| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| Run | Geoff Burrowes | United States |
| Daedalus | Pepe Danquart | Germany, Switzerland |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | Canada, United States |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | United States |
| Moon 44 | Roland Emmerich | Germany, United States |
| The Punisher | Mark Goldblatt | United States, Australia |
| Cold Summer of 1953 | Aleksandr Proshkin | Soviet Union |
| Kickboxer | David Worth, Mark DiSalle | United States |
| Monkey Shines | George A. Romero | United States |
| The Presidio | Peter Hyams | United States |
| Maniac Cop | William Lustig | United States |
| Desyat Negrityat | Stanislav Govorukhin | Soviet Union |
| Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano, Paul Sommer | United States |
| Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| Predator | — | United States |
| Surf Nazis Must Die | Peter George | United States |
| The Hitcher | Robert Harmon | United States |
| Cobra | George P. Cosmatos | United States |
| Vikram | Rajashekar | India |
| Turn of the Screw | Eloy de la Iglesia | Spain |
| The Return of Godzilla | Koji Hashimoto | Japan |
| The Protector | Jackie Chan, James Glickenhaus | United States |
| Red Dawn | John Milius | United States |
| Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | United States |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | United States |
| The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | United States |
| Forced Vengeance | James Fargo | United States |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| Incident at Map Grid 36-80 | Mikhail Tumanishvili | Soviet Union |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | United States |
| Southern Comfort | Walter Hill | United States |
| For Your Eyes Only | John Glen | United Kingdom |
| The Warriors | Walter Hill | United States |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | Canada |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Germany, United States, Sweden |
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| The Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton | United States |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | British Hong Kong |
| Scorpio | Michael Winner | United States |
| Hell + Me | Mohammad-Ali Fardin | Iran |