| The Feldmann Case | Bente Erichsen | Norway |
| The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin | Igor Sheshukov | Soviet Union |
| Manhunter | — | United States |
| En film om kärlek | Mats Arehn | Sweden |
| Plumbum | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
| Legacy of Rage | Ronny Yu | Hong Kong |
| An Umbrella for Lovers | Rodion Nakhapetov | Soviet Union |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | Germany, United States |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| The Karate Kid Part II | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| Nothing in Common | Garry Marshall | United States |
| The Adventures of Milo and Otis | Masanori Hata | Japan |
| Boris Godunov | Fyodor Bondarchuk, Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, West Germany |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Michael Chapman | United States |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | France, Japan |
| Trial on the Road | Aleksei Yuryevich German | Soviet Union |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | Germany, Italy |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Germany, United States |
| Red Kiss | Véra Belmont | France |
| Battle of Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | Germany |
| Heritage | Matjaž Klopčič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| A Cruel Romance | Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union |
| Man with an Accordion | Nikolay Dostal | Soviet Union |
| The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | United States |
| Perfect | James Bridges | United States |
| Uramisten | Péter Gárdos | Hungary |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | United States |
| The Cotton Club | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village | Michael Cimino, Stuart Rosenberg | United States |
| Witness | Peter Weir | United States |
| El balcón abierto | Jaime Camino | Spain |
| Parade of the Planets | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
| Time and the Conways | Vladimir Basov | Soviet Union |
| The Clan – Tale of the Frogs | Mika Kaurismäki | Finland |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | United States, Italy |
| The Limit of Possible | Pyotr Mostovoy | Soviet Union |
| The Natural | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Professor Dowell's Testament | Leonid Menaker | Soviet Union |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Scarecrow | Rolan Bykov | Soviet Union |
| Farewell | Larisa Shepitko, Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| Grandview, U.S.A. | Randal Kleiser | United States |