| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Sweet Young Foxes | Bob Chinn | comedy film, pornographic film |
| The Man with Two Brains | Carl Reiner | comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy |
| The Night the Bridge Fell Down | Georg Fenady | action film, disaster film |
| Trading Places | John Landis | comedy film, Christmas film |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | political thriller film, drama film, war film, tragedy |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film |
| Barbarosa | Fred Schepisi | Western film |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | documentary film |
| Curse of the Cannibal Confederates | Tony Malanowski | horror film |
| Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | horror film, science fiction film |
| Love and Money | James Toback | drama film |
| Personal Best | Robert Towne | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film |
| Purple Haze | David Burton Morris | — |
| Sorceress | Jack Hill | sword and sorcery film, action film, adventure film |
| Things Are Tough All Over | Thomas K. Avildsen | comedy film, road movie |
| All Night Long | Jean-Claude Tramont | comedy film |
| Burned at the Stake | Bert Ira Gordon | horror film |
| Earthbound | James L. Conway | science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| First Monday in October | Ronald Neame | trial film, comedy drama |
| Graduation Day | Herb Freed | mystery film, horror film, slasher film |
| Great White Death | Jean-Patrick Lebel | nature documentary |
| Modern Problems | Ken Shapiro | screwball comedy film, science fiction film |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | action film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, crime film |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | romance film, drama film, satanic film, musical film |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | action film, treasure hunt film |
| Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. | Richard Brander | independent film |
| Taps | Harold Becker | drama film |
| The Bushido Blade | Tsugunobu Kotani | drama film, samurai cinema |
| The Great Muppet Caper | Jim Henson | mystery film, comedy film, heist film, musical film |
| The Woman Inside | Joseph Van Winkle | drama film |
| Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Tommy Chong | comedy film |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | political thriller film, fiction film, thriller film |
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | drama film |
| Inside Moves | Richard Donner | drama film |
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | James Ivory | drama film |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Oh, God! Book II | Gilbert Cates | fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film |
| Schizoid | David Paulsen | horror film, slasher film |
| Simon | Marshall Brickman | science fiction comedy |
| The Memory of Eva Ryker | Walter Grauman | — |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey | children's film, science fiction film |
| Chapter Two | Robert Moore | romantic comedy film |
| Coriolanus | Wilford Leach | drama film |
| Hair | Miloš Forman | drama film, musical film, comedy drama |
| Hanover Street | Peter Hyams | romance film, drama film, action film, melodrama, adventure film, war film |
| The Capture of Bigfoot | Bill Rebane | horror film |