| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | Japan |
| The Karate Kid Part III | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| Stealing Home | William Porter, Steven Kampmann | United States |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| The Black Cauldron | Richard Rich, Ted Berman | United States |
| Teachers | Arthur Hiller | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| Red Dawn | John Milius | United States |
| Sixteen Candles | John Hughes | United States |
| Breakin' | Joel Silberg | United States |
| Cinderella '80 | Roberto Malenotti | Italy |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | United Kingdom |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | United States |
| Porky's | Bob Clark | Canada, United States |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | United States |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Canada |
| More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton | United States |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | Canada |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | United States |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| The Bad News Bears | Michael Ritchie | United States |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States |
| The Reivers | Mark Rydell | United States |
| The Graduate | Mike Nichols | United States |
| You're a Big Boy Now | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| A Patch of Blue | Guy Green | United States |
| Lord of the Flies | Peter Brook | United Kingdom |
| A Summer Place | Delmer Daves | United States |
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | United States |
| Cómo mueren las reinas | Lucas Nazareno Turturro | Argentina |
| Days of the Bagnold Summer | Simon Bird | United Kingdom |
| Brecha | Iván Noel | Spain |
| The Black Balloon | Elissa Down | Australia |
| Coyote Summer | Matias Alvarez | United States |
| The Three of Us | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | Emir Kusturica | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Denk bloß nicht, ich heule | Frank Vogel | East Germany, Germany |