| Ultimatum | Janusz Kidawa | — | Poland |
| Dirty Story | Jörn Donner | drama film | Finland, Sweden, West Germany |
| Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest | comedy film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Parade of the Planets | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film, fantasy film | Soviet Union |
| Body Double | Brian De Palma | psychological horror film, erotic thriller film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, satirical film, crime thriller film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film+4 | United States |
| Gremlins | Joe Dante | comedy horror film, monster film, Christmas film | United States |
| Åke and His World | Allan Edwall | drama film, family film | Sweden |
The Slim Dusty Movie | Rob Stewart | biographical film, musical film | Australia |
| Country | Richard Pearce | drama film | United States |
| Insaciable | Armando Bó | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Argentina |
| And Life, and Tears, and Love | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Hong Kong 1941 | Po-Chih Leong | war drama | Hong Kong |
| Slunce, seno, jahody | Zdeněk Troška | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Crash Off Gibraltar | Bohdan Poręba | biographical film | Poland |
| Time of Desires | Yuli Raizman | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| On the Threshold | Leif Erlsboe | drama film | Norway |
| Robot Taekwon-V 84cnM | Kim Cheong-gi | — | South Korea |
| Popcorn & Paprika | Sándor Szalkai | comedy film | Germany, Hungary |
| Moon in the Gutter | Jean-Jacques Beineix | drama film, crime film | France |
| Macross: Do You Remember Love? | Noboru Ishiguro, Shōji Kawamori | mecha | Japan |
| Chance | Aleksandr Mayorov | romance film, fantasy film, comedy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Dixie Dynamite | Lee Frost | drama film, action film, crime film | United States |
| Pasajeros de una pesadilla | Fernando Ayala | drama film | Argentina |
| Give Me Five! | Mike Relon Makiling | comedy film | Philippines |
| Streets of Fire | Walter Hill | drama film, action film, thriller film, musical film | United States |
| Footloose | Herbert Ross | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, dance film, musical film | United States |
| The Bounty | Roger Donaldson | drama film, historical film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Joseph Zito | teen film, horror film, slasher film | United States |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Witches' Sabbath | János Rózsa | romance film, family film, adventure film | Hungary |
| The Dresser | Peter Yates | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Fire | Dmitri Kesayants | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Evil That Men Do | J. Lee Thompson | drama film, action film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | police procedural film, suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, epic film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| The Blonde Around the Corner | Vladimir Bortko | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Day After | Nicholas Meyer | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, disaster film | United States |
| The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway | mystery film, drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | comedy film, mockumentary | United States |
| Khochu, chtoby on prishyol | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| A Rogue's Saga | Viktor Tregubovich | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| After the Rehearsal | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Sweden |
| Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film, action film, neo-noir, erotic thriller | United States |
| And Then Came Bumbo... | Nadezhda Kosheverova | cinematic fairy tale, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Applause, Applause... | Viktor Buturlin | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Buket mimozy i drugie tsvety | Mikhail Nikitin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Challenge | A. Kodandarami Reddy | soundtrack | India |
| Charlotte’s Necklace | Evgeny Tatarsky | mystery film | Soviet Union |
| Cireșarii | Adrian Petringenaru | children's film | Romania |
| Devochka iz goroda | Oleg Nikolayevsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Ellie | Peter Wittman | independent film | United States |
| Exterminator 2 | Mark Buntzman | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Faith, Hope, Love | Vladimir Grammatikov | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Falling in Love | Ulu Grosbard | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Carlo Di Palma, Francesco Laudadio, Franco Giraldi, Gianni Amico, Gianni Toti, Giorgio Ferrara, Alfredo Angeli, Luigi Monardo Faccini, Libero Bizzarri, Nicolò Ferrari, Piero Vivarelli, Roberto Benigni +18 | documentary film | Italy |
| First | Gennady Bazarov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Formula of Love | Mark Zakharov | fantasy film, tragicomedy, romantic comedy | Soviet Union |
| Full Moon in Paris | Éric Rohmer | romance film, drama film | France |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | documentary film | United States |
| Kapitan Frakass | Vladimir Saveliev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| King of inventor, Maniac | Kim Cheong-gi | — | South Korea |
| Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging | Shūsuke Kaneko | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Land and Gold | Arman Manaryan | — | Soviet Union |
| Lights | Solomon Shuster | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Loose Connections | Richard Eyre | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Makar-sledopyt | — | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Malambo | Milan Dor | drama film | Austria |
| Manson Family Movies | John Aes-Nihil | horror film, found footage film | United States |
| Mayuri | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | biographical film, musical film | India |
| Mr. Veliky Novgorod | Aleksei Saltykov | war film | Soviet Union |
| Night Train to Murder | Joseph McGrath | — | United Kingdom |
| Not for Publication | Paul Bartel | screwball comedy film | United States |
| Opium and the Kung-Fu Master | Tong Gai | martial arts film, thriller film | Hong Kong |
| Otryad | Aleksei Simonov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Prikazano Vzyat Zhivym | Viktor Zhivolub | war film | Soviet Union |
| Ryabinovye nochi | Viktor Kobzev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Saving Mother | Jin Xi | animated film | People's Republic of China |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film | United States |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | W. D. Richter | superhero film, comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| The Descendant of the Snow Leopard | Tolomush Okeyev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Sparkling World | Bulat Mansurov | speculative fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Milchin | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Trust That Has Burst | Aleksandr Pavlovsky | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Two Versions of One Collision | Villen Novak | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Un amour de Swann | Volker Schlöndorff | drama film | France, Germany |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | romance film, drama film | France, United States |
| Vabank II: point of no return | Juliusz Machulski | comedy film, detective film | Poland |
| Winter in Prostokvashino | Vladimir Popov | family film, fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Without the Right to Fail | Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Zombie Island Massacre | John Carter | horror film, zombie film | United States |