| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, police procedural film, crime drama film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| Bak sju hav | Espen Thorstenson, Saeed Anjum | drama film | Norway |
| Run | Geoff Burrowes | action film, thriller film | United States |
| Whit Monday | Sergey Selyanov | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Exorcist III | William Peter Blatty | horror film | United States |
| La contre-allée | Isabel Sebastian | comedy drama | France |
| Daedalus | Pepe Danquart | thriller film, science fiction film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Everybody's Fine | Giuseppe Tornatore | drama film | France, Italy |
| Arachnophobia | Frank Marshall | comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | drama film, white savior film, Western film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film | United Kingdom |
| To the Limit and Beyond | Jure Pervanje | crime comedy film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | horror film, thriller film | Canada, United States |
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | romance film, drama film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, Christmas film | United States |
| Cloud-Paradise | Nikolay Dostal | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | drama film, historical drama | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Pueblo de madera | Juan Antonio de la Riva | drama film | Spain, Mexico |
| Darkman | Sam Raimi | drama film, superhero film, action film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Hardware | Richard Stanley | post-apocalyptic film, cyberpunk, action film, horror film, dystopian film, B movie, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | drama film, fantasy film, adventure film, buddy film, musical film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Alice | Jan Švankmajer | puppet film, fantasy film, adventure film, grotesque film | United Kingdom, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, West Germany |
| Between the Cheeks 2 | Gregory Dark | fantasy film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Do It – One! | Andrei Malyukov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Gamblers | Dominik Graf | comedy film | Germany |
| La teranyina | Antoni Verdaguer i Serra | historical film | Spain |
| Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Mo' Better Blues | Spike Lee | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Freeze Die Come to Life | Vitali Kanevsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | romance film, drama film, sport film, action film | United States |
| Weininger's Last Night | Paulus Manker | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Buttman's Ultimate Workout | John Stagliano | pornographic film | United States |
| The Reflecting Skin | Philip Ridley | coming-of-age film, drama film, film noir, horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Joe Dante | monster film, fantasy film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Heart Condition | James D. Parriott | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, ghost film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Cry-Baby | John Waters | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Clean and Sober | Glenn Gordon Caron | drama film | United States |
| His Nickname Is Beast | Aleksandr Muratov | action film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Frenzied Bus | Georgi Natanson | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Trace of Stones | Frank Beyer | drama film | East Germany |
| Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | John Harrison | monster film, horror film | United States |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| The Juniper Tree | Nietzchka Keene | drama film | Iceland |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | drama film, white savior film, historical film, war film, epic film | United States |
| Banned from Heaven | Tapio Suominen | crime film | Finland |
| Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet | Tsutomu Shibayama | — | Japan |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | political thriller film, drama film, submarine film, action film, spy film, thriller film, war film | United States |
| A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film | Soviet Union, Germany, Switzerland |
| Meteo | András Mész | drama film | Hungary |