| Dien Bien Phu | Pierre Schoendoerffer | war film | France |
| Deceived | Damian Harris | mystery film, thriller film | United States |
| Summer Games | Scotty Fox | comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | Bangsian fantasy, fantasy film, fantasy comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Edward II | Derek Jarman | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Passed Away | Charlie Peters | comedy of manners | United States |
| Noises Off | Peter Bogdanovich | comedy film | United States |
| Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler | Daisuke Nishio | comedy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Blame It on the Bellboy | Mark Herman | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| An Independent Life | Vitali Kanevsky | drama film, historical drama | France, Soviet Union, Russia |
| Billy Bathgate | Robert Benton | drama film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster | drama film | United States |
| The Child of Man | Jānis Streičs | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film | Latvia |
| My Girl | Howard Zieff | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film | United States |
| Byttinger | Sigve Endresen | drama film | Norway |
| Father of the Bride | Charles Shyer | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, comedy film | United States |
| The Brave Little Toaster | Jerry Rees | family film, fantasy film, children's film, musical film | United States |
| Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | kaiju, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Shipwrecked | Nils Gaup | pirate film, children's film | Norway, United States, Sweden |
| The Hideaway | Niels Gråbøl | drama film, family film | Sweden, Denmark |
| The Polar Bear King | Ola Solum | adventure film | Germany, Norway, Sweden |
| Jungle Fever | Spike Lee | romance film, drama film | United States |
| City Slickers | Ron Underwood | comedy film, Western film, buddy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Late for Dinner | W. D. Richter | science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | sport film, action film, thriller film, heist film, buddy cop film, surf film, crime film | Japan, United States |
| Toy Soldiers | Daniel Petrie | action film | United States |
| Stone Cold | Craig R. Baxley | mystery film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Get Thee Out | Dmitry Astrakhan | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia | Anders Grönros | mystery film, drama film | Sweden |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Tsui Hark | martial arts film, action film, biographical film | Hong Kong |
| Return to the Blue Lagoon | William A. Graham | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Rover Dangerfield | Bob Seeley, James L. George | children's film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Decisive Engagement: The Huai-Hai Campaign | Jing Mu-Kui, Cai Jiwei, Li Jun, Wei Lian, Zhai Junjie, Yang Guangyuan | historical film, war film | People's Republic of China |
| V.I. Warshawski | Jeff Kanew | mystery film, action comedy film, romantic comedy, crime film | United States |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, independent film, road movie, buddy film | United States |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | coming-of-age film, romance film, fantasy film, action film, children's film, adventure film, mecha, science fiction film, anti-war film | Japan |
| Fight Back to School | Gordon Chan | police film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, hood film, crime film | United States |
| New Wave Hookers 2 | Gregory Dark | comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | David Zucker | comedy film | United States |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Ian Pringle | drama film, biographical film | France, Australia |
| Freon Ghost | Zdeněk Zelenka | fantasy film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Čarodějky z předměstí | Viktor Walter, Drahomíra Králová | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Steve Miner | romance film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Venus and Lulu | Daniel Losset | comedy film | France |
| Gol v Spasskie vorota | Pavel Lyubimov | — | Soviet Union |
| To Be Number One | Poon Man-kit | drama film, biographical film, gangster film, crime film | Hong Kong |
| Highlander II: The Quickening | Russell Mulcahy | fantasy film, cyberpunk, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | France, United Kingdom, United States |