| El balcón abierto | Jaime Camino | drama film | Spain |
| Dune | David Lynch | action film | United States |
| City Heat | Richard Benjamin | comedy film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | monster film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, comedy horror, ghost film, adventure film, science fiction film, buddy film | United States |
| Parade of the Planets | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film, fantasy film | Soviet Union |
| Time and the Conways | Vladimir Basov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Gregory's Girl | Bill Forsyth | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film | United Kingdom |
| The Clan – Tale of the Frogs | Mika Kaurismäki | drama film, crime film | Finland |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | drama film, adventure film, biographical film | United States, Italy |
| The Limit of Possible | Pyotr Mostovoy | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | coming-of-age film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| The Slim Dusty Movie | Rob Stewart | biographical film, musical film | Australia |
| The Natural | Barry Levinson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Professor Dowell's Testament | Leonid Menaker | drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | romance film, teen film, drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Threads | Mick Jackson | post-apocalyptic film, drama fiction, disaster film | United Kingdom |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | drama film, historical film, adventure film | United States |
| Scarecrow | Rolan Bykov | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| What we remember | Roland Steiner | documentary film | East Germany |
| Farewell | Larisa Shepitko, Elem Klimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film | Germany, United States, Poland, Italy, West Germany |
| Slunce, seno, jahody | Zdeněk Troška | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Brave Blacksmith | Petr Švéda | cinematic fairy tale | Czechoslovakia |
| Robot Taekwon-V 84cnM | Kim Cheong-gi | — | South Korea |
| Grandview, U.S.A. | Randal Kleiser | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Rhinestone | Bob Clark | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Pasajeros de una pesadilla | Fernando Ayala | drama film | Argentina |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | action film, treasure hunt film, adventure film | United States |
| Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Return of Olmes | Irakli Kvirikadze | — | Soviet Union |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Moscow on the Hudson | Paul Mazursky | drama film, flashback film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Revenge of the Ninja | Sam Firstenberg | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, ninja film | United States |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Romance in Philately | Sang Hu | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Witches' Sabbath | János Rózsa | romance film, family film, adventure film | Hungary |
| Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Lata dwudzieste, lata trzydzieste | Janusz Rzeszewski | comedy film | Poland |
| Fire | Dmitri Kesayants | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Sista leken | Jon Lindström | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, anti-war film | Japan |
| The Blonde Around the Corner | Vladimir Bortko | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Amityville II: The Possession | Damiano Damiani | horror film, ghost film | United States, Mexico |
| The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | body horror film, drama film, fantasy film, mysticism, horror film, zombie film, supernatural horror film, splatter film | United States |
| Wartime Romance | Pyotr Todorovsky | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | comedy film, mockumentary | United States |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | exploitation film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, teen film, teen horror film, drama film, fantasy film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film+7 | United States |
| Adam and Eve Against the Cannibals | Enzo Doria, Luigi Russo | romance film, adventure film | Italy |
| And Then Came Bumbo... | Nadezhda Kosheverova | cinematic fairy tale, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Applause, Applause... | Viktor Buturlin | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Birdy | Alan Parker | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Black Castle Olshansky | Michail Ptashuk | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Challenge | A. Kodandarami Reddy | soundtrack | India |
| Cireșarii | Adrian Petringenaru | children's film | Romania |
| Crackers | Louis Malle | heist film | United States |
| Crónica dos Bons Malandros | Fernando Lopes | comedy film | Portugal |
| Dreams Come True | Max Kalmanowicz | comedy film | United States |
| Egorka | Solomon Yanovskiy | family film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Carlo Di Palma, Francesco Laudadio, Franco Giraldi, Gianni Amico, Gianni Toti, Giorgio Ferrara, Alfredo Angeli, Luigi Monardo Faccini, Libero Bizzarri, Nicolò Ferrari, Piero Vivarelli, Roberto Benigni +18 | documentary film | Italy |
| First | Gennady Bazarov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| High Schools | Charles Guggenheim | documentary film | United States |
| Komarov Brothers | Yuri Tupitsky | war film | Soviet Union |
| L'Amour à mort | Alain Resnais | drama film | France |
| Le jour S… | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | drama film | Canada |
| Loose Connections | Richard Eyre | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Love and Pigeons | Vladimir Menshov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Lurich | Valentin Kuik | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Maqsad | Kovelamudi Bapayya | buddy film | India |
| Monaco Forever | William A. Levey | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | romance film, drama film, historical film, prison film | United States |
| Naagu | T. L. V. Prasad | — | India |
| No Family | Vladimir Bortko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| No More Jokes! | — | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| No Rest for Billy Brakko | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | animated short film | France |
| Offered for Singles | Samson Samsonov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Park | Rasim Ojagov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Pervaya konnaya | Vladimir Lubomudrov | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Prikazano Vzyat Zhivym | Viktor Zhivolub | war film | Soviet Union |
| Princess and the Photographer | — | romance film | Japan |
| Qaidi | S. S. Ravichandra | action film | India |
| Splatter University | Richard W. Haines | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Srivariki Premalekha | Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry | romantic comedy film, comedy film | India |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Success | Konstantin Khudyakov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | comedy film, action film | United States |
| The Blood of Others | Claude Chabrol | drama film, war film | France, Canada, United States |
| The Masculine Mystique | Giles Walker, John N. Smith | drama film, docufiction | Canada |
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Milchin | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Target Is Your Brain | Feliks Soboliev | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| There Lived a Doctor | Vyacheslav Sorokin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Two Versions of One Collision | Villen Novak | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Un caso d'incoscienza | Emidio Greco | drama film | Italy |
| Waterwalker | Bill Mason | documentary film | Canada |
| Windy City | Armyan Bernstein | drama film | United States |
| Without the Right to Fail | Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Yamaha Fish Stall | Zhang Liang | drama film | People's Republic of China |