| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | coming-of-age film, drama film, horror film, thriller film |
 Black Dog | Kevin Hooks | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Train of Life | Radu Mihăileanu | drama film, comedy film |
| The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time | Jean-Marie Poiré | fantasy film, comedy film, flashback film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | Erick Zonca | drama film |
| Ma vie en rose | Alain Berliner | transgender film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, crime film |
| Nil by Mouth | Gary Oldman | drama film |
| The Truce | Francesco Rosi | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film |
| Happiness Is in the Field | Étienne Chatiliez | comedy film |
| A Summer's Tale | Éric Rohmer | comedy film, comedy drama |
| The Pillow Book | Peter Greenaway | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Underground | Emir Kusturica | drama film, comedy film, tragicomedy, war film |
| Carrington | Christopher Hampton | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| Élisa | Jean Becker | drama film |
 Beyond the Clouds | Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni | romance film, drama film |
 Assassins | Richard Donner | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Angus | Patrick Read Johnson | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film |
| Death and the Maiden | Roman Polanski | mystery film, drama film, rape and revenge film |
| Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama |
 Stargate | Roland Emmerich | action film, science fiction film |
| The Castle | Aleksei Balabanov | drama film |
 Revenge of the Musketeers | Bertrand Tavernier, Riccardo Freda | comedy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film |
| Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film, war film, historical drama |
| Heaven & Earth | Oliver Stone | drama film |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | romance film, drama film |
| Orlando | Sally Potter | drama film, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | drama film, comedy film |
| The Power of One | John G. Avildsen | drama film, boxing film |
| The Lover | Jean-Jacques Annaud | drama film, melodrama, biographical film |
| Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | drama film, dystopian film, biographical film |
| Sarafina! | Darrell Roodt | drama film, musical film, comedy drama |
| I Don't Kiss | André Téchiné | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| 1492 – Conquest of Paradise | Ridley Scott | drama film, historical film, adventure film, biographical film |
| My Father the Hero | Gérard Lauzier | romance film, drama film, comedy film |
| Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | romance film, drama film |
| Green Card | Peter Weir | romantic comedy film |
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | mystery film, thriller film |
 Itinerary of a Spoiled Child | Claude Lelouch | drama film, melodrama |
| Noce Blanche | Jean-Claude Brisseau | romance film, drama film |
| Wait Until Spring, Bandini | Dominique Deruddere | drama film |
| 300 Miles to Heaven | Maciej Dejczer | drama film, slice of life |
 Asterix and the Big Fight | Philippe Grimond | comedy film, historical film |
| L'Étudiante | Claude Pinoteau | romance film, comedy film |
| Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophuls | documentary film |
 Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | coming-of-age film, drama film |
| The Possessed | Andrzej Wajda | drama film |