| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Krypskyttere | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | drama film | Norway |
| Arabella, Daughter of a Pirate | Toomas Vohu, Peeter Simm, Ly Pulk | pirate film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Private Life | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | mystery film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Do not Panic, Major Kardos | Sándor Szőnyi G., István Bujtor | comedy film | Hungary |
| Shaolin Wooden Men | Chi-Hwa Chen | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Imperial Japanese Empire | Toshio Masuda | war film | Japan |
| The Train Has Stopped | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard | comedy film | United States |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Głosy | Janusz Kijowski | — | Poland |
| The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy | United States |
| The Sex Machine | Pasquale Festa Campanile | comedy film, science fiction film, erotic film | Italy |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch | teen film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Zelená vlna | Václav Vorlíček | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | drama film, medieval film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Bu gu cui chun | Jia Shihong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | John Badham | drama film | United States |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | drama film, historical film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Front in the Rear of the Enemy | Igor Gostev | drama film, historical film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Jericho Mile | — | drama film | United States |
| Dragon Lord | Jackie Chan | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | drama film | Spain |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| Porky's | Bob Clark | coming-of-age film, teen film, comedy film | Canada, United States |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | time-travel film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, steampunk film | United Kingdom |
| Galawgaw | Ishmael Bernal | comedy film | Philippines |
| A Hot Summer Night | Shireen Strooker, Frans Weisz | comedy film | Netherlands |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | romance film, drama television series, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United States |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show | United States |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | drama film | Poland |
| The Little Fox | Attila Dargay | drama film, fantasy film, children's film | Hungary |
| Chōkō | Masashi Sada | documentary film | People's Republic of China, Japan |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | sword and sorcery film, drama film, fantasy film, action film, medieval film | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Sailors Have No Questions | Vladimir Rogovoy | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Stripes | Ivan Reitman | action comedy film, war film, buddy film | United States |
| Shock Treatment | Jim Sharman | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Enrai | Kichitarō Negishi | drama film | Japan |
| Gypsy Happiness | Sergei Nikonenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians | Oldřich Lipský | comedy film, science fiction film | Czechoslovakia |
| Galaxy of Terror | Bruce D. Clark | monster film, action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States, Australia |