| Broken Flowers | Jim Jarmusch | drama film, comedy film |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Stephen Hopkins | drama film, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Buenos Aires 100 km | Pablo José Meza | coming-of-age film |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Brad Silberling | teen film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Alexander Witt | science fiction horror film, biopunk, girls with guns, action film, horror film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| Human Nature | Michel Gondry | romance film, comedy film, comedy drama |
| Look at Me | Agnès Jaoui | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film |
| Babuschka | Lidia Bobrova | drama film |
| Time of the Wolf | Michael Haneke | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film |
| Jet Lag | Danièle Thompson | romance film, drama film |
| Hannah med H | Christina Olofson | drama film |
| Father and Son | Alexander Sokurov | drama film |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | art film, mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
 Johnny English | Peter Howitt | action film, spy film, parody film |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr | drama film |
| Erotic Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood | Luca Damiano | pornographic parody film, pornographic film |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oliver Parker | romantic comedy |
| All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | romance film, drama film, comedy film |
| Samsara | Pan Nalin | romance film, drama film, melodrama, adventure film |
| Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov | mystery film, fantasy film, ghost film, historical drama, experimental film |
| The Golden Bowl | James Ivory | drama film |
| Songs from the Second Floor | Roy Andersson | drama film |
 40 Days and 40 Nights | Michael Lehmann | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Heaven | Tom Tykwer | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | drama film, war film |
| Kiss of the Dragon | Chris Nahon | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Under the Sand | François Ozon | drama film |
| How I Killed My Father | Anne Fontaine | drama film, thriller film |
| Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | drama film |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | romantic comedy film, comedy film, Christmas film |
| Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | fantasy film, comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | romance film, drama film, action film, war film |
| Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | drama film |
| Mortel Transfert | Jean-Jacques Beineix | thriller film |
| Metroland | Philip Saville | comedy drama |
| The Harem of Madame Osmane | Nadir Moknèche | comedy drama |
| The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | documentary film |
| U-571 | Jonathan Mostow | action film, war film |
 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | drama film, historical film, medieval film, war film, biographical film, epic film, historical drama |
 Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | trial film, docufiction |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Babar: King of the Elephants | Raymond Jafelice | children's film |
| Waking Ned | Kirk Jones | comedy film |
| Boyz On the Beach | Djamel Bensalah | comedy film, buddy film |
| The Red Dwarf | Yvan Le Moine | drama film, comedy film |