| 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 |
| A Special Unit | Vladimir Ivanov, Georgy Shchukin | war film | Soviet Union |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| And Life, and Tears, and Love | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Slunce, seno, jahody | Zdeněk Troška | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | drama film | France, Germany |
| A Woman in Transit | Léa Pool | drama film | Canada |
| Broadway Danny Rose | Woody Allen | comedy film | United States |
| Beat Street | Stan Lathan | teen film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Breakin' | Joel Silberg | coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Tri veteráni | Oldřich Lipský | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, cinematic fairy tale, speculative fiction film | Czechoslovakia |
| Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, action film | United States, Mexico |
| Rhinestone | Bob Clark | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Comfort and Joy | Bill Forsyth | comedy film, Christmas film | United Kingdom |
| Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Bounty | Roger Donaldson | drama film, historical film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bright-Eyes | Dong Kena | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Alarmstart | Vladimir Chebotaryov | action film | Soviet Union |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Moscow on the Hudson | Paul Mazursky | drama film, flashback film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Unfaithfully Yours | Howard Zieff | romantic comedy | United States |
| Tan Sitong | Chen Jialin | drama film, historical film, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| Fire | Dmitri Kesayants | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Sista leken | Jon Lindström | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | France, Italy, Turkey |
| Mike's Murder | James Bridges | mystery film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | police procedural film, suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, epic film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| The Magic Game | Hannu Peltomaa | fantasy film, children's film | Finland |
| The Blonde Around the Corner | Vladimir Bortko | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Cinderella '80 | Roberto Malenotti | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film | Italy |
| Teenage Sex Report | Ernst Hofbauer | sexploitation film, mockumentary, erotic film, enlightenment film | Germany |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Zydeco | — | music-themed film, documentary film | — |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | drama film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Adela | Mircea Veroiu | drama film | Romania |
| Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film, action film, neo-noir, erotic thriller | United States |
| Ballad of the Little Soldier | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| Birdy | Alan Parker | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Cireșarii | Adrian Petringenaru | children's film | Romania |
| Crónica dos Bons Malandros | Fernando Lopes | comedy film | Portugal |
| Dom na dyunakh | — | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld | Tsutomu Shibayama | — | Japan |
| Dreamscape | Joseph Ruben | horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Eight Days of Hope | Aleksandr Muratov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, thriller film | France, Tunisia |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Exterminator 2 | Mark Buntzman | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Formula of Love | Mark Zakharov | fantasy film, tragicomedy, romantic comedy | Soviet Union |
| Give My Regards to Broad Street | Peter Webb | drama film, musical film | United Kingdom |
| Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: Krasnyy pesok | Boris Stepanov | war film | Soviet Union |
| Il lungo inverno | Ivo Barnabò Micheli | drama film | Italy, West Germany |
| Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging | Shūsuke Kaneko | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| L'allenatore nel pallone | Sergio Martino | comedy film, association football film | Italy |
| Lawina | Piotr Studziński | biographical film | Poland |
| Life | Wu Tianming | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Makar-sledopyt | — | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Malambo | Milan Dor | drama film | Austria |
| Mario | Jean Beaudin | drama film | Canada |
| Mayuri | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | biographical film, musical film | India |
| Missing in Action | Joseph Zito | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Mr. Veliky Novgorod | Aleksei Saltykov | war film | Soviet Union |
| My Little Wife | Raimundas Banionis | drama film | Soviet Union, Lithuania |
| No Family | Vladimir Bortko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Olga i Konstantin | Yevgeny Mezentsev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Opium and the Kung-Fu Master | Tong Gai | martial arts film, thriller film | Hong Kong |
| Prezhde chem rasstatsya | Aleksandr Kosarev | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Rupture | Vladimir Vengerov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Saving Mother | Jin Xi | animated film | People's Republic of China |
| Seven Elements | Gennady Ivanov | speculative fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Skydivers | Yuri Ivanchuk | sport film | Soviet Union |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film | United States |
| The Adventures of the Little Muk | Yelizaveta Kimyagarova | family film, cinematic fairy tale, children's film, adventure film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The First Turn-On! | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | comedy film | United States |
| The Glitter Dome | Stuart Margolin | crime film | United States |
| The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray | drama film | India |
| The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
| The Snowdrop Festival | Jiří Menzel | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Sparkling World | Bulat Mansurov | speculative fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Target Is Your Brain | Feliks Soboliev | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| The Three of Us | Pupi Avati | coming-of-age film, comedy film | Italy |
| The Trust That Has Burst | Aleksandr Pavlovsky | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Thirty-six characters | Ah Da | traditional animation | People's Republic of China |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | romance film, drama film | France, United States |
| Ziarno fotografii | — | — | Poland |