Movies released in 1996| 2 Days in the Valley | John Herzfeld |
| Adrenalin: Fear the Rush | Albert Pyun |
| All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter | Katsuya Matsumura |
| American Tigers | David Worth |
| Amityville: Dollhouse | Steve White |
| Animal Instincts 3 | Gregory Dark |
| Arcane Sorcerer | Pupi Avati |
| Backstabbed | Martin Schmidt |
| Bad Moon | Eric Red |
| Barb Wire | David Hogan |
| Basquiat | Julian Schnabel |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Mike Judge |
| Big Night | Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott |
| Bio-Dome | Jason Bloom |
| Birdcage, The | Mike Nichols |
| Black Jack: The Movie | Osamu Dezaki |
| Black Mask | Daniel Lee |
| Black Sheep | Penelope Spheeris |
| Bloodsport II | Alan Mehrez |
| Bloodsport III | Alan Mehrez |
| Bloody Child, The | Nina Menkes |
| Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson |
| Bound | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski |
| Box of Moonlight | Tom DiCillo |
| Broken Arrow | John Woo |
| Bulletproof | Ernest R. Dickerson |
| Cable Guy, The | Ben Stiller |
| Cannibal! The Musical | Trey Parker |
| Carnosaur 3: Primal Species | Jonathan Winfrey |
| Castle Freak | Stuart Gordon |
| Chasing the Kidneystone | Vibeke Idsøe |
| Christmas Every Day | Larry Peerce |
| Close Shave, A | Nick Park |
| Club V.R. | Gary Hudson |
| Conspirators of Pleasure | Jan Švankmajer |
| Craft, The | Andrew Fleming |
| Crash | David Cronenberg |
| Crocodile | Kim Ki-duk |
| Crossworlds | Krishna Rao |
| Crucible, The | Nicholas Hytner |
| Cyberella: Forbidden Passions | Jackie Garth |
| D3: The Mighty Ducks | Robert Lieberman |
| Damien's Seed | Edward Holzman |
| Day of the Warrior | Andy Sidaris |
| Daylight | Rob Cohen |
| Dentist, The | Brian Yuzna |
| Doll from Hell | Shinobu Murata |
| Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood | Paris Barclay |
| Don't Look Up | Hideo Nakata |
| Down Periscope | David S. Ward |
| Dragon Ball: The Path to Power | Shigeyasu Yamauchi |
| DragonHeart | Rob Cohen |
| Ebola Syndrome | Herman Yau |
| Ed | Bill Couturié |
| Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard | Shimako Satō |
| Elevated | Vincenzo Natali |
| English Patient, The | Anthony Minghella |
| Eraser | Chuck Russell |
| Escape from L.A. | John Carpenter |
| Evening Star, The | Robert Harling |
| Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen |
| Evita | Alan Parker |
| Executive Decision | Stuart Baird |
| Face of Evil | Mary Lambert |
| Fan, The | Tony Scott |
| Fargo | Joel Coen |
| Feeders | Mark Polonia, Jon McBride, John Polonia |
| Femalien | Cybil Richards |
| First Wives Club, The | Hugh Wilson |
| Flipper | Alan Shapiro |
| Flirting with Disaster | David O. Russell |
| Fly Away Home | Carroll Ballard |
| Forbidden City Cop | Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok |
| Freeway | Matthew Bright |
| Fresh Kill | Shu Lea Cheang |
| Frighteners, The | Peter Jackson |
| From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez |
| Fudoh: The New Generation | Takashi Miike |
| Gamera 2: Attack of Legion | Shusuke Kaneko |
| God of Cookery, The | Stephen Chow, Lee Lik-Chi |
| Gone in a Heartbeat | Jerry Jameson |
| Gonin 2 | Takashi Ishii |
| Goodbye South, Goodbye | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| Grave, The | Jonas Pate |
| Gulliver's Travels | Diane Eskenazi |
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh |
| Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys', The | Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe |
| Happy Gilmore | Dennis Dugan |
| Hard Core Logo | Bruce McDonald |
| Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Harriet the Spy | Bronwen Hughes |
| Head Above Water | Jim Wilson |
| Head Games | Richard W. Haines |
| Heat After Dark | Ryûhei Kitamura |
| Heaven's Prisoners | Phil Joanou |
| Hellraiser: Bloodline | Alan Smithee, Kevin Yagher |
| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 | Chuck Parello |
| Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | David R. Ellis |
| Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story | Allan Kroeker |
| How the Toys Saved Christmas | Enzo D'Alò |
