 Around the World in 80 Days | Frank Coraci | comedy film, action film, children's film, adventure film |
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Alfonso Cuarón | time-travel film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, werewolf film |
 Underworld | Len Wiseman | romance film, fantasy film, girls with guns, action film, horror film, vampire film, action thriller, werewolf film |
| Peter Pan | P. J. Hogan | fantasy film, pirate film, children's film, adventure film |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | mystery film, drama film, crime film |
| Dot the i | Matthew Parkhill | drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film, psychological thriller, crime film |
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher | drama film, biographical film, crime film |
| Stealing Rembrandt | Jannik Johansen | comedy film, action film, crime film |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | art film, mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film |
 Johnny English | Peter Howitt | action film, spy film, parody film |
| Shanghai Knights | David Dobkin | comedy film, action film, adventure film, buddy 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 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oliver Parker | romantic comedy |
| All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | romance film, drama film, comedy film |
| In America | Jim Sheridan | drama film |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
 K-19: The Widowmaker | Kathryn Bigelow | drama film, historical film, thriller film, disaster film |
| Possession | Neil LaBute | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy |
| Iris | Richard Eyre | romance film, drama film, biographical film |
| The Golden Bowl | James Ivory | drama film |
 40 Days and 40 Nights | Michael Lehmann | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Heaven | Tom Tykwer | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| Enigma | Michael Apted | romance film, drama film, spy film, detective film, war film |
| Charlotte Gray | Gillian Armstrong | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Me Without You | Sandra Goldbacher | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film, female buddy film |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | John Madden | drama film, war film |
| Maybe Baby | Ben Elton, Hugh Laurie | comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| The Emperor's New Clothes | Alan Taylor | historical drama film |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | romance film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Human Resources | Laurent Cantet | drama film |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | romantic comedy film, comedy film, Christmas film |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud | romance film, drama film, action film, war film |
 Finding Forrester | Gus Van Sant | coming-of-age film, drama film, white savior film, basketball film |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | romance film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, romantic horror film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, crime fiction +2 |
| Metroland | Philip Saville | comedy drama |
| Aberdeen | Hans Petter Moland | drama film, road movie |
| Chicken Run | Peter Lord, Nick Park | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film |
| The Million Dollar Hotel | Wim Wenders | melodrama, crime film |
| Tea with Mussolini | Franco Zeffirelli | drama film, war film |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | David Mallet | musical film |
| The World Is Not Enough | Michael Apted | action film, spy film |
| A Love Divided | Syd Macartney | romance film, drama film, biographical film |
| The Hi-Lo Country | Stephen Frears | drama film |
| Waking Ned | Kirk Jones | comedy film |
| Les Misérables | Bille August | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | romantic comedy film, drama film, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film |