| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film | Italy |
| Let's Make Laugh | Alfred Cheung | romantic comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | Mats Arehn | comedy film | Sweden |
| Skywhales | Derek W. Hayes | — | United Kingdom |
| Outland | Peter Hyams | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe, Friz Freleng | children's film | United States |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, comedy film, erotic film, comedy drama | United States |
| Shaolin and Wu Tang | Gordon Liu | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Third Prince | Antonín Moskalyk | cinematic fairy tale | Czechoslovakia |
| Empire of Passion | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film, horror film | France, Japan |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | romance film, adventure film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| We Are from Jazz | Karen Shakhnazarov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Friday the 13th Part III | Steve Miner | horror film | United States |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Aa Raathri | Joshiy | — | India |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film, crime film | United States |
| Happy We | Lasse Hallström | drama film | Sweden |
| Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | romantic comedy film, satirical film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United States |
| A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | drama film | Portugal |
| The Devoted Soldier | Wei Lian | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Still of the Night | Robert Benton | neo-noir, thriller film | United States |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg | body horror film, science fiction horror film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, desire horror fiction, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film | Canada, United States |
| Theater of Life | Kinji Fukasaku, Junya Satō, Sadao Nakajima | — | Japan |
| Anarchism in America | Joel Sucher, Steven Fischler | documentary film | United States |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear | — | animated film | Australia |
| Kentucky Woman | Walter Doniger | drama film | United States |
| Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Miklós Jancsó | drama film | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| Highschool Scramble | Yūsuke Watanabe | teen film | Japan |
| Premonition of Love | Tofik Shakhverdiyev | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | crime drama film, drama film, comedy film, black comedy film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | comedy film, action film, thriller film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession | Masaru Konuma | pink film, nunsploitation, erotic film | Japan |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Creepshow | George A. Romero | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, monster film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, ghost film, anthology film, science fiction film, black comedy film | United States |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Coast of Love | Charlotte Dubreuil | comedy film | France |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film | United States |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | spy film, thriller film, war film, crime film | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | Jean Yanne | comedy film | France |
| Vincent | Tim Burton | drama film, fantasy film, horror film | United States |