| Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | crime comedy film, action film, action comedy film, adventure film |
| Rawhide | Dick Bush | Western film, pornographic film, action film |
| I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | drama film |
| The Sense of an Ending | Ritesh Batra | drama film |
| American Honey | Andrea Arnold | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film, road movie |
| Silence | Martin Scorsese | drama film, historical film |
| The Comedian's Guide to Survival | Mark Murphy | coming-of-age film, comedy film |
| The Girl with All the Gifts | Colm McCarthy | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, horror film, dystopian film, zombie film, adventure film |
| Denial | Mick Jackson | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| The Limehouse Golem | Juan Carlos Medina | mystery film, horror film, thriller film |
 Free Fire | Ben Wheatley | comedy film, action film |
| Grimsby | Louis Leterrier | comedy film, spy film, adventure film |
 London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | action film, thriller film |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | drama film, biographical film |
| Everest | Baltasar Kormákur | drama film, survival film, action film, thriller film, adventure film, biographical film, disaster film |
| We Are Your Friends | Max Joseph | romance film, drama film, musical film |
 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Guy Ritchie | comedy film, action film, spy film, heist film, buddy film |
| Monsters: Dark Continent | Tom Green | monster film, thriller film, science fiction film |
| Snow in Paradise | Andrew Hulme | thriller film |
| The Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | drama film, trial film, biographical film |
| Cinderella | Kenneth Branagh | romance film, family film, fantasy film, melodrama, cinematic fairy tale, adventure film |
| Gemma Bovery | Anne Fontaine | drama film, comedy film |
| The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | Tom Harper | drama film, horror film, ghost film |
| Gone Too Far! | Destiny Ekaragha | drama film, comedy drama |
| Still Alice | Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer | drama film |
 Selma | Ava DuVernay | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Shawn Levy | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, adventure film |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Sacha Bennett | drama film, crime film |
| Leading Lady | Henk Pretorius | romance film |
| Interstellar | — | time-travel film, drama film, dystopian film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film, hard science fiction |
| 20,000 Days on Earth | Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard | biographical film, documentary film |
| '71 | Yann Demange | drama film, action film, thriller film, war film, crime film |
| Billy Elliot the Musical Live | Stephen Daldry | musical film, comedy drama |
| Big Game | Jalmari Helander | action film, adventure film |
| Desert Dancer | Richard Raymond | drama film, biographical film |
| Closed Circuit | John Crowley | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| The Invisible Woman | Ralph Fiennes | romance film, drama film, melodrama, biographical film |
| Honour | Shan Khan | action thriller |
| The Railway Man | Jonathan Teplitzky | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| An Adventure in Space and Time | Terry McDonough | drama film |
| Saving Santa | Leon Joosen | comedy film, Christmas film |
| Romeo & Juliet | Carlo Carlei | romance film, drama film, melodrama |
 Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | drama film, survival film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film, techno-thriller, disaster film |
 One Direction: This Is Us | Morgan Spurlock | documentary film |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | drama film, spy film, thriller film |
| The Look of Love | Michael Winterbottom | drama film, biographical film |
| Riddick | — | action film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| We're the Millers | Rawson Marshall Thurber | comedy film, road movie, crime film |