| Yella | Christian Petzold | romance film, drama film |
| Living with Hannah | Erica von Moeller | drama film |
| Jar City | Baltasar Kormákur | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| BloodRayne | Uwe Boll | drama film, monster film, fantasy film, action film, horror film, vampire film |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | mystery film, action film, erotic thriller, thriller film, psychological thriller, erotic film, crime film |
| Ruudi | Katrin Laur | family film |
| Alpha Dog | Nick Cassavetes | teen film, drama film, biographical film, crime film |
| Erik of het klein insectenboek | Gidi van Liempd | children's film, adventure film |
| Manderlay | Lars von Trier | art film, drama film |
| A Christmoose Carol | Ben Verbong | family film, comedy film, Christmas film |
| Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | monster film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| Crash | Paul Haggis | drama film, crime film |
| The Devil's Rejects | Rob Zombie | comedy horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, comedy film, Western film, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, independent film+5 |
| I Heart Huckabees | David O. Russell | drama film, comedy film |
| Paradise Now | Hany Abu-Assad | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Birth | Jonathan Glazer | romance film, mystery film, drama film, melodrama, thriller film, psychological thriller |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Alexander Witt | science fiction horror film, biopunk, girls with guns, action film, horror film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| Welcome to Mooseport | Donald Petrie | romantic comedy film, comedy film |
 Around the World in 80 Days | Frank Coraci | comedy film, action film, children's film, adventure film |
| The Order | Brian Helgeland | mystery film, fantasy film, action film, horror film, science fiction film |
 Underworld | Len Wiseman | romance film, fantasy film, girls with guns, action film, horror film, vampire film, action thriller, werewolf film |
| Time of the Wolf | Michael Haneke | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film |
| The Miracle of Bern | Sönke Wortmann | drama film, comedy film, association football film |
| School of Rock | Richard Linklater | comedy film, musical film |
| Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Jonathan Mostow | time-travel film, suspense film, chase film, cyberpunk, action film, dystopian film, science fiction action film, thriller film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, science fiction film, techno-thriller |
| Father and Son | Alexander Sokurov | drama film |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | art film, mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | mystery film, drama film, comedy film, spy film, neo-noir, thriller film, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr | drama film |
| Sweet Sixteen | Ken Loach | coming-of-age film, drama film, crime film |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | crime drama film, historical drama film, mystery film, drama film, historical film, action film, period drama film, epic film, gangster film, crime film |
| Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | documentary film |
 K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | drama film, historical film, thriller film, disaster film |
| Samsara | Pan Nalin | romance film, drama film, melodrama, adventure film |
| The Sum of All Fears | Phil Alden Robinson | political thriller film, drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, techno-thriller |
| Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov | mystery film, fantasy film, ghost film, historical drama, experimental film |
| Heaven | Tom Tykwer | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| Enigma | Michael Apted | romance film, drama film, spy film, detective film, war film |
| Nowhere in Africa | Caroline Link | drama film |
| Zoolander | Ben Stiller | comedy film |
| Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Bashkim | Vadim Jendreyko | documentary film |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | romance film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Down to Earth | Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz | comedy film, romantic comedy |
| Der Schuh des Manitu | Michael Herbig | comedy film, Western film, treasure hunt film, parody film |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | romance film, drama film, action film, war film |
| Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | drama film, thriller film, prison film, psychological thriller |