| Winter Cherry | Igor Maslennikov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Medium | Jacek Koprowicz | horror film | Poland |
| Commando | Mark L. Lester | action film, thriller film, war film | United States |
| Chicken with Vinegar | Claude Chabrol | romance film, mystery film, drama film, comedy film, crime film | France |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Boys from Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | political thriller film, thriller film, science fiction film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Gulag | Roger Young | drama film | United States |
| Man with an Accordion | Nikolay Dostal | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Teen Wolf | Rod Daniel | teen film, fantasy film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Bride | Franc Roddam | romance film, fantasy film, historical film, horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
 My Science Project | Jonathan R. Betuel | time-travel film, action comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Love Hotel | Shinji Sōmai | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
 The Black Cauldron | Richard Rich, Ted Berman | coming-of-age film, fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy | United States |
| Code of Silence | Andrew Davis | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! Dream Capital Mecha Police | Toyoo Ashida | — | Japan |
| Silverado | Lawrence Kasdan | Western film, action film | United States |
| The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam | arthouse science fiction film, fantasy film, comedy film, dystopian film, neo-noir, Christmas film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy, retrofuturism | United Kingdom, Australia |
| D.A.R.Y.L. | Simon Wincer | action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| O Tempo dos Leopardos | Zdravko Velimirović | drama film | Mozambique, Yugoslavia |
| Life Is Beautiful | Boro Drašković | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Rustlers' Rhapsody | Hugh Wilson | comedy film, Western film | Spain, United States |
| Just One of the Guys | Lisa Gottlieb | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| My Lucky Stars | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, police film, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy film | Hong Kong |
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | romance film, sword and sorcery film, drama film, fantasy film, adventure film | United States, Italy |
| Teachers | Arthur Hiller | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Szaffi | Attila Dargay | comedy film, animated film, adventure film | Canada, Germany, Hungary |
| Supergirl | Jeannot Szwarc | teen film, fantasy film, action film, children's film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan | Frank Oz | comedy film, children's film, musical film | United States |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | science fiction film | Germany |
| A Men Are a Men | Aleksey Moroz | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Farewell, Illusions | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | drama film | Norway |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | coming-of-age film, lesbian-related film, romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| Landscape in White | Gianni Lepre | — | Norway, Italy |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village | Michael Cimino, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, action film, heist film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| The Smuggler King | Sune Lund-Sørensen | comedy film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Sexmission | Juliusz Machulski | post-apocalyptic film, comedy film, dystopian film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | Poland |
| Un parell d'ous | Francesc Bellmunt | musical comedy | Spain |
| So Long | Claude Berri | drama film, neo-noir | France |
| The Woman in Red | Gene Wilder | romantic comedy | United States |
| 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 |