| Meko kazano | Vasil Apostolov | — | People's Republic of Bulgaria |
| Open Future | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | drama film | Norway |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, Christmas film, prison film | United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand |
| Breakout | Tom Gries | action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Star Chamber | Peter Hyams | mystery film, drama film, vigilante film, crime film | United States |
| À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | drama film | France |
| Station for Two | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon | Lennart Hjulström | drama film | Sweden |
| From the Life of a Chief of the Criminal Police | Stepan Puchinyan | detective film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Never Say Never Again | Irvin Kershner | action film, spy film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Australia |
| Android | Aaron Lipstadt | action film, science fiction film | United States |
| Eddie and the Cruisers | Martin Davidson | mystery film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Miyuki | Kazuyuki Izutsu | romantic comedy film, drama film | Japan |
| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film | Italy |
| Let's Make Laugh | Alfred Cheung | romantic comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | Mats Arehn | comedy film | Sweden |
| Skywhales | Derek W. Hayes | — | United Kingdom |
| Outland | Peter Hyams | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe, Friz Freleng | children's film | United States |
| Risky Business | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film, comedy film, erotic film, comedy drama | United States |
| Shaolin and Wu Tang | Gordon Liu | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Third Prince | Antonín Moskalyk | cinematic fairy tale | Czechoslovakia |
| Empire of Passion | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film, horror film | France, Japan |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | romance film, adventure film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| We Are from Jazz | Karen Shakhnazarov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Friday the 13th Part III | Steve Miner | horror film | United States |
| The Hunger | Tony Scott | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Aa Raathri | Joshiy | — | India |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film, crime film | United States |
| Happy We | Lasse Hallström | drama film | Sweden |
| Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | romantic comedy film, satirical film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United States |
| A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | drama film | Portugal |
| The Devoted Soldier | Wei Lian | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Still of the Night | Robert Benton | neo-noir, thriller film | United States |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg | body horror film, science fiction horror film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, desire horror fiction, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film | Canada, United States |
| Theater of Life | Kinji Fukasaku, Junya Satō, Sadao Nakajima | — | Japan |
| Anarchism in America | Joel Sucher, Steven Fischler | documentary film | United States |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear | — | animated film | Australia |
| Kentucky Woman | Walter Doniger | drama film | United States |
| Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Miklós Jancsó | drama film | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| About the Strangeness of Love | Teodor Vulfovich | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible | Valentin Gorlov, Vladimir Alenikov | fantasy film | Soviet Union |
| Ake Hasselgard Story | Jonas Sima | documentary film | Sweden |
| Behind the Blue Nights | Olgerd Vorontsov | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague | drama film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank, Ellen Horde | drama film | United States |
| Flight During Atlantic Ocean | Raimondas Vabalas | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Forgive Me, Alyosha | Iskra Babich | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Here is your front | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Himmatwala | K. Raghavendra Rao | action comedy film | India |
| Il disertore | Giuliana Berlinguer | drama film, war film | Italy |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film | United States |
| Jára Cimrman Lying | Ladislav Smoljak | comedy film, biographical film | Czechoslovakia |
| Krull | Peter Yates | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Kukaracha | Siko Dolidze, Keti Dolidze | drama film, detective film | Georgian SSR |
| Lessons for tomorrow | — | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Lovis, rybka! | — | puppet film | Soviet Union |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Moon Shine Bowling | André Forcier | drama film | Canada |
| Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| One and Eight | Zhang Junzhao | war film | People's Republic of China |
| Parahyba Mulher Macho | Tizuka Yamasaki | historical fiction, drama film, historical film, biographical film | Brazil |
| Psycho II | Richard Franklin | mystery film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, musical film | Canada, United States |
| Romantic Comedy | Arthur Hiller | romantic comedy | United States |
| Scene | Anatoliy Granik | — | Soviet Union |
| Skazka o zvezdnom malchike | Leonid Nechayev | drama film, cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Skullduggery | Ota Richter | horror film | Canada |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Start Liquidation | Boris Grigoryev | action film, war film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Strada Pia | Georg Brintrup | documentary film | Germany, Italy |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | drama film | United States |
| The Adventurer | Kaljo Kiisk | drama film, road movie | Estonia |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | drama film | Japan |
| The Deal | Fernando Ayala | drama film | Argentina |
| The Doctor's Pupil | Boris Rytsarev | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| The Keep | — | suspense film, mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, war film, supernatural horror film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss | Paul Cowan | docudrama, documentary film | Canada |
| The Mill | Ahmed Rachedi | drama film | Algeria |
| The Night the Bridge Fell Down | Georg Fenady | action film, disaster film | United States |
| The Profession of Arms | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | documentary film | Canada |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | Philippe Mora | superhero film, musical film | Australia |
| The Story Shouldn't Had Happend | Zhang Hui | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Troe na shosse | Anatoly Bobrovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld | fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Under the Bridge | Chen Bai | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Unico nell'isola della magia | — | animated film | Japan |
| Édith et Marcel | Claude Lelouch | comedy drama | France |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film | Gabon, France, Germany |