| Stepping Out | Lewis Gilbert | Canada, United States |
| Story from Croatia | Krsto Papić | Croatia |
| The Doors | Oliver Stone | United States |
| The Sunny Kids | Jüri Sillart | Estonia |
| Three Days | Šarūnas Bartas | Soviet Union, Lithuania |
| Viiva vinita | Timo Linnasalo | Finland |
| Zhou Enlai | Ding Yinnan | People's Republic of China |
| An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Bujna | Viktor Vasylenko | Soviet Union |
| Bursa | Mikhail Vedyshev | Soviet Union |
| Chernov/Chernov | Sergei Yursky | Soviet Union |
| Coma | Nijole Adomenaite | Soviet Union |
| Cuchillos de fuego | Román Chalbaud | Venezuela |
| Decay | Mykhailo Bielikov | Soviet Union |
| Dil | Indra Kumar | India |
| Downtown | Richard Benjamin | United States |
| Good Morning, Beijing | Zhang Nuanxin | People's Republic of China |
| Marupakkam | K. S. Sethumadhavan | India |
| Melancholy Waltz | Boris Savchenko | Soviet Union |
| Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | United Kingdom, United States |
| Men of Respect | William Reilly | United States |
| Peking Duck Restaurant | Gu Rong | People's Republic of China |
| Rafales | André Melançon | Canada |
| Savoy | — | Soviet Union |
| Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea | Karen Gevorkian | Soviet Union, Germany |
| The Ages of Lulu | Bigas Luna | Spain, Italy |
| The Battle of the Three Kings | Uchkun Nazarov, Souheil Ben-Barka | Spain, Italy |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | United States |
| The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| There Were Days... and Moons | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Ubiytsa | Sergey Martyanov | Soviet Union |
| A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | South Africa, United States |
| Anarchy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| Assuage My Sorrows | — | Soviet Union |
| Children of Chaos | Yannick Bellon | France |
| Communion | Philippe Mora | United States |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | United States |
| Dealers | Colin Bucksey | United Kingdom |
| Decalogue X | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Freedom Is Paradise | Sergei Bodrov | Soviet Union |
| I ragazzi di via Panisperna | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| Il Maestro | Marion Hänsel | France |
| Kindergarten | Jorge Polaco | Argentina |
| Lestnitsa | Aleksey Sakharov | Soviet Union |
| Life and Nothing But | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Massacre Play | Damiano Damiani | Germany, Italy |