| Princess Turandot | Gerhard Lamprecht | comedy film |
| My Heart Calls You | Carmine Gallone | musical film |
| Happy Days in Aranjuez | Johannes Meyer | comedy film |
| The Star of Valencia | Serge de Poligny | drama film |
 Das Lied der schwarzen Berge | K. Breiness, Hans Natge | mountain film |
| The White Demon | Kurt Gerron | drama film |
| A Mad Idea | Kurt Gerron | comedy film |
| Two Hearts Beat as One | Wilhelm Thiele | musical film |
| The Concert | Leo Mittler | comedy film |
| Calais-Dover | Jean Boyer, Anatole Litvak | comedy film |
| The Fate of Renate Langen | Rudolf Walther-Fein | drama film |
| Everybody Wins | René Pujol, Hans Steinhoff | comedy film |
| Three Days Confined to Barracks | Carl Boese | comedy film |
| Quiet Life | Alexandros Avranas | drama film |
| September 5 | Tim Fehlbaum | historical film, thriller film |
| Girl You Know It's True | Simon Verhoeven | biographical film |
| The Recycling Myth | Benedict Wermter, Tom Costello | documentary film |
| Brief Story from the Green Planet | Santiago Loza | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| A Family Submerged | María Alche | drama film |
| Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life | Tomer Heymann | documentary film |
| Die Freibadclique | Friedemann Fromm | teen film, drama film |
 Looking for Oum Kulthum | Shirin Neshat | drama film |
| Mr. Moll and the Chocolate Factory | Manuel Flurin Hendry | family film, comedy film |
| Buddha's Little Finger | Tony Pemberton | drama film |
| Steel | Sven Matten | fiction film, psychedelic film |
 The Danish Girl | Tom Hooper | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| Traumfrauen | Anika Decker | romantic comedy film |
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Kerstin Höckel | — |
| Wadjda | Haifaa al-Mansour | drama film |
 Hanna | Joe Wright | survival film, girls with guns, action film, thriller film |
| Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki | drama film, comedy film |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Werner Herzog | documentary film |
| My Heart of Darkness | Staffan Julén | documentary film |
| Nanga Parbat | Joseph Vilsmaier | drama film, adventure film |
| Single by Contract | Marc Rothemund | comedy film |
 The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | political thriller film, drama film, crime film |
| The Solitude of Prime Numbers | Saverio Costanzo | drama film |
| Kill Daddy Good Night | Michael Glawogger | drama film |
| Pandorum | Christian Alvart | science fiction horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, action film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Tannöd | Bettina Oberli | drama film |
| Thick as Thieves | Mimi Leder | action film, heist film |
| 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde | Christof Wahl, Til Schweiger | comedy film, medieval film |
| Pride and Glory | Gavin O'Connor | drama film, crime film |
| Stories on Human Rights | Idrissa Ouédraogo, Pipilotti Rist, Runa Islam, Bram Schouw, Pablo Trapero, Ange Leccia, Teresa Serrano, Charles de Meaux, Daniela Thomas, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Abderrahmane Sissako, Sarkis Zabunyan +13 | anthology film |
| Blood & Chocolate | Katja von Garnier | teen film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film |
| Der Penny-Markt auf der Reeperbahn | — | reportage, documentary film |
| In the Name of the King | Uwe Boll | fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| Resident Evil: Extinction | Russell Mulcahy | science fiction horror film, biopunk, horror western, post-apocalyptic film, Western film, girls with guns, action film, horror film, dystopian film, zombie film, science fiction film |