| Knick Knack | John Lasseter | family film, comedy film |
| Metamorphosis | George Eastman | horror film |
| New York Stories | Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola | drama film, anthology film, romantic comedy |
| Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator | Don Nardo | horror film |
| The Toxic Avenger Part II | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | comedy horror |
| The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | comedy horror |
| The Wizard | Todd Holland | drama film, comedy film |
| They Call Me Macho Woman! | Patrick G. Donahue | independent film |
| We're No Angels | Neil Jordan | comedy film, Christmas film, prison film, buddy film |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | drama film, sport film, romantic comedy |
| Cheeks | — | pornographic film |
| Doin' Time on Planet Earth | Charles Matthau | comedy film, science fiction film |
| Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | John Carl Buechler | horror film, slasher film |
| Full Moon in Blue Water | Peter Masterson | drama film, comedy drama |
| Hot to Trot | Michael Dinner | comedy film |
| Imagine: John Lennon | Andrew Solt | biographical film, musical film, documentary film |
| Last Rites | Donald P. Bellisario | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Little Nikita | Richard Benjamin | drama film, thriller film |
| Manifesto | Dušan Makavejev | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama |
| She's Having a Baby | John Hughes | drama film, romantic comedy |
| The Glass Jungle | Joseph Merhi | action film |
| Things Change | David Mamet | comedy film, comedy drama, crime film |
| Vampire's Kiss | Robert Bierman | comedy film, vampire film, comedy horror |
| Blood Hook | Jim Mallon | horror film |
| Buy & Cell | Robert Boris | comedy film, prison film |
| Control | Giuliano Montaldo | drama film |
| Deadly Prey | David A. Prior | action film, rape and revenge film |
| Eddie Murphy Raw | Robert Townsend | stand-up comedy, comedy film, documentary film |
| Ernest Goes to Camp | John R. Cherry III | children's film |
| Happy New Year | John G. Avildsen | comedy film, heist film, romantic comedy |
| Ishtar | Elaine May | comedy thriller, action comedy film, buddy film |
| Killer Workout | David A. Prior | horror film, slasher film |
| My Demon Lover | Charlie Loventhal | comedy film |
| No Man's Land | Peter Werner | drama film, crime film |
| Psychos in Love | Gorman Bechard | comedy horror |
| Sister, Sister | Bill Condon | mystery film, drama film, horror film |
| Story of a Junkie | Lech Kowalski | independent film |
| The Misfit Brigade | Gordon Hessler | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film |
| The Rosary Murders | Fred Walton | mystery film, crime film |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | comedy film |
| Aliens | James Cameron | science fiction horror film, suspense film, monster film, action film, horror film, science fiction action film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, science fiction film |
| Big Trouble | John Cassavetes | comedy film |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | romance film, psychological horror film, erotic thriller film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film +3 |
| Class of Nuke 'Em High | Lloyd Kaufman, Richard W. Haines, Michael Herz | comedy horror, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Combat Shock | Buddy Giovinazzo | drama film, war film, splatter film |
| Crawlspace | David Schmoeller | horror film |
| Detective School Dropouts | Filippo Ottoni | comedy film |
| Every Time We Say Goodbye | Moshé Mizrahi | drama film |