| Prema Mandiram | Dasari Narayana Rao | — | India |
| Full Circle | Richard Loncraine | horror film, ghost film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Pixote | Héctor Babenco | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | Brazil |
Herbie Goes Bananas | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, children's film | United States |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | drama film | Norway |
| Julia Julia | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | comedy film | Norway |
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 | United States |
| Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island | Minoru Okazaki | — | Japan |
Lenin in Paris | Leonid Eidlin, Sergei Yutkevich | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Father and Son | Allen Fong | drama film, family drama film | Hong Kong |
| The Howling | Joe Dante | horror film, werewolf film | United States |
| Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | drama film, sport film, historical film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| SOPOR | Tage Danielsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Amy | Vincent McEveety | drama film | United States |
| Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer | Hideo Nishimaki | — | Japan |
| Swan Lake | Kimio Yabuki | fantasy anime and manga, children's film, adventure film | Japan |
| El vicario de Olot | Ventura Pons | comedy film | Spain |
| The Devil and Max Devlin | Steven Hilliard Stern | fantasy film | United States |
| My Father Is an Idealist | Vladimir Bortko | romance film | Soviet Union |
A Change of Seasons | Noel Black, Richard Lang | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky | Aleksandr Zarkhi | romance film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Security Unlimited | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Brubaker | Bob Rafelson, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, prison film | United States |
| Waiter, Scarper! | Ladislav Smoljak | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Granddaughter of Ice | Boris Rytsarev | fantasy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, jiangshi fiction, fantasy film, action film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| Ogaryova Street, Number 6 | Boris Grigoryev | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Fox hunting | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Age of the Earth | Glauber Rocha | drama film | Brazil |
| The Umbrella Coup | Gérard Oury | comedy film, crime film | France |
| Shogun Assassin | Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston | samurai cinema, Jidaigeki | Japan, United States |
| I Hate Blondes | Giorgio Capitani | comedy film | France, Germany, Italy |
The Blues Brothers | John Landis | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Island | Michael Ritchie | horror film, pirate film, thriller film | United States |
| Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | drama film | Hungary |
| Fame | Alan Parker | teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Brass Target | John Hough | drama film, war film, crime film | United States |
| Borrowing Matchsticks | Leonid Gaidai, Risto Orko | comedy film, historical film, adventure film | Soviet Union, Finland |
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | drama film | United States |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | horror film | Australia |
| The Seventh Company Outdoors | Robert Lamoureux | comedy film | France |
Asylum | Roy Ward Baker | horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | comedy film, action film, adventure film, road movie | South Africa, Botswana |
| Rape of Love | Yannick Bellon | drama film | France |
| La elva leve! | Bredo Greve | drama film | Norway |