| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | drama film, white savior film, Western film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film | United Kingdom |
| To the Limit and Beyond | Jure Pervanje | crime comedy film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | horror film, thriller film | Canada, United States |
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | romance film, drama film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, Christmas film | United States |
| Cloud-Paradise | Nikolay Dostal | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | drama film, historical drama | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Pueblo de madera | Juan Antonio de la Riva | drama film | Spain, Mexico |
| Darkman | Sam Raimi | drama film, superhero film, action film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Hardware | Richard Stanley | post-apocalyptic film, cyberpunk, action film, horror film, dystopian film, B movie, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | drama film, fantasy film, adventure film, buddy film, musical film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Alice | Jan Švankmajer | puppet film, fantasy film, adventure film, grotesque film | United Kingdom, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, West Germany |
| Between the Cheeks 2 | Gregory Dark | fantasy film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Do It – One! | Andrei Malyukov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Gamblers | Dominik Graf | comedy film | Germany |
| La teranyina | Antoni Verdaguer i Serra | historical film | Spain |
| Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Mo' Better Blues | Spike Lee | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Freeze Die Come to Life | Vitali Kanevsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | romance film, drama film, sport film, action film | United States |
| Weininger's Last Night | Paulus Manker | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Buttman's Ultimate Workout | John Stagliano | pornographic film | United States |
| The Reflecting Skin | Philip Ridley | coming-of-age film, drama film, film noir, horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Joe Dante | monster film, fantasy film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Heart Condition | James D. Parriott | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, ghost film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Cry-Baby | John Waters | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Clean and Sober | Glenn Gordon Caron | drama film | United States |
| His Nickname Is Beast | Aleksandr Muratov | action film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Frenzied Bus | Georgi Natanson | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Trace of Stones | Frank Beyer | drama film | East Germany |
| Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | John Harrison | monster film, horror film | United States |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| The Juniper Tree | Nietzchka Keene | drama film | Iceland |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | drama film, white savior film, historical film, war film, epic film | United States |
| Banned from Heaven | Tapio Suominen | crime film | Finland |
| Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet | Tsutomu Shibayama | — | Japan |
| The Hunt for Red October | — | political thriller film, drama film, submarine film, action film, spy film, thriller film, war film | United States |
| A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film | Soviet Union, Germany, Switzerland |
| Meteo | András Mész | drama film | Hungary |
| Moon 44 | Roland Emmerich | cyberpunk, action film, dystopian film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film, prison film | Germany, United States |
| Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, comedy drama | United States |
| An Enemy of the People | Satyajit Ray | drama film | India |
| A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell | Brett Piper | fantasy film, science fiction film | United States |
| Adam's Rib | Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Agbara orun | Tajudeen Eguntade | — | Nigeria |
| Akeke | Tunde Babs | — | Nigeria |
| An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Angel Square | Anne Wheeler | adventure film | Canada |
| Arin agbami | — | — | Nigeria |
| Asore-masika | Tunde Babs | — | Nigeria |
| Asubiaro koku | — | — | Nigeria |
| Au chic resto pop | Tahani Rached | documentary film | Canada |
| Aṣẹwo to re Mecca | — | — | Nigeria |
| Betsy's Wedding | Alan Alda | romantic comedy | United States |
| Boss Carmad | Chaerul Umam | — | Indonesia |
| Bujna | Viktor Vasylenko | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Bullseye! | Michael Winner | comedy film, action film, spy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bursa | Mikhail Vedyshev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Chernov/Chernov | Sergei Yursky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Circuitry Man | Steven Lovy | post-apocalyptic film, cyberpunk, science fiction film | United States |
| Coma | Nijole Adomenaite | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Crazy People | Tony Bill | comedy film | United States |
| Cuchillos de fuego | Román Chalbaud | drama film | Venezuela |
| Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? | Jack Fisk | comedy film | United States |
| Decay | Mykhailo Bielikov | drama film, disaster film | Soviet Union |
| Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | Aaron Norris | action film | United States |
| Dil | Indra Kumar | romance film, drama film | India |
| Downtown | Richard Benjamin | drama film, comedy film, action comedy film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Dragonfight | Warren A. Stevens | science fiction film | United States |
| Ernest Goes to Jail | John R. Cherry III | comedy film, children's film, prison film | United States |
| Ewà | — | — | Nigeria |
| Fantozzi alla riscossa | Neri Parenti | comedy film | Italy |
| Far Out Man | Tommy Chong | comedy film | United States |
| Good Morning, Beijing | Zhang Nuanxin | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Greediness | Alafe Oguntoyinbo | — | Nigeria |
| Ha adebimpe | — | — | Nigeria |
| Ija emere ati aje | — | — | Nigeria |
| Koto-nkan | Atoly Atolagbe | — | Nigeria |
| Larks on a String | Jiří Menzel | comedy film, parable | Czechoslovakia |
| Lati ile-iṣẹ | — | — | Nigeria |
| Le comiche | Neri Parenti | comedy film | Italy |
| Look Out, Officer! | Sze Yu Lau | ghost film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Love at Large | Alan Rudolph | mystery film | United States |
| Mankurt | Khodzhakuli Narliev | — | Turkmenistan |
| Marupakkam | K. S. Sethumadhavan | drama film | India |
| Marupuram | Viji Thampi | — | India |
| Melancholy Waltz | Boris Savchenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | drama film, action film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Men of Respect | William Reilly | drama film, crime film | United States |
| My Blue Heaven | Herbert Ross | comedy film | United States |
| Niʼboji-oku | Agunbiade Bola | — | Nigeria |
| Oda | Rafiz Ismailov, Vahid Talıbov | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Ovejas negras | José María Carreño Bermúdez | black comedy | Spain |
| Owe akala | S.O.B Agunbiade | — | Nigeria |
| Peking Duck Restaurant | Gu Rong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Pido Dida: Sabay Tayo | — | romantic comedy film | Philippines |
| Posrednik | Vladimir Potapov | speculative fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Powrót wilczycy | Marek Piestrak | horror film | Poland |
| Rafales | André Melançon | drama film, crime film | Canada |
| Robot Jox | Stuart Gordon | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, mecha | United States |
| Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember | Terry Sanders | documentary film | United States |
| Sabato, domenica e lunedì | Lina Wertmüller | comedy film | Italy |
| Savoy | — | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Side Out | Peter Israelson | comedy film | United States |
| Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon | Lau Kar-wing | martial arts film, action film | British Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Speaking of the Devil | Enzo Barboni | comedy film | United States, Italy |
| Spotted Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea | Karen Gevorkian | drama film | Soviet Union, Germany |
| Step Across the Border | Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel | documentary film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Step father | Yemi Meshioye | — | Nigeria |
| Tank "Klim Voroshilov-2" (film) | Igor Sheshukov | war film | Soviet Union |
| The Ages of Lulu | Bigas Luna | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, erotic film | Spain, Italy |
| The Battle of the Three Kings | Uchkun Nazarov, Souheil Ben-Barka | drama film | Spain, Italy |
| The Deerslayer | Andrei Rostotsky | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | drama film, film noir, neo-noir, heist film, crime film | United States |
| The muddle-headed wombat | Serguei Kouchnerov | — | Soviet Union |
| The Muppets at Walt Disney World | Peter Harris | comedy film | United States |
| The Palermo Connection | Francesco Rosi | thriller film | France, Italy |
| The Spirit of '76 | Lucas Reiner | science fiction film | United States |
| The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, crime film | United States |
| The wicked boy | — | — | Nigeria |
| There Were Days... and Moons | Claude Lelouch | drama film, comedy drama | France |
| Ubiytsa | Sergey Martyanov | drama film, thriller film | Soviet Union |
| Unidentified Person | Natalya Zbandut | — | Soviet Union |