| The Natural | Barry Levinson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Professor Dowell's Testament | Leonid Menaker | drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | romance film, teen film, drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Threads | Mick Jackson | post-apocalyptic film, drama fiction, disaster film | United Kingdom |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | drama film, historical film, adventure film | United States |
| Scarecrow | Rolan Bykov | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| What we remember | Roland Steiner | documentary film | East Germany |
| Farewell | Larisa Shepitko, Elem Klimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| Slunce, seno, jahody | Zdeněk Troška | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Brave Blacksmith | Petr Švéda | cinematic fairy tale | Czechoslovakia |
| Robot Taekwon-V 84cnM | Kim Cheong-gi | — | South Korea |
| Grandview, U.S.A. | Randal Kleiser | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Rhinestone | Bob Clark | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Pasajeros de una pesadilla | Fernando Ayala | drama film | Argentina |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | action film, treasure hunt film, adventure film | United States |
| Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Return of Olmes | Irakli Kvirikadze | — | Soviet Union |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Moscow on the Hudson | Paul Mazursky | drama film, flashback film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Revenge of the Ninja | Sam Firstenberg | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, ninja film | United States |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Romance in Philately | Sang Hu | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Witches' Sabbath | János Rózsa | romance film, family film, adventure film | Hungary |
| Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Lata dwudzieste, lata trzydzieste | Janusz Rzeszewski | comedy film | Poland |
| Fire | Dmitri Kesayants | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Sista leken | Jon Lindström | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, anti-war film | Japan |
| The Blonde Around the Corner | Vladimir Bortko | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Amityville II: The Possession | Damiano Damiani | horror film, ghost film | United States, Mexico |
| The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | body horror film, drama film, fantasy film, mysticism, horror film, zombie film, supernatural horror film, splatter film | United States |
| Wartime Romance | Pyotr Todorovsky | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | comedy film, mockumentary | United States |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Meko kazano | Vasil Apostolov | — | People's Republic of Bulgaria |
| Open Future | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | drama film | Norway |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, Christmas film, prison film | United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand |
| Breakout | Tom Gries | action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Star Chamber | Peter Hyams | mystery film, drama film, vigilante film, crime film | United States |
| À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | drama film | France |
| Station for Two | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon | Lennart Hjulström | drama film | Sweden |
| From the Life of a Chief of the Criminal Police | Stepan Puchinyan | detective film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner | action film, spy film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Australia |
| Android | Aaron Lipstadt | action film, science fiction film | United States |
| Eddie and the Cruisers | Martin Davidson | mystery film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Miyuki | Kazuyuki Izutsu | romantic comedy film, drama film | Japan |