| The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | drama film, comedy film, detective film, crime film |
| The World's End | Edgar Wright | post-apocalyptic film, action film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy |
| All Stars | Ben Gregor | comedy film |
| I Give It a Year | Dan Mazer | romantic comedy film |
| Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta | drama film |
| Welcome to the Punch | Eran Creevy | action film, crime film |
| Stoker | Park Chan-wook | coming-of-age film, teen film, mystery film, drama film, thriller film |
| Hyde Park on Hudson | Roger Michell | biographical film, comedy drama |
| The East | Zal Batmanglij | drama film, thriller film |
| The Square | Jehane Noujaim | documentary film |
 Anna Karenina | Joe Wright | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Sightseers | Ben Wheatley | horror film, comedy horror, thriller film, black comedy film, crime film |
 Belle du Seigneur | Glenio Bonder | romance film, drama film |
| Sinister | Scott Derrickson | mystery film, horror film, ghost film |
| So - The Definitive Authorised Story of the Album | — | worldbeat, art rock, pop music, progressive rock, documentary film |
| Twenty8k | David Kew, Neil Thompson | thriller film |
 Dredd | Pete Travis | action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, buddy cop film |
 360 | Fernando Meirelles | romance film, drama film |
 The Dark Knight Rises | — | drama film, superhero film, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film |
| StreetDance 2 | Dania Pasquini, Max Giwa | drama film, melodrama |
 Prometheus | Ridley Scott | science fiction horror film, suspense film, religious horror, monster film, action film, horror film, science fiction action film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| On the Road | Walter Salles, Sam Riley | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, adventure film, road movie |
| Bel Ami | Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | drama film |
 My Week with Marilyn | Simon Curtis | drama film, biographical film |
| The Iron Lady | Phyllida Lloyd | drama film, biographical film |
| Chronicle | Josh Trank | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, superhero film, fantasy film, thriller film, found footage film, pseudo-documentary |
| Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul | music documentary film, biographical film |
| Perfect Sense | David Mackenzie | romance film, drama film, science fiction film |
| J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, flashback film, biographical film |
| The Adventures of Tintin | Steven Spielberg | mystery film, family film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, pirate film, treasure hunt film, detective film, adventure film |
| Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart | Mark Kidel | documentary television film, documentary film |
 Hugo | Martin Scorsese | mystery film, drama film, adventure film, steampunk film |
| Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Laurent Bouzereau | biographical film, documentary film |
 The Three Musketeers | Paul W. S. Anderson | romance film, drama film, comedy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, steampunk film |
| Blitz | Elliott Lester | action film, crime thriller film, thriller film |
| X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | teen film, superhero film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film |
| Senna | Asif Kapadia | documentary film |
| Chalet Girl | Phil Traill | sport film, romantic comedy |
 The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | drama film, historical film, biographical film |
| Burke & Hare | John Landis | comedy film, black comedy film, historical drama |
| BatfXXX: Dark Night Parody | Nicholas Steele | pornographic parody film, pornographic film |
| The First Grader | Justin Chadwick | drama film, biographical film |
| Chatroom | Hideo Nakata | drama film, psychological thriller |
| Edge of Darkness | Martin Campbell | drama film, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film |
| Hunger | Steve McQueen | drama film, historical film, prison film |
| Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale |
| The Lovely Bones | Peter Jackson | suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, crime film |
| Attack on Leningrad | Aleksandr Buravskiy | drama film, war film |