| V.I. Warshawski | Jeff Kanew | United States |
| Noh Mask Murders | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| Misery | Rob Reiner | United States |
| The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Renny Harlin | United States |
| D.O.A. | Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel | United States |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| Angel Heart | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| The Morning After | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| Manhunter | — | United States |
| Jagged Edge | Richard Marquand | United States |
| Cat's Eye | Lewis Teague | United States |
| The Star Chamber | Peter Hyams | United States |
| Eddie and the Cruisers | Martin Davidson | United States |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | Irvin Kershner | United States |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | United States |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | United States |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | United States |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | United States |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | United States |
| Odysseus und die Sterne | Ludvík Ráža | Czechoslovakia |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | United States |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | United States |
| Night Moves | Arthur Penn | United States |
| Deep Red | Dario Argento | Italy |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | United States |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | United States |
| The Moon-Spinners | James Neilson | United States |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | United States |
| The Woman in Green | Roy William Neill | United States |
| The Falcon Out West | William Clemens | United States |
| The Uninvited | Lewis Allen | United States |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | United States |
| Mr. Moto in Danger Island | Herbert I. Leeds | United States |
| Murder in Greenwich Village | Albert S. Rogell | United States |
| The Scarab Murder Case | Michael Hankinson | United Kingdom |
| Fever Dream | Claudia Llosa | Spain, Chile, United States, Peru |
| Batman: Hush | Justin Copeland | United States |
| Crooked House | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | United Kingdom |
| Chain Mail | Adolfo Alix, Jr. | Philippines |
| Halik sa Hangin | Emmanuel Palo | Philippines |
| The Secret in Their Eyes | Billy Ray | United States |
| Before I Go to Sleep | Rowan Joffé | United Kingdom, United States |