| New York Stories | Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Regina | Kaljo Kiisk | Estonia |
| Splendor | Ettore Scola | France, Italy |
| The Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin | Yuri Kara | Soviet Union |
| The Scorpion Woman | Susanne Zanke | Germany, Austria |
| The Wizard | Todd Holland | United States |
| Theater season | Viktor Zhivolub | Soviet Union |
| Wayfarers | Ola Solum | Norway |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | France |
| A Most Ordinary Story | Camil Quliyev | Soviet Union |
| A Strange Place to Meet | François Dupeyron | France |
| As Tears Go By | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| Begynnelsen på en historie | Margarete Robsahm | Norway |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | United States |
| Dancing Is My Life | Joe D'Amato | Italy |
| Decalogue II | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Decalogue III | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Decalogue IX | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Decalogue VI | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Defence Counsel Sedov | Evgeniy Tsymbal | Soviet Union |
| Etoile | Peter Del Monte | Italy |
| Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier | Ruy Guerra | Brazil |
| Full Moon in Blue Water | Peter Masterson | United States |
| I Am Not a Tourist, I Live Here | Peeter Urbla | Estonia |
| Kogda nastupit den | — | Soviet Union |
| La Maison assassinée | Georges Lautner | France |
| Little Nikita | Richard Benjamin | United States |
| Manifesto | Dušan Makavejev | United Kingdom, United States |
| My Name Is Harlequin | Valery Rybaraw | Soviet Union |
| Neatmenu tavo veido | Raimundas Banionis | Lithuania |
| Plainlands | Pekka Parikka | Finland |
| Posle voyny — mir | — | Soviet Union |
| Rao Gari Illu | — | India |
| Remington | Damjan Kozole | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Rudraveena | K. Balachander | India |
| She's Having a Baby | John Hughes | United States |
| Team 33 | Nikolay Gusarov | Soviet Union |
| The Dressmaker | Jim O'Brien | United Kingdom |
| The Glembays | Antun Vrdoljak | Yugoslavia |
| The Glory and Misery of Human Life | Matti Kassila | Finland |
| The Midas Touch | Géza Bereményi | Hungary |
| The Mouth of the Wolf | Francisco Lombardi | Spain, Peru |
| The Raggedy Rawney | Bob Hoskins | United Kingdom |
| Verónico Cruz | Miguel Pereira | United Kingdom, Argentina |
| Voskresene, polovina sedmogo | Vadim Zobin | Soviet Union |
| Zan Boko | Gaston Kaboré | Burkina Faso |
| A Man in Love | Diane Kurys | France, Italy |