| The Ignorant Fairies | Ferzan Özpetek | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat | coming-of-age film, art film, drama film |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | romance film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, romantic horror film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, crime fiction +2 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Michael Hoffman | drama film, fantasy film, romantic comedy |
| Katja's Adventure | Lars Hesselholdt | family film, comedy film |
| Sex Shot | Antonio Adamo | romance film, pornographic film |
| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | romance film, drama film |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film |
| The Erotic Adventures of Marco Polo | Luca Damiano, Joe D'Amato | historical film, pornographic film |
| Beyond the Clouds | Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni | romance film, drama film |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin | Jiří Menzel | satirical film, comedy film, war film |
| Cliffhanger | Renny Harlin | survival film, action film, thriller film |
| Nikita | Luc Besson | drama film, girls with guns, action film, thriller film |
| Everybody's Fine | Giuseppe Tornatore | drama film |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | drama film, historical drama |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film |
| Landscape in the Mist | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film |
| Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | drama film, biographical film |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, comedy drama |
| Sweets from a Stranger | Franco Ferrini | giallo |
| Momo | Johannes Schaaf | drama film, fantasy film |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film |
| Cinderella '80 | Roberto Malenotti | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film |
| Endgame | Joe D'Amato | post-apocalyptic film, action film, science fiction film |
| Victory March | Marco Bellocchio | drama film |
| Red Bells | Sergei Bondarchuk | drama film, adventure film |
| The Sex Machine | Pasquale Festa Campanile | comedy film, science fiction film, erotic film |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | drama film, comedy film |
| The Lady of the Camellias | Mauro Bolognini | period drama film |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film |
| Cop or Hood | Georges Lautner | mystery film, comedy film, action film, crime film |
| The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High | Mariano Laurenti | comedy film, sex comedy |
| Perceval le Gallois | Éric Rohmer | drama film, historical film, medieval film |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film |
| Mister Scarface | Fernando Di Leo | poliziotteschi |
| Flic Story | Jacques Deray | drama film, crime film |
| That Most Important Thing: Love | Andrzej Żuławski | romance film, drama film |
| The Stranger and the Gunfighter | Antonio Margheriti | martial arts film, action film, Spaghetti Western, treasure hunt film |
| The Slap | Claude Pinoteau | drama film, comedy film |
| The King is the Best Mayor | Rafael Gil | drama film |
| Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia | Franco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | comedy film, treasure hunt film, adventure film, crime film |
| Serpico | Sidney Lumet | drama film, action film, biographical film, crime film |
| Two Men in Town | José Giovanni | drama film, neo-noir, crime film |