| Independence Day | Roland Emmerich |
| Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas |
| Iron Monkey 2 | Chiu Lo-Kong |
| Island of Dr. Moreau, The | John Frankenheimer, Richard Stanley |
| Jack | Francis Ford Coppola |
| James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe |
| Jingle All the Way | Brian Levant |
| Killer Condom, The | Martin Walz |
| Kingpin | Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly |
| KI・ME・RA | Kazuyoshi Yokota |
| Last Man Standing | Walter Hill |
| Late Shift, The | Betty Thomas |
| Little Witches | Jane Simpson |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, The | Renny Harlin |
| Lupin the Third: The Secret of Twilight Gemini | Gisaburō Sugii |
| Lying Eyes | Marina Sargenti |
| Mars Attacks! | Tim Burton |
| Matilda | Danny DeVito |
| Maximum Risk | Ringo Lam |
| Metalogue | Peter Rose |
| Michael Collins | Neil Jordan |
| Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma |
| Moebius | Gustavo Mosquera R. |
| Mother | Albert Brooks |
| Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? | Jorge Montesi |
| Mrs. Santa Claus | Terry Hughes |
| Mulholland Falls | Lee Tamahori |
| Munsters' Scary Little Christmas, The | Ian Emes |
| Night Hunter | Rick Jacobson |
| Night Visitors | Jorge Montesi |
| Nutty Professor, The | Tom Shadyac |
| Once a Thief | John Woo |
| Orbital: The Box | Luke Losey, Jes Benstock |
| Organ | Kei Fujiwara |
| Original Gangstas | Larry Cohen |
| Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky |
| Perfect Daughter, The | Harry Longstreet |
| Phantom, The | Simon Wincer |
| Pinocchio's Revenge | Kevin Tenney |
| Playing Dangerous 2 | Lawrence Lanoff |
| Poison Ivy 2: Lily | Anne Goursaud |
| Police Story 4: First Strike | Stanley Tong |
| Primal Fear | Gregory Hoblit |
| Pure Danger | C. Thomas Howell |
| Pusher | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| Quest, The | Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| Rabid Dogs | Mario Bava |
| Ransom | Ron Howard |
| Rebirth of Mothra | Okihiro Yoneda |
| Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary, The | Brian Huberman |
| Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants | David Mamet |
| Rock, The | Michael Bay |
| Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann |
| Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Tibor Takács |
| Santa with Muscles | John Murlowski |
| Satan Returns | Lam Wai-Lun |
| Scream | Wes Craven |
| Season's Greetings | Michael Dougherty |
| Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh |
| Shadow Play | Martine Dugowson |
| Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo |
| Shine | Scott Hicks |
| Sibling Secrets | Mototsugu Watanabe |
| Silent Trigger | Russell Mulcahy |
| Slayers Return | Hiroshi Watanabe |
| Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton |
| Space Jam | Joe Pytka |
| Space Truckers | Stuart Gordon |
| Spy Hard | Rick Friedberg |
| Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes |
| Stendhal Syndrome, The | Dario Argento |
| Street Angels | Billy Tang |
| Street Gun | Travis Milloy |
| Street of Fury | Billy Tang |
| Substitute, The | Robert Mandel |
| Swingers | Doug Liman |
| Sworn to Justice | Paul Maslak |
| Tai Chi II | Yuen Woo-ping, Cheung Yam-Yim |
| Temptress Moon | Chen Kaige |
| Terror in the Family | Gregory Goodell |
| Thesis | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Tiger Claws II | J. Stephen Maunder |
| Tin Cup | Ron Shelton |
| Trainspotting | Danny Boyle |
| Tremors 2: Aftershocks | S. S. Wilson |
| Trilogy of Terror II | Dan Curtis |
| Tromeo & Juliet | Lloyd Kaufman |
| Twister | Jan de Bont |
| Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera, The | Adam Simon |
| Ultraman Zearth | Shinya Nakajima |
| Uncle Sam | William Lustig |
| Vampirella | Jim Wynorski |
| Vibrations | Michael Paseornek |
| Visiting Desire | Beth B |
| Waiting for Guffman | Christopher Guest |
| White Squall | Ridley Scott |
| Wind in the Willows, The | Terry Jones |
| Wish Upon a Star | Blair Treu |
| XX: Beautiful Killing Machine | Takahito Hara |
| XX: Beautiful Prey | Toshiharu Ikeda |
| Zarkorr! The Invader | Michael Deak |