| The Ages of Lulu | Bigas Luna | Spain, Italy |
| The Big Man | David Leland | United Kingdom |
| The Dark Sun | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom |
| The Last of the Finest | John Mackenzie | United States |
| The Party | Pierre Falardeau | Canada |
| The Russia House | Fred Schepisi | United States |
| The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| Zhensky den | Boris Yashin | Soviet Union |
| A Better Tomorrow 3 | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | South Africa, United States |
| A Hoof Here, a Hoof There | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
| A Man Who Never Was | Peeter Simm | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Anarchy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| Assuage My Sorrows | — | Soviet Union |
| Chattahoochee | Mick Jackson | United States |
| Children of the Storm | Sulambek Mamilov | Soviet Union |
| Crossfire | Gideon Ganani | Israel |
| Dark Bar | Stelio Fiorenza | Italy |
| Decalogue X | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Germany, Poland |
| Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre | Denis Amar | France |
| Interrogation | Ryszard Bugajski | Poland |
| La nación clandestina | Jorge Sanjinés | Bolivia |
| Life and Nothing But | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Limited Life | — | Soviet Union |
| Lisa | Gary Sherman | United States |
| Massacre Play | Damiano Damiani | Germany, Italy |
| Millennium | Michael Anderson | United States |
| Music Box | Costa-Gavras | United States |
| New York Stories | Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Save and Protect | Alexander Sokurov | Soviet Union, West Germany |
| Splashes of Champagne | Stanislav Govorukhin | Soviet Union |
| Splendor | Ettore Scola | France, Italy |
| Strapless | David Hare | United Kingdom |
| Tale of Two Sisters | Adam Rifkin | United States |
| The Countess | Petar Popzlatev | People's Republic of Bulgaria |
| Time of Miracles | Goran Paskaljević | Yugoslavia |
| True Believer | Joseph Ruben | United States |
| Warm Summer Rain | Joe Gayton | United States |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | France |
| A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings | Fernando Birri | Cuba, Spain, Italy, Venezuela |
| Aborigen | Yelena Nikolayeva | Soviet Union |
| Arshak II | Tigran Levonyan | Soviet Union |
| Begynnelsen på en historie | Margarete Robsahm | Norway |
| Biloxi Blues | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Blakytna troyanda | Oleh Biima | Soviet Union |
| Chun Tao | Ling Zifeng | People's Republic of China |