| The Pain of a Baby Tooth | Gusejn Mekhtiyev | Soviet Union |
| The Romance of Book and Sword | Ann Hui | Hong Kong |
| The Stranger | Choymbolyn Jumdaan | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Tower | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| Undercover | John Stockwell | United States |
| Vyyti iz lesa na polyanu | Yermek Shinarbayev | Soviet Union |
| A Girl from Hunan | Xie Fei | People's Republic of China |
| Armon | Melis Abzalov | Soviet Union |
| Blue City | Michelle Manning | United States |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States |
| Byla ne byla | Valery Fedosov | Soviet Union |
| Coordinates of Death | Samvel Gasparov | Soviet Union, Vietnam |
| Death of a Soldier | Philippe Mora | Australia |
| Extremities | Robert Milton Young | United States |
| Farewell Moscow | Mauro Bolognini | Italy |
| I Hate You | Sergei Bodrov | Soviet Union |
| La Storia | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Lady Jane | Trevor Nunn | United Kingdom |
| No Retreat, No Surrender | Corey Yuen | United States |
| Pilgrim's Captain | Andrei Prachenko | Soviet Union |
| Run Chrissie Run! | Chris Langman | Australia |
| Samsaram Adhu Minsaram | Visu | India |
| Sekretny farvater | Vadim Kostromenko | Soviet Union |
| The Decline of the American Empire | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| The Photograph | Nikos Papatakis | France |
| The Smile of the Lamb | Shimon Dotan | Israel |
| The Tree We Hurt | Dímos Avdeliódis | Greece |
| The Wake | Norma Bailey | Canada |
| Top Gun | Tony Scott | United States |
| Who Will Enter the Last Carriage?.. | Boris Konunov | Soviet Union |
| Wisdom | Emilio Estevez, Robert Wise | United States |
| A Simple Death | Alexander Kaidanovsky | Soviet Union |
| A Zed & Two Noughts | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| Adieu Bonaparte | Youssef Chahine | France, Egypt |
| American Flyers | John Badham | United States |
| Atkins | Helge Trimpert | East Germany |
| Dokument 'R' | Valeriy Kharchenko | Soviet Union |
| Déjà Vu | Anthony B. Richmond | United Kingdom |
| Ehun metro | Alfonso Ungría | Spain |
| Extend, Extend, Fascination... | Yaropolk Lapshin | Soviet Union |
| Fever Pitch | Richard Brooks | United States |
| Games for Teenagers | Arvo Iho, Leida Laius | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | Canada |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | United States |
| Sylvester | Tim Hunter | United States |
| The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | United States |
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Taiwan |
| Three for Happiness | Rajko Grlić | Yugoslavia |