| 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 |
| The Outsiders | Francis Ford Coppola | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film |
| Hot Dreams | Shaun Costello | drama film, pornographic film |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film |
| Still Smokin | Tommy Chong | comedy film |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton | fantasy film, horror film |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film |
 The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | fantasy film, adventure film |
 Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film |
| The Lords of Discipline | Franc Roddam | drama film |
 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 |
| First Blood | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, action film, war film, action thriller |
| Wrong Is Right | Richard Brooks | comedy film |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | drama film, comedy film |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — |
| White Dog | Samuel Fuller | drama film, horror film |
 Creepshow | George A. Romero | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, monster film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, ghost film, anthology film, science fiction film, black comedy film |
| Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, thriller film |
| Firefox | Clint Eastwood | action film, spy film, thriller film |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film |
 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | mystery film, film noir, crime film |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama |
| The Last Horror Film | David Winters | horror film, slasher film |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard | comedy film |
| Vietnam Requiem | Bill Couturié, Jonas McCord | documentary film |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film, black comedy film |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | romance film, drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film |
| Diner | Barry Levinson | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film |
| The Last Hard Men | Andrew V. McLaglen | Western film |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show |
| Arthur | Steve Gordon | comedy drama, romantic comedy |
 Sisters | Brian De Palma | exploitation film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film, psychological drama film, slasher film |
| Buddy Buddy | Billy Wilder | buddy film |
| The Fox and the Hound | Richard Rich, Art Stevens, Ted Berman | coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, buddy film, comedy drama |
| Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | drama film, detective film, crime film |
 Herbie Goes Bananas | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, children's film |
 Blow Out | Brian De Palma | psychological thriller film, political thriller film, police procedural film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film+2 |
| The Howling | Joe Dante | horror film, werewolf film |
| Amy | Vincent McEveety | drama film |
| The Devil and Max Devlin | Steven Hilliard Stern | fantasy film |
 A Change of Seasons | Noel Black, Richard Lang | drama film, comedy film |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | drama film, biographical film |
| Brubaker | Bob Rafelson, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, prison film |
 Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film |
| Shogun Assassin | Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston | samurai cinema, Jidaigeki |
 The Blues Brothers | John Landis | comedy film, musical film |