| Friday the 13th Part III | Steve Miner | horror film |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film |
| The Toy | Richard Donner | comedy film |
| Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | comedy film |
| Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — |
| The World of ‘The Dark Crystal’ | Jim Henson | documentary film |
| Drum | Steve Carver | drama film, action film, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film |
| Best Friends | Norman Jewison | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | drama film, comedy film |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | drama film, family film, children's film, science fiction film |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — |
| Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | drama film |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | mystery film, film noir, crime film |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard | comedy film |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film |
| The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch | teen film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | John Badham | drama film |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film, black comedy film |
| The Jericho Mile | — | drama film |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film |
| Porky's | Bob Clark | coming-of-age film, teen film, comedy film |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | romance film, drama television series, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | sword and sorcery film, drama film, fantasy film, action film, medieval film |
| Stripes | Ivan Reitman | action comedy film, war film, buddy film |
| Shock Treatment | Jim Sharman | comedy film, musical film |
| Galaxy of Terror | Bruce D. Clark | monster film, action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Southern Comfort | Walter Hill | action film, thriller film, war film |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | documentary film |
| The Cannonball Run | Hal Needham | sport film, action comedy film, road movie |
| Escape to Victory | John Huston | drama film, association football film, war film, prison film |
| Omen III: The Final Conflict | Graham Baker | political thriller film, horror film |
| The Burning | Tony Maylam | horror film, slasher film |
| Seems Like Old Times | Jay Sandrich | romantic comedy |
| The Devil and Max Devlin | Steven Hilliard Stern | fantasy film |
| Xanadu | Robert Greenwald | fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy |
| A Change of Seasons | Noel Black, Richard Lang | drama film, comedy film |
| The Jazz Singer | Sidney J. Furie, Richard Fleischer | romance film, musical film |
| Brubaker | Bob Rafelson, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, prison film |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film |