| Viva Gardes-Marines! | Svetlana Druzhinina | Soviet Union |
| Stanley & Iris | Martin Ritt | United States |
| The Russia House | Fred Schepisi | United States |
| A Better Tomorrow 3 | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Harlem Nights | Eddie Murphy | United States |
| Tequila Sunrise | Robert Towne | United States |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States |
| Top Gun | Tony Scott | United States |
| Wisdom | Emilio Estevez, Robert Wise | United States |
| Subway | Luc Besson | France |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | United States |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | United States |
| Adam and Eve Against the Cannibals | Enzo Doria, Luigi Russo | Italy |
| Love and Pigeons | Vladimir Menshov | Soviet Union |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | United States |
| Offered for Singles | Samson Samsonov | Soviet Union |
| Princess and the Photographer | — | Japan |
| Nothing to Hide | Anthony Spinelli | United States |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | United States |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | United States |
| Cunning Female, Mischievous Woman | Kostas Karagiannis | Greece |
| Sooteh-Delan | Ali Hatami | Iran |
| Theatre | Jānis Streičs | Soviet Union |
| Feri Dast Ghashang | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | Iran |
| On Thursday and Never Again | Anatoly Efros | Soviet Union |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | Turkey, Iran |
| Lake Sonata | Gunārs Cilinskis, Varis Brasla | Soviet Union |
| The Clown | Ghodratallah Ehsani | Iran |
| Nazanin | Alireza Davood Nejad | Iran |
| The Story of Sin | Walerian Borowczyk | Poland |
| The Electrician Morad and Seven Girls | Parviz Kardan | Iran |
| At the Last Moment | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| Bandari | Kamran Qadakchian | Iran |
| Old Walls | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| Resurrection of Love | Houshang Hessami | Iran |
| Tangna | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Chervona Ruta | Roman Oleksiv | Soviet Union |
| Subah-o-Shyam | Tapi Chanakya | India, Iran |
| A Swedish Love Story | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
| About Love | Mikhail Bogin | Soviet Union |
| Claire's Knee | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Güzel Şoför | Mehmet Bozkuş, Mahmoud Koushan | Turkey, Iran |
| Leyli and Majnoon | Siamak Yasemi | Iran |
| Passing Through Moscow | Ilya Gurin | Soviet Union |
| Shirin va Farhad | Esmail Koushan | Turkey, Iran |
| The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Wuthering Heights | Robert Fuest | United Kingdom |