| Prince of Jutland | Gabriel Axel | drama film, medieval film |
| State of Play | Kevin Macdonald | political thriller film, drama film |
 Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | drama film, association football film, comedy drama |
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | mystery film, action film, science fiction film, disaster film |
| Inkheart | Iain Softley | family film, fantasy film, adventure film |
| The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée | romance film, teen film, drama film, biographical film |
| An Education | Lone Scherfig | coming-of-age film, drama film |
| Mr. Bean's Holiday | Steve Bendelack | family film, comedy film, slapstick, road movie |
| The Accidental Husband | Griffin Dunne | romantic comedy |
| Little Ashes | Paul Morrison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| The Good Life | Andrés Wood | drama film |
| Cassandra's Dream | Woody Allen | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, thriller film |
| Run Fatboy Run | David Schwimmer | romantic comedy |
| Léif Lëtzebuerger | Ray Tostevin | documentary film |
| Sleuth | Kenneth Branagh | mystery film, drama film, comedy film, thriller film, crime film |
| BloodSpell | — | fantasy film, machinima |
| 1408 | Mikael Håfström | psychological horror film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film |
| Silk | François Girard | drama film |
| This Is England | Shane Meadows | coming-of-age film, drama film, crime film |
| Death at a Funeral | Frank Oz | comedy film |
| Goal II: Living the Dream | Jaume Collet-Serra | drama film, association football film |
 28 Weeks Later | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, psychological drama film, crime film |
 Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, tech noir, dystopian film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| The Holiday | Nancy Meyers | comedy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy |
| Captain Flamingo & Pac Man And The Ghostly Adventures | David Bowers, Sam Fell | teen film, drama film, family film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film, comedy drama |
 X-Men: The Last Stand | Brett Ratner | superhero film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film |
| The Road to Guantanamo | Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | drama film, docudrama, documentary film |
| Tideland | Terry Gilliam | drama film, fantasy film |
| Goal! | Danny Cannon | association football film |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | mystery film, action film, erotic thriller, thriller film, psychological thriller, erotic film, crime film |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | romance film, drama film |
| The Virgin Queen | Coky Giedroyc | docudrama |
| Manderlay | Lars von Trier | art film, drama film |
| The Nun | Luis de la Madrid | nunsploitation, horror film |
| Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | monster film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| Revolver | Guy Ritchie | drama film, crime film |
 Batman Begins | — | drama film, superhero film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, adventure film, ninja film, crime film |
| I Heart Huckabees | David O. Russell | drama film, comedy film |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Stephen Hopkins | drama film, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Brothers | Susanne Bier | drama film, war film |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film |
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Kerry Conran | action film, alternate history film, dieselpunk, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Ae Fond Kiss... | Ken Loach | romance film, drama film |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Alexander Witt | science fiction horror film, biopunk, girls with guns, action film, horror film, zombie film, science fiction film |
| King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, action film, medieval film, war film |