 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 |
| Mona and the Time of Burning Love | Mikko Niskanen | drama film | Finland |
| Moon Rainbow | Andrey Yermash | drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor | Alfonso Brescia | comedy film, sex film | Italy |
| Tender Age | Valery Isakov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 Station for Two | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Breathless | Jim McBride | romance film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | fantasy film, children's film | United States |
| Midvinterduell | Lars Molin | drama film | Sweden |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner | action film, spy film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Australia |
 WarGames | John Badham | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull | science fiction film | United States |
| Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama | France |
| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film | Italy |
| Boys | Dinara Asanova | teen film, drama film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | Mats Arehn | comedy film | Sweden |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, comedy film, erotic film, comedy drama | United States |