| Last Rites | Donald P. Bellisario | United States |
| Little Nikita | Richard Benjamin | United States |
| Flaming Brothers | Joe Cheung Tung-joe | Hong Kong |
| Aliens | James Cameron | United States |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States |
| Captive | Paul Mayersberg | France, United Kingdom |
| F/X | Robert Mandel | United States |
| The Color of Money | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | France, Germany, Italy |
| Target | Arthur Penn | United States |
| Dreamscape | Joseph Ruben | United States |
| El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | France, Tunisia |
| Exterminator 2 | Mark Buntzman | United States |
| Opium and the Kung-Fu Master | Tong Gai | Hong Kong |
| 10 to Midnight | J. Lee Thompson | United States |
| Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | United States |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Australia |
| My Heritage, Insanity | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | Iran |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | United States |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | France |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | Germany, United States |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | Sweden |
| Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter | Noribumi Suzuki | Japan |
| Avalanche | Corey Allen | United States |
| Inquest of Pilot Pirx | Marek Piestrak | Soviet Union, Estonia, Poland |
| The Bloodstained Shadow | Antonio Bido | Italy |
| Koose-ye Jonoob | Samuel Khachikian | Iran |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | United States |
| The Disappearance | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Garage | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| Hell Up in Harlem | Larry Cohen | United States |
| Lady Snowblood | Toshiya Fujita | Japan |
| Mr. Jahel | Reza Mirlohi | Iran |
| Tango 2001 | Kostas Karagiannis | Greece |
| Tangsir | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Straight On till Morning | Peter Collinson | United Kingdom |
| The Possession of Joel Delaney | Waris Hussein | United States |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Quiet Place to Kill | Umberto Lenzi | France, Italy |
| Jeff | Jean Vautrin | France |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | United Kingdom |
| What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | Lee H. Katzin | United States |
| Coogan's Bluff | Don Siegel | United States |
| Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | United States |
| You Only Live Twice | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom, United States |
| Thattungal Thirakkappadum | J. P. Chandrababu | India |
| The Nanny | Seth Holt | United Kingdom |
| Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |