| Stand by Me | Rob Reiner | United States |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Karate Kid Part II | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Absolute Beginners | Julien Temple | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| Mischief | Mel Damski | United States |
| Gregory's Girl | Bill Forsyth | United Kingdom |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | United States |
| Grandview, U.S.A. | Randal Kleiser | United States |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman | United States |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | United States |
| Paradise | Stuart Gillard | Canada |
| Seven Freckles | Herrmann Zschoche | East Germany |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Canada |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | United States |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| To Find a Man | Buzz Kulik | United States |
| The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States |
| The Reivers | Mark Rydell | United States |
| Me, Natalie | Fred Coe | United States |
| A Patch of Blue | Guy Green | United States |
| Crazy Desire | Luciano Salce | Italy |
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | United States |
| Little Women | Mervyn LeRoy | United States |
| Apollo 10½ | Richard Linklater | United States |
| Red Hook Summer | Spike Lee | United States |
| Bleak Night | Yoon Sung-hyun | South Korea |
| The Black Balloon | Elissa Down | Australia |
| Coyote Summer | Matias Alvarez | United States |
| Blue Belle | Massimo Dallamano | United Kingdom, Italy, Australia |