| Alien Nation | Graham Baker | action film, science fiction film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Keenen Ivory Wayans | action film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu-tung | romance film, fantasy film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
| My Stepmother Is an Alien | Richard Benjamin | science fiction film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Ironweed | Héctor Babenco | drama film | United States |
| Twins | Ivan Reitman | comedy film, science fiction film, buddy film | United States |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker | comedy film | United States |
| Men Behind the Sun | Mou Tun-fei | exploitation film, horror film | People's Republic of China |
| Express train | Boris Yashin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, epic film, religious film | Canada, United States |
| Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert | fantasy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Commissar | Aleksandr Askoldov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell | comedy film, action film, adventure film | Australia |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dwight H. Little | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| The Blob | Chuck Russell | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Striker with Number 9 | Pantelis Voulgaris | drama film | Greece |
| The Son of the Stars | Mircea Toia, Calin Cazan | animated film, science fiction film | Romania |
| Stop Mewling, Squirrel! | Věra Plívová-Šimková | cinematic fairy tale | Czechoslovakia |
| Loose Ends 5: The New Generation | Bruce Seven | pornographic film | United States |
| The Beast | Kevin Reynolds | drama film, war film | United States |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | body horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, psychological drama film | Canada |
| The Wizard of Loneliness | Jenny Bowen | coming-of-age film, drama film | United States |
| Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice | Akio Jissōji | pink film | Japan |
| Unfaithful Mornings | François Bouvier, Jean Beaudry | fiction film, drama film | Canada |
| Katinka | Max von Sydow | romance film, drama film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | comedy film, historical film | France, Denmark |
| Pereprava | Viktor Turov, Marek Brodzki | drama film, war film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Amsterdamned | Dick Maas | action film, thriller film, slasher film | Netherlands |
| Colors | Dennis Hopper | drama film, action film, hood film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| The Garden of Desires | Ali Hamroyev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Throw Momma from the Train | Danny DeVito | comedy film, black comedy, crime film | United States |
| Can't Buy Me Love | Steve Rash | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, drama film, sex comedy | United States |
| Where is the Nophelet? | Gerald Bezhanov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Possessed | Andrzej Wajda | drama film | France |
| Planes, Trains and Automobiles | John Hughes | comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| The Man from Snowy River II | Geoff Burrowes | Western film | Australia |
| Monster in the Closet | Bob Dahlin | monster film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Clockwise | Christopher Morahan | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Loose Ends 4: The Ultimate Tail | Bruce Seven, Raven Touchstone | pornographic film, adventure film | United States |
| Kamilla and the Thief | Grete Salomonsen Hynnekleiv | drama film | Norway |
| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Sidney J. Furie | action film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong |
| The Gold Rimmed Glasses | Giuliano Montaldo | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | France, Italy |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino | mecha, military science fiction | Japan |
| Rouge | Stanley Kwan | romantic drama film, fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| The Devil | Andrzej Żuławski | drama film, historical film, satanic film, horror film | Poland |
| School Daze | Spike Lee | coming-of-age film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Best Seller | John Flynn | neo-noir, crime film | United States |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | romance film, drama film, erotic film | United States |