| The Machine Girl | Noboru Iguchi | exploitation film, girls with guns, action film, horror film | Japan, United States |
| Léif Lëtzebuerger | Ray Tostevin | documentary film | United Kingdom, Luxembourg |
| One Missed Call | Éric Valette | horror film, ghost film | Japan, Germany, United States |
| The Wave | Dennis Gansel | political thriller film, teen film, drama film | Germany |
| The Desert Within | Rodrigo Plá | drama film | Mexico |
| Panic | Attila Till | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Hungary |
| Night of the Wolf | Kjell Sundvall | action thriller | Norway |
| SOS: Summer of Suspense | Arne Lindtner Næss | children's film | Norway |
 Alibi | Johan Nijenhuis | romantic comedy | Netherlands |
| Ben 10: Race Against Time | Alex Winter | superhero film | United States |
| Charlie Wilson's War | Mike Nichols | drama film, spy film, biographical film, political drama | Germany, United States |
| CJ7 | Stephen Chow | family film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Prince Among Slaves | Andrea Kalin | — | United States |
| A Man Who Was Superman | Jeong Yun-cheol | drama film, comedy drama | South Korea |
| The Band's Visit | Eran Kolirin | drama film, comedy film | France, Israel |
| Underdog | Frederik Du Chau | comedy film, children's film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
 Asterix at the Olympic Games | Thomas Langmann, Frédéric Forestier | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film | France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy |
| Can't Complain | Simon Borka Otterstål | novellefilm, drama film | Sweden |
| I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK | Park Chan-wook | drama film, science fiction film, romantic comedy | South Korea |
| The Home of Dark Butterflies | Dome Karukoski | drama film | Finland |
| Open City | Lee Sang-ki | drama film, action film, neo-noir, crime film | South Korea |
| Into the Wild | Sean Penn | drama film, drama fiction, docudrama, road movie, biographical film | United States |
| Kawin Kontrak | Ody C. Harahap | comedy drama | Indonesia |
| The Astronaut Farmer | Michael Polish | drama film, science fiction film | United States |
 National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Jon Turteltaub | action film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| Taare Zameen Par | Amole Gupte, Ram Madhvani, Aamir Khan | drama film, children's film, musical film | India |
| The Irony of Fate 2 | Timur Bekmambetov | romantic comedy | Russia |
| The Warlords | Peter Chan | drama film, historical film, action film, war film | People's Republic of China |
| Animals in Love | Laurent Charbonnier | documentary film | France |
| En attendant Pasolini | Daoud Aoulad-Syad | drama film, comedy film | Morocco |
| Tali-Ihantala 1944 | Sakari Kirjavainen, Åke Lindman | drama film, historical film, war film | Finland |
| Close-Up – Kurdistan | Yüksel Yavuz | documentary film | Germany |
| Juno | Jason Reitman | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Positius | Judith Colell | drama film | Spain |
| Mad Detective | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai | comedy film | Hong Kong |
 Madicken på Junibacken | Göran Graffman | family film, children's film, comedy drama | Sweden |
| Tales from Earthsea | Gorō Miyazaki | fantasy anime and manga, fantasy film, high fantasy | Japan |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | suspense film, crime drama film, historical drama film, drama film, historical film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, war film, period drama film, hood film+3 | United States |
| Chrysalis | Julien Leclercq | drama film, science fiction film | France |
| The Clown and the Führer | Eduard Cortés | drama film | Spain |
| Butterflies | Kjell-Åke Andersson | children's film | Finland, Sweden |
| Switch | Ole Martin Hafsmo | action film | Norway |
| Koizora | Natsuki Imai | romance film, teen film, drama film | Japan |
| Ratatouille | Jan Pinkava, Brad Bird | coming-of-age film, flashback film, buddy film, comedy drama | France, Japan, United States |
| 666: The Beast | Nick Everhart | horror film | United States |
 Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Sleuth | Kenneth Branagh | mystery film, drama film, comedy film, thriller film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Gold of Valhalla | Martin Schmidt | family film, fantasy film, comedy film | Denmark |