| Tin Men | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Under the Chinese Restaurant | Bruno Bozzetto | Italy |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | United Kingdom, United States |
| Backside to the Future | Michael Morrison | United States |
| Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | United States |
| Eat the Peach | Peter Ormrod | Ireland |
| Explosive Brigade Against the Ninjas | Miguel Fernández Alonso | Argentina |
| Gung Ho | Ron Howard | United States |
| Jack Vosmyorkin, American | Evgeny Tatarsky | Soviet Union |
| Les folles années du twist | Mahmoud Zemmouri | France, Algeria |
| My Dearly Beloved Detective | Aleksei Simonov | Soviet Union |
| Naughty Boys | Wellson Chin | Hong Kong |
| Saving Grace | Robert Milton Young | United States, Italy |
| The Decline of the American Empire | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| The Prize | — | Sweden |
| Three Amigos | John Landis | United States |
| Amici miei – Atto III | Nanni Loy | Italy |
| Beer | Patrick Kelly | United States |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | United States |
| Grace Quigley | Anthony Harvey | United States |
| Joan Lui | Adriano Celentano | Italy |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | United States |
| My Sweet Little Village | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | United States |
| Vechernitsy | Yuriy Suyarko | Soviet Union |
| When Nature Calls | Charlie Kaufman | United States |
| Crónica dos Bons Malandros | Fernando Lopes | Portugal |
| Dreams Come True | Max Kalmanowicz | United States |
| Monaco Forever | William A. Levey | United States |
| No More Jokes! | — | Soviet Union |
| Srivariki Premalekha | Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry | India |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | United States |
| About the Strangeness of Love | Teodor Vulfovich | Soviet Union |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | United States |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | United States |
| Jára Cimrman Lying | Ladislav Smoljak | Czechoslovakia |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | Soviet Union |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France |
| Better Late Than Never | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| Doubles | Leo Karpin | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat | Savva Kulish | Soviet Union |
| I Don't Want to Be an Adult | Yuri Chulyukin | Soviet Union |
| Il tifoso | Pier Francesco Pingitore | Italy |
| Once Upon a Dog | Eduard Nazarov | Soviet Union |
| Trail of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | United Kingdom, United States |
| 7 calles | Javier Rebollo, Juan Marino Ortuoste Blanco | Spain |
| Devushka i more | — | Soviet Union |
| History of the World, Part I | Mel Brooks | United States |