| The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | action film, treasure hunt film, romantic comedy | France, United States |
| Brewster's Millions | Walter Hill | comedy film | United States |
| One Magic Christmas | Phillip Borsos | drama film, fantasy film, children's film, Christmas film | Canada, United States |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, adventure film, epic film, dark fantasy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Przeznaczenie | Jacek Koprowicz | biographical film | Poland |
| Objection | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | — | Poland |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| 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 |
| A Chorus Line | Richard Attenborough | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| A Simple Death | Alexander Kaidanovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Adieu Bonaparte | Youssef Chahine | drama film, war film | France, Egypt |
| American Ninja | Sam Firstenberg | martial arts film, action film, ninja film | United States |
| Aval Sumangalithan | Visu | — | India |
| Beer | Patrick Kelly | comedy film | United States |
| Between the Cheeks | Gregory Dark | pornographic film | United States |
| Blue Cities | Alexander Belinsky | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Chuzhie zdes ne khodyat | Anatoli Vekhotko, Roman Ershov | detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Commando Mengele | Jesús Franco, Andrea Bianchi | action film, adventure film | France, Spain, Italy |
| Commando Wild Wind | Valeriu Jereghi | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Crimewave | Sam Raimi | comedy film | United States |
| Dokument 'R' | Valeriy Kharchenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars | Tsutomu Shibayama | — | Japan |
| Déjà Vu | Anthony B. Richmond | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Follies of Miss Eva | Kazimierz Tarnas | — | Poland |
| Fracchia contro Dracula | Neri Parenti | comedy film, comedy horror, vampire film in Italy | Italy |
| I Was a Teenage TV Terrorist | Stanford Singer | comedy film | United States |
| Igor and the Lunatics | W.J. Parolini | horror film | United States |
| Inch by Inch | Matt Sterling | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Jagode u grlu | Srđan Karanović | comedy drama | Yugoslavia |
| Juvenile Delinquents | Zhang Liang | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Kazhdy okhotnik zhelaet znat... | Mykhailo Illienko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Koodum Thedi | Paul Babu | — | India |
| Listen in the Compartments | Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | war film | Soviet Union |
| Loose Ends 2: The Tail Continues | Bruce Seven | romance film, drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | drama film, road movie | Canada |
| Match sostoitsya v lyubuyu pogodu | Rolands Kalniņš | — | Soviet Union |
| Maxie | Paul Aaron | fantasy film, ghost film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | Lance Hool | action film, war film | United States |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | comedy film | United States |
| Nalla Thambi | S. P. Muthuraman | — | India |
| O Picasso | Camille Coudari, Gilles Carle | documentary film | Canada |
| O.C. and Stiggs | Robert Altman | teen film | United States |
| On a Narrow Bridge | Nissim Dayan | drama film | Israel |
| Once Bitten | Howard Storm | comedy film, vampire film, comedy horror | United States |
| One Second for a Feat | Gil-sen Om, Eldor Urazbayev | historical film | Soviet Union, North Korea |
| Petrina hronia | Pantelis Voulgaris | drama film | Greece |
| Ram Teri Ganga Maili | Raj Kapoor | erotic film | India |
| Restless Natives | Michael Hoffman | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Robbery Under Arms | Ken Hannam, Donald Crombie | bushranging film, Western film | Australia |
| Salma | Ramanand Sagar | musical film | India |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | comedy film, horror film | United States |
| Sindhu Bhairavi | K. Balachander | musical film | India |
| Song of the Bats | Yulian Kalisher | — | Soviet Union |
| Spies Like Us | John Landis | comedy film, spy film, buddy film | United States |
| Sunrise | Yu Benzheng | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | romance film, drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Target | Arthur Penn | mystery film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| Temptation of Don Juan | Grigori Koltunov, Vasili Levin | — | Soviet Union |
| Tera Senshi PSI Boy | — | fantasy film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Tex and the Lord of the Deep | Duccio Tessari | Western film | Italy |
| The Guilt of Lieutenant Nekrasov | Ravil Batyrov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Invisible Man | Aleksandr Zakharov | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Last Dragon | Michael Schultz | martial arts film, drama film, action film | United States |
| The Last Sunday | Gennadi Melkonyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Mysterious Caravan | Guang Chunlan | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Pleasure | Joe D'Amato | erotic film | Italy |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Aleksandr Orlov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama film | Taiwan |
| The Will | Igor Gostev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Zoo Gang | Pen Densham | teen film, comedy drama | United States |
| Turk 182 | Bob Clark | drama film | United States |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film, action comedy film, buddy film | Hong Kong |