Patience Stone | Atiq Rahimi | drama film |
| Blancanieves | Pablo Berger | drama film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, silent film |
| Crawl | Hervé Lasgouttes | comedy drama |
 360 | Fernando Meirelles | romance film, drama film |
| Les Coquillettes | Sophie Letourneur | comedy film |
 Porn in the Hood | Franck Gastambide | comedy film |
| The Chef | Daniel Cohen | comedy film |
 17 Girls | Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin | drama film |
| On the Road | Walter Salles, Sam Riley | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, adventure film, road movie |
 Polisse | Maïwenn | drama film, crime film |
| Sexual Chronicles of a French Family | Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Bel Ami | Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | drama film |
| Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood | Daniele Vicari | drama film |
| The Iron Lady | Phyllida Lloyd | drama film, biographical film |
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Thierry Binisti | drama film |
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Jalmari Helander | comedy horror film, fantasy film, Christmas film, adventure film |
| The Adventures of Tintin | Steven Spielberg | mystery film, family film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, pirate film, treasure hunt film, detective film, adventure film |
| Colombiana | Olivier Megaton | drama film, girls with guns, action film, vigilante film |
 The Three Musketeers | Paul W. S. Anderson | romance film, drama film, comedy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, steampunk film |
| Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | mystery film, drama film |
| Blitz | Elliott Lester | action film, crime thriller film, thriller film |
 Kaboom | Gregg Araki | mystery film, fantasy film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
 Source Code | Duncan Jones | time-travel film, mystery film, drama film, action film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| Heavenly Body | Alice Rohrwacher | coming-of-age film, drama film |
| Wings of Life | Louis Schwartzberg | nature documentary, documentary film |