| Banned from Heaven | Tapio Suominen | Finland |
| Two arrows. Stone Age Detective | Alla Surikova | Soviet Union |
| The Punisher | Mark Goldblatt | United States, Australia |
| Homeboy | Michael Seresin | United States |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | United States |
| Her Alibi | Bruce Beresford | United States |
| Without a Clue | Thom Eberhardt | United Kingdom |
| Cold Summer of 1953 | Aleksandr Proshkin | Soviet Union |
| Police | Catherine Breillat, Maurice Pialat | France |
| The Presidio | Peter Hyams | United States |
| Dragons Forever | Sammo Hung | Hong Kong |
| Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | Alan Myerson | United States |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | United States |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Cobra | George P. Cosmatos | United States |
| Police Story | Jackie Chan | Hong Kong |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom |
| Wise Guys | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Ants Bring Death | Zbyněk Brynych | Czechoslovakia |
| At Close Range | James Foley | United States |
| Mike's Murder | James Bridges | United States |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Le Marginal | Jacques Deray | France |
| From the Life of a Chief of the Criminal Police | Stepan Puchinyan | Soviet Union |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | United Kingdom |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | United States |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | United States |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | United States |
| Pixote | Héctor Babenco | Brazil |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | France, Canada, United States |
| ...And Justice for All | Norman Jewison | United States |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Robert Clouse | United States, Hong Kong |
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | United Kingdom |
| Cop or Hood | Georges Lautner | France, Italy |
| Love and Bullets | John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg | United Kingdom, United States |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | France |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States |
| Piano Player’s Night | Jindřich Polák | Czechoslovakia |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | United States |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Flic Story | Jacques Deray | France, Italy |
| Las Vegas Lady | Noel Nosseck | United States |
| Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia | Franco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Serpico | Sidney Lumet | United States, Italy |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | United States |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | United Kingdom |
| Two Men in Town | José Giovanni | France, Italy |