| The Flight of Dragons | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., Katsuhisa Yamada | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, adventure film, comedy drama | Japan, United States |
| Flashdance | Adrian Lyne | romance film, drama film, dance film, musical film | United States |
| Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi | sword and sorcery film, adult animated film, fantasy film, adventure film, erotic film | United States |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| La Viuda Negra | Arturo Ripstein | drama film | Mexico |
| Outland | Peter Hyams | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Superman III | Richard Lester | comedy film, action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Shaolin and Wu Tang | Gordon Liu | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Ladies' Tango | Sulambek Mamilov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Vassa | Gleb Panfilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Gudachari No.1 | Kodi Ramakrishna | spy film | India |
| Piratene | Morten Kolstad | drama film | Norway |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe | Sergei Tarasov | romance film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film | Soviet Union |
| Friday the 13th Part III | Steve Miner | horror film | United States |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Woman with Pierced Nipples | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film, drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| The Toy | Richard Donner | comedy film | United States |
| Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | comedy film | United States |
| Victory March | Marco Bellocchio | drama film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle | Dmitry Barshchevsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark | martial arts film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | Hong Kong |
| The Turning Point | Frank Beyer | drama film, war film | East Germany |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The World of ‘The Dark Crystal’ | Jim Henson | documentary film | United States |
| Drum | Steve Carver | drama film, action film, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Masquerade | Boštjan Hladnik | drama film, erotic film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Yuvaraju | Dasari Narayana Rao | drama film | India |
| Premonition of Love | Tofik Shakhverdiyev | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Best Friends | Norman Jewison | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | drama film, family film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Incident at Map Grid 36-80 | Mikhail Tumanishvili | action film, thriller film | Soviet Union |
| Napasta | Alexa Visarion | drama film | Romania |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | drama film | United States |
| Lusty Discipline in Uniform | Mamoru Watanabe | pink film | Japan |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film | United States |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | spy film, thriller film, war film, crime film | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Invincible Shaolin | Chang Cheh | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Red Bells | Sergei Bondarchuk | drama film, adventure film | Soviet Union, Italy, Mexico |
| Jönssonligan & Dynamit-Harry | Mikael Ekman | crime comedy film | Sweden |
| Stove Builders | — | — | Soviet Union |