| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Anatomy of Hell | Catherine Breillat | Amira Casar | Drama | Jury Award, Philadelphia Film Festival |
| The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | Romain Duris | Crime drama | Won BAFTA, +12 wins, +7 nominations |
| C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé | Michel Piccoli | Roger Jendly | Drama | Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
| Le Couperet | Costa-Gavras | José Garcia, Karin Viard | Crime comedy | 1 win & 3 nominations |
| The Demon Stirs | Marie-Pascale Osterrieth | Michèle Bernier, Simon Abkarian, Claudia Cardinale | Comedy | |
| L'Enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard | Drama | 11 wins, including the Palme d'Or at Cannes & 12 nominations |
| Le filmeur | Alain Cavalier | Christian Boltanski | Drama | Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
| Gabrielle | Patrice Chéreau | Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory | Romantic drama | Nominated for Golden Lion, +2 wins, +4 nom. |
| How Much Do You Love Me? | Bertrand Blier | Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan | Romantic comedy | Entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion | Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis | War drama | Co-produced with Germany & UK |
| Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages | Bénédicte Galup, Michel Ocelot | Pierre-Ndoff Sarr | Fantasy | |
| Lemming | Dominik Moll | André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling | Thriller | Entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
| March of the Penguins | Luc Jacquet | | Documentary | Won Oscar, +10 wins, +10 nominations |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Rob Marshall | Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Kōji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, Gong Li | Epic period drama | |
| The Moustache | Emmanuel Carrère | Vincent Lindon | Mystery drama | 2 wins |
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush | Epic historical drama | |
| Nanny McPhee | Kirk Jones | Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury | comedy drama fantasy | American-British-French co-production |
| The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Bruno Podalydès | Denis Podalydès, Sabine Azéma, Zabou Breitman | Mystery | |
| Le Petit Lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois | Nathalie Baye | Crime drama | 2 wins & 5 nominations |
| Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel | Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme | romantic drama | |
| Russian Dolls | Cédric Klapisch | Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly | Comedy drama | 1 win & 2 nominations |
| Ruzz and Ben (Ruzz et Ben) | Philippe Jullien | | Animated short | Canadian-French coproduction |
| Le Temps qui reste | François Ozon | Melvil Poupaud | Drama | 2 wins & 1 nomination |
| To Paint or Make Love | Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | Sabine Azéma, Daniel Auteuil | Comedy | 1 nomination |
| Vendredi ou un autre jour | Yvan Le Moine | Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraïda, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla | Adventure | 2 Awards |
| A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel | Romantic war | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins and 21 nominations |
| Zim and Co. | Pierre Jolivet | Adrien Jolivet | | Screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
