| School Daze | Spike Lee | coming-of-age film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Best Seller | John Flynn | neo-noir, crime film | United States |
| The Eighth Happiness | Johnnie To | comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Extreme Prejudice | Walter Hill | drama film, Western film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Maurice | James Ivory | drama film, historical film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Lost Boys | Joel Schumacher | comedy horror film, fantasy film, vampire film | United States |
| Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | comedy film, war film, comedy drama | United States |
| Mirror for a Hero | Vladimir Khotinenko | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll räddar Hönan | Jan Gissberg | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Sweden |
| An American Tail | Don Bluth | drama film, family film | United States |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Love Is the Ruin of Us All | Jože Gale | drama film, historical film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Code Name Flash | Leung Chi-Keung, Zhu Yan | action film, war film | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Armour of God | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang | martial arts film, action comedy film, adventure film | Hong Kong |
| Eien no 1/2 | Kichitarō Negishi | — | Japan |
| They Call Me Renegade | Enzo Barboni | comedy film, action film | Italy |
| Come and See | Elem Klimov | drama film, thriller film, partisan film, war film, tragedy | Soviet Union |
| Gardens of Stone | Francis Ford Coppola | drama film, war film | United States |
| The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones | Don Lusk, Ray Patterson | crossover fiction, science fiction comedy, musical film | United States |
| Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| No regret | Herman Yau | drama film, biographical film | British Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
 Forgotten Melody for a Flute | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| The Lonely Voice of Man | Alexander Sokurov | drama film | Soviet Union |
 Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | drama film, fantasy film | France, Germany |
| Lolita: Vibrator Torture | Hisayasu Satō | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Amazon Women on the Moon | Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante, John Landis | science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy, retrofuturism | United States |
| Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United States |
| Insult | Arkadi Sirenko | drama film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
 The Man Who Planted Trees | Frédéric Back | drama film, family film | Canada |
| På stigende kurs | Bo Hermansson | — | Norway |
| The Living Daylights | John Glen | action film, spy film, thriller film | United Kingdom |
| An Autumn's Tale | Mabel Cheung | romantic drama film | Hong Kong |
| The Squeeze | Roger Young | comedy thriller, action film | United States |
| Lust for Freedom | Eric Louzil | women in prison film | United States |
| Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines | Alla Surikova | comedy film, Western film, Red Western | Soviet Union |
| Zhmenyaky | Alfred Shestopalov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Devil's Disciple | David Hugh Jones | romance film, drama film, comedy film, war film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| We Are Cheerful, Happy, Talented! | Alexander Surin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United States, Italy |
| That's Life! | Blake Edwards | comedy film, melodrama, tragicomedy, comedy drama | United States |
| Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | horror anime and manga, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film | Japan |
| Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy | Janusz Kidawa | — | Poland |
| The Left-Hander | Sergey Ovcharov | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Chuck Russell | teen film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, slasher film | United States |
| The Morning After | Sidney Lumet | mystery film | United States |
| Starting Over | Alexa Visarion | psychological film | Socialist Republic of Romania |
| Sukeban Deka The Movie | Hideo Tanaka | action film | Japan |