| Flashdance | Adrian Lyne | Amerika Serikat |
| Boys | Dinara Asanova | Uni Soviet |
| Ediths Tagebuch | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Jerman |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | Britania Raya |
| Piratene | Morten Kolstad | Norwegia |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | Australia |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | Amerika Serikat |
| Tender Mercies | Bruce Beresford | Amerika Serikat |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | Prancis, Italia |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | Hong Kong |
| Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Miklós Jancsó | Yugoslavia, Italia |
| Masquerade | Boštjan Hladnik | Republik Sosialis Slovenia |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | Amerika Serikat |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Jepang |
| Vincent | Tim Burton | Amerika Serikat |
| Irezumi | Yoichi Takabayashi | Jepang |
| Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Prancis, Jerman |
| The Train Has Stopped | Vadim Abdrashitov | Uni Soviet |
| Rocky III | Sylvester Stallone | Amerika Serikat |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch | Amerika Serikat |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Prancis, Jerman |
| Three Brothers | Francesco Rosi | Prancis, Italia |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | Amerika Serikat |
| The Jericho Mile | — | Amerika Serikat |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | Italia |
| Night Crossing | Delbert Mann | Britania Raya, Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| Until Death Do Us Part | Heiner Carow | Jerman Timur |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | Britania Raya, Republik Irlandia, Amerika Serikat |
| Gunpoint | Tapio Suominen | Finlandia |
| The Last Metro | François Truffaut | Prancis |
| Escape to Victory | John Huston | Hungaria, Amerika Serikat |
| Pixote | Héctor Babenco | Brasil |
| Three Times About Love | Viktor Tregubovich | Uni Soviet |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | Amerika Serikat |
| Lenin in Paris | Leonid Eidlin, Sergei Yutkevich | Uni Soviet |
| Seven Freckles | Herrmann Zschoche | Jerman Timur |
| The Hand | Oliver Stone | Amerika Serikat |
| At the Beginning of Glorious Days | Sergei Gerasimov | Uni Soviet |
| Love and Lies | Ilya Frez | Uni Soviet |
| Little Ida | Laila Mikkelsen | Norwegia, Swedia |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | Amerika Serikat |
| Bilibid Boys | Ishmael Bernal | Filipina |
| Ten Tigers from Kwangtung | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong Britania Raya |
| La provinciale | Claude Goretta | Prancis, Swiss |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | Jerman |
| The Youth of Peter the Great | Sergei Gerasimov | Uni Soviet, Jerman Timur |
| Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | Hungaria |
| Signum Laudis | Martin Hollý ml. | Cekoslowakia |