| Robot Carnival | Hiroyuki Kitazume, Kōji Morimoto, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Katsuhiro Otomo, Takashi Nakamura | mecha | Japan |
| Rozstupitʹsya, zelen-hory! | — | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Running from the Guns | John Dixon | action film | Australia |
| Shankar Guru | L. Raja | action film | India |
| Sister, Sister | Bill Condon | mystery film, drama film, horror film | United States |
| Soldati - 365 all'alba | Marco Risi | drama film | Italy |
| Story of a Junkie | Lech Kowalski | independent film | United States |
| The Birdwatcher | Arvo Iho | drama film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| The Cure in Orange | Tim Pope | musical film, documentary film | United Kingdom |
| The Guest | Alexander Kaidanovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Jester and the Queen | Věra Chytilová | comedy film, parable | Czechoslovakia |
| The Misfit Brigade | Gordon Hessler | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Yugoslavia |
| The Rosary Murders | Fred Walton | mystery film, crime film | United States |
| The Veldt | Nazim Tulyahodzhayev | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Thirumathi Oru Vegumathi | Visu | drama film | India |
| Train of Dreams | John N. Smith | drama film | Canada |
| Under the Chinese Restaurant | Bruno Bozzetto | comedy film | Italy |
| Veeran Veluthambi | Rama Narayanan | — | India |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | black comedy film, buddy film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Əbədiyyət yolu | Cahangir Zeynallı | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| 7 chili in 7 giorni | Luca Verdone | comedy film | Italy |
| Aliens | James Cameron | science fiction horror film, suspense film, monster film, action film, horror film, science fiction action film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, science fiction film | United States |
| Aruvadai Naal | G. M. Kumar | drama film | India |
| Big Trouble | John Cassavetes | comedy film | United States |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | romance film, psychological horror film, erotic thriller film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film +3 | United States |
| Brahma Rudrulu | K. Murali Mohana Rao | — | India |
| Call Me Tonight | Tatsuya Okamoto | comedy horror, erotic film | Japan |
| Captive | Paul Mayersberg | thriller film | France, United Kingdom |
| Class of Nuke 'Em High | Lloyd Kaufman, Richard W. Haines, Michael Herz | comedy horror, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Combat Shock | Buddy Giovinazzo | drama film, war film, splatter film | United States |
| Crawlspace | David Schmoeller | horror film | United States, Italy |
| Death of a Soldier | Philippe Mora | drama film, crime film | Australia |
| Detective School Dropouts | Filippo Ottoni | comedy film | United States, Italy |
| Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola | Semyon Aranovich, Alexander Sokurov | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Every Time We Say Goodbye | Moshé Mizrahi | drama film | United States |
| F/X | Robert Mandel | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Fear | Gunārs Cilinskis | — | Soviet Union |
| Flying | Paul Lynch | romance film, drama film | Canada |
| From Beyond | Stuart Gordon | science fiction film, splatter film | United States, Italy |
| Gloves | Rafi Adar | — | Israel |
| Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima | Michael Camerini | documentary film | United States |
| How to Become Happy | Yuri Chulyukin | comedy film, science fiction film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| In Search of Captain Grant | Stanislav Govorukhin | — | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| Kanikuly u morya | Martiros Fanosyan | family film | Soviet Union |
| Mikhaylo Lomonosov | Aleksandr Proshkin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Milyarder | Kartal Tibet | comedy drama | Turkey |
| My Dearly Beloved Detective | Aleksei Simonov | comedy film, crime film | Soviet Union |