| Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Stefano Sollima | United States, Italy, Mexico |
| Tschiller: Off Duty | Christian Alvart | Germany |
| Superfly | Director X | United States |
| Baazaar | Gauravv K. Chawla | India |
 Entebbe | José Padilha | United Kingdom, United States |
 Spoor | Agnieszka Holland, Katarzyna Adamik | Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Poland |
 Brawl in Cell Block 99 | Steven Craig Zahler | United States |
| Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Matthew Vaughn | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | United Kingdom, United States |
| Detroit | Kathryn Bigelow | United States |
| Shot Caller | Ric Roman Waugh | United States |
| The Fate of the Furious | F. Gary Gray | United States |
 Ghost in the Shell | Rupert Sanders | People's Republic of China, United States |
| Vengeance: A Love Story | Johnny Martin | United States |
| Live by Night | — | United States |
 Patriots Day | Peter Berg | United States |
 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | Edward Zwick | United States |
| Operation Mekong | Dante Lam | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Tik Tok | — | South Korea |
| Cold War 2 | Longman Leung, Sunny Luk | Hong Kong |
| Three | Johnnie To | People's Republic of China |
 Truth | James Vanderbilt | United States, Australia |
| Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare | Kōbun Shizuno | Japan |
| Trivisa | Vicky Wong Wai-Kit, Jevons Au Man-Kit, Frank Hui Hok Man | Hong Kong |
| Udta Punjab | Abhishek Chaubey | India |
| Regression | Alejandro Amenábar | Canada, Spain, United States |
| Suburra | Stefano Sollima | Italy |
| Ashby | Tony McNamara | United States |
| Talvar | Meghna Gulzar | India |
| The Heineken Kidnapping | Maarten Treurniet | Netherlands |
| Tracers | Daniel Benmayor | United States |
| The Gambler | Rupert Wyatt | United States |
| A Most Violent Year | J. C. Chandor | United States |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Sacha Bennett | United Kingdom |
| Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| JerryMaya's Detective Agency – Shadows of Valleby | Pontus Klänge, Walter Söderlund | Sweden |
| '71 | Yann Demange | United Kingdom |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | United States |
| Closed Circuit | John Crowley | United Kingdom, United States |
| W – The Killer of Flanders Fields | Frank Van Mechelen | Belgium |
 American Hustle | David O. Russell | United States |
| Die letzte Instanz | Carlo Rola | Germany |
| Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker | Kōbun Shizuno | Japan |
| Runner, Runner | Brad Furman | United States |
| Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon | Tsui Hark | People's Republic of China |
| The Frozen Ground | Scott Walker | United States |
| We're the Millers | Rawson Marshall Thurber | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |