| Women | Stanley Kwan | drama film | Hong Kong |
| Xiang si nü zi ke dian | Dong Kena | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | exploitation film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, teen film, teen horror film, drama film, fantasy film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film+7 | United States |
| Adam and Eve Against the Cannibals | Enzo Doria, Luigi Russo | romance film, adventure film | Italy |
| And Then Came Bumbo... | Nadezhda Kosheverova | cinematic fairy tale, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Applause, Applause... | Viktor Buturlin | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Birdy | Alan Parker | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Black Castle Olshansky | Michail Ptashuk | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Challenge | A. Kodandarami Reddy | soundtrack | India |
| Cireșarii | Adrian Petringenaru | children's film | Romania |
| Crackers | Louis Malle | heist film | United States |
| Crónica dos Bons Malandros | Fernando Lopes | comedy film | Portugal |
| Dreams Come True | Max Kalmanowicz | comedy film | United States |
| Egorka | Solomon Yanovskiy | family film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Carlo Di Palma, Francesco Laudadio, Franco Giraldi, Gianni Amico, Gianni Toti, Giorgio Ferrara, Alfredo Angeli, Luigi Monardo Faccini, Libero Bizzarri, Nicolò Ferrari, Piero Vivarelli, Roberto Benigni +18 | documentary film | Italy |
| First | Gennady Bazarov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | documentary film | United States |
| Komarov Brothers | Yuri Tupitsky | war film | Soviet Union |
| L'Amour à mort | Alain Resnais | drama film | France |
| Le jour S… | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | drama film | Canada |
| Loose Connections | Richard Eyre | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Love and Pigeons | Vladimir Menshov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Lurich | Valentin Kuik | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Maqsad | Kovelamudi Bapayya | buddy film | India |
| Monaco Forever | William A. Levey | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | romance film, drama film, historical film, prison film | United States |
| Naagu | T. L. V. Prasad | — | India |
| No Family | Vladimir Bortko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| No More Jokes! | — | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| No Rest for Billy Brakko | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | animated short film | France |
| Offered for Singles | Samson Samsonov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Park | Rasim Ojagov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Pervaya konnaya | Vladimir Lubomudrov | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Prikazano Vzyat Zhivym | Viktor Zhivolub | war film | Soviet Union |
| Princess and the Photographer | — | romance film | Japan |
| Qaidi | S. S. Ravichandra | action film | India |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Srivariki Premalekha | Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry | romantic comedy film, comedy film | India |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Success | Konstantin Khudyakov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film | United States |
| The Blood of Others | Claude Chabrol | drama film, war film | France, Canada, United States |
| The Masculine Mystique | Giles Walker, John N. Smith | drama film, docufiction | Canada |
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Milchin | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Target Is Your Brain | Feliks Soboliev | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| There Lived a Doctor | Vyacheslav Sorokin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Two Versions of One Collision | Villen Novak | drama film | Soviet Union |