| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Anything Else | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Christina Ricci | Romantic / Comedy | |
| Apres Vous (After You) | Pierre Salvadori | Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain | Comedy / Romance | 4 win & 8 nominations |
| Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Peter Coyote | Comedy / Drama | 1 win & 1 nomination |
| Cavale | Lucas Belvaux | Lucas Belvaux, Ornella Muti | Thriller | 1st of a trilogy |
| Fear and Trembling | Alain Corneau | Sylvie Testud | Comedy | 3 wins & 2 nominations |
| Games of Love and Chance | Abdellatif Kechiche | Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier | Drama | 13 wins & +2 nominations |
| Haute Tension | Alexandre Aja | Cécile de France | Crime / Horror | 4 wins & 3 nominations |
| It's Easier for a Camel... | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade | Comedy | Entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Jeux d'enfants | Yann Samuell | Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 3 wins & 2 nominations |
| Kaena: The Prophecy | Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon | | CG Animation | 1 win & 1 nomination |
| Les Côtelettes | Bertrand Blier | Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet | Drama | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Little Lili | Claude Miller | Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau | | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Monsieur Ibrahim | François Dupeyron | Omar Sharif | Drama | Nomin. for Golden Globe, +4 wins, +4 nom. |
| Monsieur N. | Antoine de Caunes | Philippe Torreton | Biography / Drama | 4 nominations |
| Nathalie... | Anne Fontaine | Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart | Drama | 2 nominations |
| Pas sur la bouche | Alain Resnais | Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty | Musical | |
| Playing 'In the Company of Men' | Arnaud Desplechin | Sami Bouajila | Drama | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Remake | Dino Mustafić | François Berléand, Évelyne Bouix | Drama/History/War | Entered into the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Special Mention Award at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival; 5 wins & 4 nominations |
| Sole Sisters | Pierre Jolivet | Sandrine Kiberlain | Comedy | |
| The Story of Marie and Julien | Jacques Rivette | Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Anne Brochet | Drama, Romance, Mystery | Shown in competition at the 2003 San International Film Festival |
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon | Charlotte Rampling | Drama / Mystery | 2 wins & 11 nominations |
| Tais-toi! | Francis Veber | Gérard Depardieu, Jean Reno | Comedy / Crime | |
| Taxi 3 | Gérard Krawczyk | Samy Naceri | Action / Comedy | |
| That Day | Raúl Ruiz | Bernard Giraudeau | Comedy | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Tiresia | Bertrand Bonello | Laurent Lucas, Clara Choveaux | Drama | 1 nomination |
| The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) | Sylvain Chomet | | Animation | Nominated for 2 Oscars, +15 wins, +18 nom. |
| Twentynine Palms | Bruno Dumont | Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak | Drama / Horror | 2 nominations |
| Who Killed Bambi? | Gilles Marchand | Sophie Quinton, Laurent Lucas | Thriller | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
