| Pasajeros de una pesadilla | Fernando Ayala | Argentina |
| Moscow on the Hudson | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | United States |
| Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff | United States |
| Sista leken | Jon Lindström | Finland, Sweden |
| The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | United States |
| Wartime Romance | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | United States |
| Open Future | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | Norway |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand |
| The Star Chamber | Peter Hyams | United States |
| À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | France |
| A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon | Lennart Hjulström | Sweden |
| Eddie and the Cruisers | Martin Davidson | United States |
| Miyuki | Kazuyuki Izutsu | Japan |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | United States |
| Empire of Passion | Nagisa Ōshima | France, Japan |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | Canada, United States |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | United States |
| Happy We | Lasse Hallström | Sweden |
| A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | Portugal |
| The Devoted Soldier | Wei Lian | People's Republic of China |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | France, Italy |
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg | Canada, United States |
| Kentucky Woman | Walter Doniger | United States |
| Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Miklós Jancsó | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | Soviet Union |
| Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Vincent | Tim Burton | United States |
| For Tor's Sake | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| Pink Floyd – The Wall | Alan Parker | United Kingdom |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Paradise | Stuart Gillard | Canada |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany |
| Last Days of the Victim | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
| Prince of the City | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | United States |
| Altered States | Ken Russell | United States |
| Until Death Do Us Part | Heiner Carow | East Germany |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | United States |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | Poland |
| The Little Fox | Attila Dargay | Hungary |