| Crackers | Louis Malle | heist film |
| Dreams Come True | Max Kalmanowicz | comedy film |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | documentary film |
| Monaco Forever | William A. Levey | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | romance film, drama film, historical film, prison film |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | action film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film |
| The Blood of Others | Claude Chabrol | drama film, war film |
| Windy City | Armyan Bernstein | drama film |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague | drama film, horror film, thriller film |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | drama film |
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank, Ellen Horde | drama film |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | comedy film, comedy drama |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film |
| Krull | Peter Yates | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Psycho II | Richard Franklin | mystery film, horror film, thriller film |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, musical film |
| Romantic Comedy | Arthur Hiller | romantic comedy |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | drama film |
| The Keep | — | suspense film, mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, war film, supernatural horror film |
| The Night the Bridge Fell Down | Georg Fenady | action film, disaster film |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld | fantasy film, romantic comedy |
| A Stranger Is Watching | Sean S. Cunningham | horror film |
| Author! Author! | Arthur Hiller | comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Battletruck | Harley Cokeliss | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film |
| Blood Song | Alan J. Levi | horror film, slasher film |
| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | mystery film, thriller film, science fiction film |
| From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today | Helena Solberg | documentary film |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, detective film, biographical film, crime film |
| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Henry Jaglom, Bob Giraldi | parody film |
| The Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen | drama film, adventure film |
| Trail of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | comedy film, crime film |
| Yes, Giorgio | Franklin J. Schaffner | musical film, romantic comedy |
| Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott | Mary Benjamin | documentary film |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film, prison film |
| History of the World, Part I | Mel Brooks | comedy film, musical film |
| Night School | Ken Hughes | horror film, thriller film, slasher film |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | action film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, crime film |
| Nothing to Hide | Anthony Spinelli | romance film, drama film, comedy film, pornographic film |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | romance film, drama film, satanic film, musical film |
| Play Dead | Peter Wittman | horror film |
| Raggedy Man | Jack Fisk | drama film |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | action film, treasure hunt film |
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger | William A. Fraker | Western film |