| Karnabal | Carles Mira | comedy film | Spain |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | drama film | Germany |
| Turn of the Screw | Eloy de la Iglesia | horror film, thriller film | Spain |
| Red Sonja | Richard Fleischer | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United States, Netherlands |
| The Return of Godzilla | Koji Hashimoto | kaiju, fantasy film, thriller film, science fiction film | Japan |
| The Black Cauldron | Richard Rich, Ted Berman | coming-of-age film, fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy | United States |
| Gotcha! | Jeff Kanew | romantic comedy film, comedy film, action film, spy film | United States |
| The Man with One Red Shoe | Stan Dragoti | comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film | United States |
| Silverado | Lawrence Kasdan | Western film, action film | United States |
| The Legend of Suram Fortress | Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov | art film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Protector | Jackie Chan, James Glickenhaus | martial arts film, drama film, comedy film, action film, thriller film, detective film, buddy cop film | United States |
| Dangerous for Your Life! | Leonid Gaidai | comedy film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Fešák Hubert | Ivo Novák | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Smazalnia story | Józef Gębski | comedy of manners | Poland |
| Uramisten | Péter Gárdos | drama film | Hungary |
| Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| My Lucky Stars | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, police film, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy film | Hong Kong |
| Maria's Lovers | Andrei Konchalovsky | drama film | United States |
| Teachers | Arthur Hiller | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | Bill L. Norton | family film, fantasy film, adventure film | United States |
| Colonel Redl | István Szabó | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Austria |
| Supergirl | Jeannot Szwarc | teen film, fantasy film, action film, children's film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan | Frank Oz | comedy film, children's film, musical film | United States |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | science fiction film | Germany |
| Farewell, Illusions | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | drama film | Norway |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | romance film, drama film, neo-noir, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | coming-of-age film, lesbian-related film, romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| The Smuggler King | Sune Lund-Sørensen | comedy film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Body Girls | Bob Chinn | sport film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Fraternity Vacation | James Frawley | teen film, comedy film, sex comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Un parell d'ous | Francesc Bellmunt | musical comedy | Spain |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | road movie, comedy drama | Germany |
| Holiday on the Buses | Bryan Izzard | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! The Treasure of Nanaba Castle | Hiroki Shibata | — | Japan |
| Dune | David Lynch | action film | United States |
| City Heat | Richard Benjamin | comedy film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Red Dawn | John Milius | coming-of-age film, action film, propaganda film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, disaster film | United States |
| Sixteen Candles | John Hughes | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| Åke and His World | Allan Edwall | drama film, family film | Sweden |
| Jönssonligan får guldfeber | Mikael Ekman | crime comedy film | Sweden, Denmark |
| The Natural | Barry Levinson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | political thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, independent film, science fiction film, political drama | United Kingdom |
| America and Lewis Hine | Nina Rosenblum | historical film, biographical film, documentary film | United States |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | romance film, teen film, drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Country | Richard Pearce | drama film | United States |
| Thais | Ryszard Ber | — | Poland |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | comedy film, adventure film, war film | France, Tunisia |