| Mona and the Time of Burning Love | Mikko Niskanen | drama film | Finland |
| Moon Rainbow | Andrey Yermash | drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor | Alfonso Brescia | comedy film, sex film | Italy |
| Tender Age | Valery Isakov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 Station for Two | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Breathless | Jim McBride | romance film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | fantasy film, children's film | United States |
| Midvinterduell | Lars Molin | drama film | Sweden |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner | action film, spy film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Australia |
 WarGames | John Badham | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull | science fiction film | United States |
| Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama | France |
| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film | Italy |
| Boys | Dinara Asanova | teen film, drama film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | Mats Arehn | comedy film | Sweden |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, comedy film, erotic film, comedy drama | United States |
| Antarctica | Koreyoshi Kurahara | drama film, adventure film | Japan |
| Mundhanai Mudichu | K. Bhagyaraj | romantic comedy film, comedy film | India |
| Without Witness | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Ladies' Tango | Sulambek Mamilov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Gudachari No.1 | Kodi Ramakrishna | spy film | India |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | romance film, adventure film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | George Miller, Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg | time-travel film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, anthology film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Outsiders | Francis Ford Coppola | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Hot Dreams | Shaun Costello | drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Still Smokin | Tommy Chong | comedy film | United States |
| Inflation im Paradies | Susanne Blänkner, Wolfgang Ruehl, Richard L. Wagner, Nikolai Müllerschön | drama film, anthology film | Germany |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton | fantasy film, horror film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Happy We | Lasse Hallström | drama film | Sweden |
 The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | fantasy film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | drama film | Portugal |
 Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Private Eyes | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| The Lords of Discipline | Franc Roddam | drama film | United States |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| Second Dance | Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson | drama film | Sweden |
 Videodrome | David Cronenberg | body horror film, science fiction horror film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, desire horror fiction, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film | Canada, United States |
| Theater of Life | Kinji Fukasaku, Junya Satō, Sadao Nakajima | — | Japan |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear | — | animated film | Australia |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Danton | Andrzej Wajda | drama film, historical film, biographical film | France, Germany, Poland |
| Rope and Breasts | Masaru Konuma | pink film | Japan |
| First Blood | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, action film, war film, action thriller | United States |
| A Burning Lantern | Aghasi Ayvazyan | biographical film | Soviet Union |
| A Love in Germany | Andrzej Wajda | drama film, war film | France, Germany |
| A School Outing | Pupi Avati | comedy drama | Italy |
| Adi Shankaracharya | G. V. Iyer | historical film, biographical film | India |
| Akmenainais cels | Rolands Kalniņš | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Be happy, Julia! | Iacob Burghiu | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Cheburashka Goes to School | Roman Kachanov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Country Couple | Hu Bingliu | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Double Deal | Brian Kavanagh | thriller film | Australia |
| Enigma | Jeannot Szwarc | spy film | France, United Kingdom |
| Flirt | Roberto Russo | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Funny Dirty Little War | Héctor Olivera | comedy drama | Argentina |
| Girl Students' Dormitory | Shi Shujun | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Gori, gori yasno | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Heat and Dust | James Ivory | romance film, drama film, period drama film | United Kingdom |
| Hikayat Sang Kancil | Hassan Muthalib | animated film, short film | Malaysia |
| Himmatwala | K. Raghavendra Rao | action comedy film | India |
| I Shall Never Forget | Pavel Kadochnikov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| I, Son of Working People... | Vladimir Strelkov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film | United States |
| Kandagawa Pervert Wars | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | pink film | Japan |
| Limpan | Staffan Roos | drama film | Sweden |
| Loop | — | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Mawaali | Kovelamudi Bapayya | — | India |
| Max Dugan Returns | Herbert Ross | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Mot harliga Tider | Kjell Jerselius | comedy film, romantic comedy | Sweden |
| Mother Anoush | Ara Vahuni | drama film | Soviet Union |
 News Items | Raymond Depardon | documentary film | France |
| Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | comedy film | France |
| Penmani Aval Kanmani | Visu | comedy drama | India |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, musical film | Canada, United States |
| Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | teen film, drama film | United States |
| Start Liquidation | Boris Grigoryev | action film, war film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | drama film | United States |
| The Academy of Mr Klyaksa | Krzysztof Gradowski | fiction film, children's film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| The Black Stallion Returns | Robert Dalva | family film, adventure film | United States |
| The Legend of Princess Olga | Yuri Ilyenko | historical film | Soviet Union |
 The Mill | Ahmed Rachedi | drama film | Algeria |
| The Monkey Fishing | — | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Profession of Arms | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | documentary film | Canada |
| The Scout | Jamyanguyn Buntar, Konrad Petzold | Western film | East Germany |
| The Stand-By Moves In | Ernest Yasan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Sting II | Jeremy Kagan | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| The Tin Flute | Claude Fournier | drama film | Canada |
| Touched | John Flynn | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld | fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | political thriller film, drama film, war film, tragedy | United States |
| Usurpers of Emperor's Power | Hua Shan | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Utro bez otmetok | Vladimir Martynov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Walking, Walking | Ermanno Olmi | drama film | Italy |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film | United States, Guatemala |
| Where's Picone? | Nanni Loy | comedy film | Italy |
| Zelyonyy furgon | Aleksandr Pavlovsky | detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |