| Best Defense | Willard Huyck | spy film, action comedy film, war film | United States |
| Blue Cities | Alexander Belinsky | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Clue | Jonathan Lynn | mystery film, comedy thriller, parody film, crime film | United States |
| Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | action film, spy film, war 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 |
| Ehun metro | Alfonso Ungría | drama film | Spain |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Extend, Extend, Fascination... | Yaropolk Lapshin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Fandango | Kevin Reynolds | comedy drama | United States |
| Fever Pitch | Richard Brooks | drama film | United States |
| Games for Teenagers | Arvo Iho, Leida Laius | drama film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Goodbye, green summer | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | — | Soviet Union |
| Grace Quigley | Anthony Harvey | comedy film | United States |
| Inch by Inch | Matt Sterling | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Jagode u grlu | Srđan Karanović | comedy drama | Yugoslavia |
| Joan Lui | Adriano Celentano | comedy film | Italy |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | drama film, road movie | Canada |
| Match sostoitsya v lyubuyu pogodu | Rolands Kalniņš | — | Soviet Union |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | comedy film | United States |
| My Sweet Little Village | Jiří Menzel | comedy film, comedy drama | Czechoslovakia |
| Nalla Thambi | S. P. Muthuraman | — | India |
| O.C. and Stiggs | Robert Altman | teen film | United States |
| Onnanam Kunnil Oradi Kunnil | Priyadarshan | — | India |
| Pro kota... | Svyatoslav Chekin | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Robbery Under Arms | Ken Hannam, Donald Crombie | bushranging film, Western film | Australia |
| Salon krasoty | Alexandr Pankratov-Chorny | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | comedy film, horror film | United States |
| Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird | Ken Kwapis | children's film, musical film | United States |
| Sindhu Bhairavi | K. Balachander | musical film | India |
| Subway | Luc Besson | romance film, comedy thriller | France |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | romance film, drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Sylvester | Tim Hunter | drama film | United States |
| Target | Arthur Penn | mystery film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Great Adventure (1985 film) | Vyacheslav Nikiforov | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Last Sunday | Gennadi Melkonyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film | United States |
| The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Lourdes Portillo, Susana Blaustein Muñoz | documentary film | Argentina |
| The Mysterious Caravan | Guang Chunlan | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Return of the Living Dead | Dan O'Bannon | comedy horror, zombie film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Slugger's Wife | Hal Ashby | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama film | Taiwan |
| Three for Happiness | Rajko Grlić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Trees Grow on the Stones Too | Knut Andersen, Ola Solum, Stanislav Rostotsky | adventure film | Soviet Union, Norway |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Vechernitsy | Yuriy Suyarko | musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| When Nature Calls | Charlie Kaufman | comedy film | United States |