- Exhibition (Joanna Hogg – UK)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle – US)
- The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky – France)
- Jealousy (Philippe Garrel – France)
- Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas – France)
- Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard – France)
- Snowpiercer (Joon-ho Bong – South Korea)
- Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Belgium)
- Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz – Philippines)
- Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund – Sweden)
- Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann – France)
- Inherent Vice (P.T. Anderson – US)
- The Immigrant (James Gray – US)
- Jauja (Lisandro Alonso – Argentina)
- Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry – US)
- Interstellar (Christopher Nolan – US)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer – UK)
- Gone Girl (David Fincher – US)
- A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn – US/UK)
- Citizenfour (Laura Poitras – Germany/US)