- Inside Llewyn Davis- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- 12 Years a Slave- Steve McQueen
- Before Midnight- Richard Linklater
- The Act of Killing- Joshua Oppenheimer
- A Touch of Sin- Jia Zhang-ke
- Leviathan- Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
- Gravity- Alfonso Cuarón
- Computer Chess- Andrew Bujalski
- Frances Ha- Noah Buambach
- Upstream Color- Shane Carruth
- Museum Hours- Jem Cohen
- Blue is the Warmest Color- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Bastards- Claire Denis
- Spring Breakers- Harmony Korine
- Like Someone in Love- Abbas Kiarostami
- Stories We Tell- Sarah Polley
- Her- Spike Jonze
- Nebraska- Alexander Payne
- American Hustle- David O. Russell
- The Grandmaster- Wong Kar Wai
- At Berkeley- Frederick Wiseman
- Beyond the Hills- Christian Mungiu
- No- Pablo Larraín
- The Great Beauty- Paolo Sorrentino
- Blue Jasmine- Woody Allen
- All is Lost- J.C. Chandor
- Post Tenebras Lux- Carlos Reygadas
- Something in the Air- Olivier Assayas
- Viola- Matías Pineiro
- Fruitvale Station- Ryan Coogler
- To the Wonder- Terrence Malick
- Night Across the Street- Raúl Ruiz
- Room 237- Rodney Ascher
- Faust- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Let the Fire Burn- Jason Osder
- Le Pont du Nord- Jacques Rivette
- The Wolf of Wall Street- Martin Scorsese
- You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet- Alain Resnais
- The Last Time I Saw Macao- Joao Pedro Rodriguez
- The Past- Asghar Farhadi
- The Square- Jehane Noujaim
- The Wind Rises- Hayao Miyazaki
- Drug War- Johnnie To
- Cousin Jules- Dominique Benicheti
- Much Ado About Nothing- Joss Whedon
- Passion- Brian De Palma
- Short Term 12- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Dallas Buyers Club- Jean-Marc Vallee
- Berberian Sound Studio- Peter Strickland
- Captain Phillips- Paul Greengrass
