| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, adventure film, biographical film | United States |
| Weird Science | John Hughes | teen film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film, buddy film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | drama film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, military science fiction | Germany, United States |
| The Lonely Guy | Arthur Hiller | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | action film, treasure hunt film, romantic comedy | France, United States |
| Brewster's Millions | Walter Hill | comedy film | United States |
| Red Kiss | Véra Belmont | drama film | France |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, adventure film, epic film, dark fantasy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Battle of Moscow | Yuri Ozerov | drama film, historical film, war film, epic film | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | drama film | Germany |
| Turn of the Screw | Eloy de la Iglesia | horror film, thriller film | Spain |
| Tears Are Not Enough | John Zaritsky | music documentary film | Canada |
| Heritage | Matjaž Klopčič | drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| A Cruel Romance | Eldar Ryazanov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Man with an Accordion | Nikolay Dostal | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Better Off Dead | Savage Steve Holland | teen film, surrealist film, black comedy, romantic comedy | United States, Australia |
| Teen Wolf | Rod Daniel | teen film, fantasy film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Bride | Franc Roddam | romance film, fantasy film, historical film, horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love Hotel | Shinji Sōmai | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Perfect | James Bridges | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Uramisten | Péter Gárdos | drama film | Hungary |
| The Oath of Jantai | Anatoli Kabulov | — | Soviet Union |
| Cat's Eye | Lewis Teague | mystery film, comedy film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | Bill L. Norton | family film, fantasy film, adventure film | United States |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan | Frank Oz | comedy film, children's film, musical film | United States |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Cotton Club | Francis Ford Coppola | drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Tony Richardson | coming-of-age film, lesbian-related film, romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Austria |
| Landscape in White | Gianni Lepre | — | Norway, Italy |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village | Michael Cimino, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, action film, heist film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Mischief | Mel Damski | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, comedy film | United States |
| Witness | Peter Weir | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Body Girls | Bob Chinn | sport film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Fraternity Vacation | James Frawley | teen film, comedy film, sex comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Un parell d'ous | Francesc Bellmunt | musical comedy | Spain |
| Scheherazade's 1002nd Night | Takhir Sabirov | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| The Woman in Red | Gene Wilder | romantic comedy | United States |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | road movie, comedy drama | Germany |
| A Simple Death | Alexander Kaidanovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| A Zed & Two Noughts | Peter Greenaway | drama film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| Adieu Bonaparte | Youssef Chahine | drama film, war film | France, Egypt |
| American Flyers | John Badham | drama film | United States |
| Amici miei – Atto III | Nanni Loy | comedy film | Italy |
| Atkins | Helge Trimpert | drama film, Western film | East Germany |
| Beer | Patrick Kelly | comedy film | United States |
| Best Defense | Willard Huyck | spy film, action comedy film, war film | United States |
| Blue Cities | Alexander Belinsky | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Clue | Jonathan Lynn | mystery film, comedy thriller, parody film, crime film | United States |
| Code Name: Emerald | Jonathan Sanger | action film, spy film, war film | United States |
| Dokument 'R' | Valeriy Kharchenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars | Tsutomu Shibayama | — | Japan |
| Déjà Vu | Anthony B. Richmond | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Ehun metro | Alfonso Ungría | drama film | Spain |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Extend, Extend, Fascination... | Yaropolk Lapshin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Fandango | Kevin Reynolds | comedy drama | United States |
| Fever Pitch | Richard Brooks | drama film | United States |
| Games for Teenagers | Arvo Iho, Leida Laius | drama film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Goodbye, green summer | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | — | Soviet Union |
| Grace Quigley | Anthony Harvey | comedy film | United States |
| Inch by Inch | Matt Sterling | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Jagode u grlu | Srđan Karanović | comedy drama | Yugoslavia |
| Joan Lui | Adriano Celentano | comedy film | Italy |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | drama film, road movie | Canada |
| Match sostoitsya v lyubuyu pogodu | Rolands Kalniņš | — | Soviet Union |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | comedy film | United States |
| My Sweet Little Village | Jiří Menzel | comedy film, comedy drama | Czechoslovakia |
| Nalla Thambi | S. P. Muthuraman | — | India |
| O.C. and Stiggs | Robert Altman | teen film | United States |
| Onnanam Kunnil Oradi Kunnil | Priyadarshan | — | India |
| Pro kota... | Svyatoslav Chekin | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Robbery Under Arms | Ken Hannam, Donald Crombie | bushranging film, Western film | Australia |
| Salon krasoty | Alexandr Pankratov-Chorny | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | comedy film, horror film | United States |
| Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird | Ken Kwapis | children's film, musical film | United States |
| Sindhu Bhairavi | K. Balachander | musical film | India |
| Subway | Luc Besson | romance film, comedy thriller | France |
| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | romance film, drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Sylvester | Tim Hunter | drama film | United States |
| Target | Arthur Penn | mystery film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Great Adventure (1985 film) | Vyacheslav Nikiforov | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Last Sunday | Gennadi Melkonyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film | United States |
| The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | Lourdes Portillo, Susana Blaustein Muñoz | documentary film | Argentina |
| The Mysterious Caravan | Guang Chunlan | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Return of the Living Dead | Dan O'Bannon | comedy horror, zombie film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Slugger's Wife | Hal Ashby | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama film | Taiwan |
| Three for Happiness | Rajko Grlić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Trees Grow on the Stones Too | Knut Andersen, Ola Solum, Stanislav Rostotsky | adventure film | Soviet Union, Norway |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Vechernitsy | Yuriy Suyarko | musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| When Nature Calls | Charlie Kaufman | comedy film | United States |
| Women | Stanley Kwan | drama film | Hong Kong |
| Xiang si nü zi ke dian | Dong Kena | drama film | People's Republic of China |