| King David | Bruce Beresford | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, biographical film |
 King Solomon's Mines | J. Lee Thompson | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, treasure hunt film |
| Loose Ends 2: The Tail Continues | Bruce Seven | romance film, drama film, pornographic film |
| Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | Lance Hool | action film, war film |
| My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina | Gerry Chiniquy | — |
| O.C. and Stiggs | Robert Altman | teen film |
| Once Bitten | Howard Storm | comedy film, vampire film, comedy horror |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | comedy film, horror film |
| Sylvester | Tim Hunter | drama film |
| Target | Arthur Penn | mystery film, action film, thriller film |
| That's Dancing! | Jack Haley Jr. | musical film, documentary film |
| The Grafenberg Spot | Artie Mitchell | pornographic film |
| The Last Dragon | Michael Schultz | martial arts film, drama film, action film |
| Turk 182 | Bob Clark | drama film |
| When Nature Calls | Charlie Kaufman | comedy film |
| Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film, action film, neo-noir, erotic thriller |
| Ellie | Peter Wittman | independent film |
| Exterminator 2 | Mark Buntzman | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Falling in Love | Ulu Grosbard | romance film, drama film |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | documentary film |
| Manson Family Movies | John Aes-Nihil | horror film, found footage film |
| Not for Publication | Paul Bartel | screwball comedy film |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | W. D. Richter | superhero film, comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | romance film, drama film |
| Zombie Island Massacre | John Carter | horror film, zombie film |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | drama film |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film |
| Max Dugan Returns | Herbert Ross | drama film, comedy drama |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, musical film |
| Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | teen film, drama film |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | drama film |
| The Black Stallion Returns | Robert Dalva | family film, adventure film |
| The Sting II | Jeremy Kagan | comedy film, crime film |
| Touched | John Flynn | romance film, drama film |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld | fantasy film, romantic comedy |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | political thriller film, drama film, war film, tragedy |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film |
| Barbarosa | Fred Schepisi | Western film |
| Blood Song | Alan J. Levi | horror film, slasher film |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | documentary film |
| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film |
 Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | horror film, science fiction film |
| Memphis Cathouse Blues | — | pornographic film |
| Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures | Herbert Ross | comedy drama |
| One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola | romance film, drama film, musical film |