1986

Film Decades: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 3:15
  • 8 Million Ways to Die – directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Andy García
  • 9½ Weeks, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke
  • 52 Pick-Up – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Roy Scheider, John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Vanity, Ann-Margret
  • Aakhree Raasta (The Last Option), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
  • Abel, directed by and starring Alex van Warmerdam – (Netherlands)
  • About Last Night – directed by Edward Zwick, starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins
  • Absolute Beginners, directed by Julien Temple, starring David Bowie and Patsy Kensit – UK
  • The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood – Canada
  • The Adventures of Milo and Otis – Japan
  • The Adventures of the American Rabbit – United States/Japan
  • The AIDS Show
  • Alex Holeh Ahavah (Alex is Lovesick) – (Israel)
  • Aliens – directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, Paul Reiser
  • Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Richard Chamberlain – Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, & Robert Donner
  • Los Amantes del Señor de la Noche (The Lovers of the Lord of the Night) – (Mexico)
  • American Anthem, starring Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones
  • An American Tail – directed by Don Bluth starring the voices of Phillip Glasser, John Finnegan, Amy Green, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Madeline Kahn
  • El Amor brujo (a.k.a. Wedded by Witchcraft), directed by Carlos Saura – (Spain)
  • Amorosa, directed by Mai Zetterling – (Sweden)
  • April Fool’s Day, starring Jay Baker and Deborah Foreman
  • Armed and Dangerous – starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan
  • Armed Response – starring David Carradine & Lee Van Cleef
  • Armour of God – directed by & starring Jackie Chan – Hong Kong
  • As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary
  • The Assault – Netherlands
  • At Close Range – starring Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
  • Attention bandits! (aka Bandits), directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
  • Avenging Force, starring Michael Dudikoff
  • BabaKiueria – (Australia)
  • Back to School – directed by Alan Metter, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon, Adrienne Barbeau, Burt Young, Ned Beatty, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Backlash – (Australia)
  • Band of the Hand, starring Stephen Lang and Lauren Holly
  • The Beekeeper (O Melissokomos) – (Greece)
  • Behind Enemy Lines – starring David Carradine
  • The Best of Times – starring Robin Williams & Kurt Russell
  • • A Better Tomorrow – directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung – Hong Kong
  • Betty Blue (37°2 le matin), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Béatrice Dalle – France
  • Biggles: Adventures in Time
  • The Big Parade (Dà Yuèbīng), directed by Chen Kaige – (China)
  • Big Trouble – directed by John Cassavetes, starring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D’Angelo, Valerie Curtin
  • Big Trouble in Little China** – directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong
  • Black Moon Rising – starring Tommy Lee Jones & Linda Hamilton
  • Blue City, starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy
  • Blue Velvet – directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
  • Boris Godunov, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Boy in Blue – directed by Charles Jarrott, starring Nicolas Cage, Christopher Plummer
  • The Boy Who Could Fly, directed by Nick Castle, starring Lucy Deakins and Jay Underwood
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs, directed by Gene Saks, starring Jonathan Silverman, Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey
  • Bullies – (Canada)
  • By Touch (Przez dotyk) – (Poland)
  • Il camorrista (The Professor), starring Ben Gazzara – (Italy)
  • Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer, Hadley Kay – (Canada)
  • Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman, starring Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton – (U.K.)
  • Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed – (U.K.)
  • Castle in the Sky** – directed by Hayao Miyazaki – Japan
  • Cat City (Macskafogó) – (Hungary)
  • Children of a Lesser God – directed by Randa Haines, starring William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
  • Choke Canyon (a.k.a. On Dangerous Ground)
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear, starring Daryl Hannah
  • Clockwise – directed by Christopher Morahan, starring John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, & Sharon Maiden – UK
  • Club Paradise – directed by Harold Ramis, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy
  • Cobra – directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson
  • The Color of Money – directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Forest Whitaker
  • Comrades, starring Keith Allen – (U.K.)
  • Crawlspace, starring Klaus Kinski
  • Crimes of the Heart – directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Tess Harper
  • Critters, starring Dee Wallace-Stone and M. Emmet Walsh
  • Crocodile Dundee, directed by Peter Faiman, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski – (Australia)
  • Dangerously Close, starring John Stockwell
  • Dead Man’s Folly – starring Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Nicollette Sheridan
  • Dead Man’s Letters (Pisma myortvogo cheloveka) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Deadly Friend – directed by Wes Craven
  • Le Déclin de l’empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand – (Canada)
  • The Delta Force – starring Chuck Norris & Lee Marvin
  • Desert Bloom, starring Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Ellen Barkin
  • Down and Out in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
  • Down by Law – directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
  • Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam – starring Jim Varney
  • Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (Doragon Bōru Shenron no Densetsu) – (Japan)
  • Duet for One, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Julie Andrews
  • Dust in the Wind (Liàn liàn fēng chén) – (Taiwan)
  • Echo Park, starring Tom Hulce and Susan Dey
  • Extremities, starring Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid, James Russo
  • Eye of the Tiger, starring Gary Busey
  • F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – directed by John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Charlie Sheen
  • Fire with Fire, starring Craig Sheffer and Virginia Madsen
  • Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris
  • Flight of the Navigator, directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joey Cramer
  • Flodder, directed by Dick Maas – (Netherlands)
  • The Fly – directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, & John Getz
  • Flying – directed by Paul Lynch, starring Olivia d’Abo, Rita Tushingham & Keanu Reeves
  • Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale – (New Zealand)
  • Forbidden Dreams (Smrt krásných srnců) – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Foreign Body – directed by Ronald Neame, starring Amanda Donohoe and Victor Banerjee – (U.K.)
  • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, directed by Tom McLoughlin, starring Thom Mathews and Jennifer Cooke
  • The Fringe Dwellers, directed by Bruce Beresford – (Australia)
  • Genesis, directed by Mrinal Sen, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M. K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
  • Ginger and Fred – directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina – (Italy)
  • A Girl from Hunan (Xiāngnǔ xiāoxiāo) – (China)
  • GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, featuring the voices of Margot Kidder, Telly Savalas and Roddy McDowall
  • The Golden Child, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis
  • Gonza the Spearman (Yari no gonza) – (Japan)
  • Good to Go, starring Art Garfunkel
  • Gothic – directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands
  • The Great Mouse Detective – directed by John Musker, Ron Clements, David Michener, & Burny Mattinson – starring the voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Eve Brenner, Diana Chesney, Frank Welker, Alan Young
  • A Great Wall – (United States/China)
  • The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer – France
  • Gung Ho! – directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton
  • Half Moon Street – starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine – UK/US
  • Hamburger: The Motion Picture, starring Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, & Randi Brooks
  • Hannah and Her Sisters – directed by & starring Woody Allen, with Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Barbara Hershey
  • Haunted Honeymoon – directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise
  • Heartbreak Ridge – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Mario Van Peebles, Marsha Mason, Boyd Gaines
  • Heartburn – directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing, Jeff Daniels, Miloš Forman, Steven Hill, Catherine O’Hara, Mercedes Ruehl
  • Heat – starring Burt Reynolds
  • Heathcliff: The Movie
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, starring Michael Rooker
  • Hibiscus Town (Fu rong zhen), directed by Xie Jin – (China)
  • Highlander – directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Heart, Clancy Brown, & Sean Connery – UK/US
  • The Hitcher, directed by Robert Harmon, starring Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Hoosiers – directed by David Anspaugh, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
  • The Horse Thief (Dao ma zei) – (China)
  • Hôtel du Paradis, starring Fernando Rey – (France)
  • House, starring William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt
  • House on Fire (Kataku no hito), starring Ken Ogata – (Japan)
  • Howard the Duck, starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins
  • Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
  • Invaders from Mars – directed by Tobe Hooper
  • Iron Eagle – starring Louis Gossett Jr. & Jason Gedrick
  • Jake Speed – starring Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, John Hurt
  • Jean de Florette, directed by Claude Berri, starring Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil – (France)
  • Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, directed by and starring Richard Pryor
  • Jumpin’ Jack Flash – directed by Penny Marshall, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
  • Just Between Friends, starring Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston
  • The Karate Kid Part II, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
  • Karma, starring Dilip Kumar and Nutan – (India)
  • A Killing Affair – directed by David Saperstein, starring Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, and Bill Smitrovich
  • Kin-dza-dza! – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Knights of the City
  • Labyrinth – directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie & Jennifer Connelly – (UK / US)
  • Lady Jane – directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, Patrick Stewart – US
  • Laputa: Castle in the Sky** – directed by Hayao Miyazaki – Japan
  • Legacy of Rage – directed by Ronny Yu, starring Brandon Lee, Michael Wong, Regina Kent, & Bolo Yeung
  • Legal Eagles – directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, & Daryl Hannah
  • Let’s Get Harry -starring Robert Duvall
  • Link – starring Terence Stamp & Elisabeth Shue – (UK)
  • Little Shop of Horrors – directed by Frank Oz, starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, the voice of Levi Stubbs, John Candy, Bill Murray
  • Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar) – (Brazil)
  • Lucas – starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder
  • Luxo Jr.
  • Malcolm – (Australia)
  • The Manhattan Project, starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon
  • Manhunter – directed by Michael Mann, starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan, Joan Allen, & Brian Cox
  • Manon des Sources, directed by Claude Berri, starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart – (France)
  • Martial Arts of Shaolin (Nan bei Shao Lin), starring Jet Li – (Hong Kong)
  • Matador – directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas – Spain
  • Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood), starring Michel Piccoli and Juliette Binoche – (France)
  • Maximum Overdrive, directed by Stephen King, starring Emilio Estevez
  • Meatballs III: Summer Job, directed by George Mendeluk, starring Sally Kellerman, Patrick Dempsey, & Al Waxman
  • The Men’s Club – starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Craig Wasson, David Dukes, Frank Langella, Treat Williams
  • Miracles, starring Tom Conti and Teri Garr – (UK / US)
  • The Mission – directed by Roland Joffé, starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally – UK
  • Modern Girls, starring Virginia Madsen
  • Mona Lisa – directed by Neil Jordan, starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine – UK
  • Motherland Hotel, directed by Ömer Kavur, starring Macit Koper, Şahika Tekand, Serra Yılmaz, Orhan Çağman (Turkey)
  • The Money Pit – directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Tom Hanks & Shelley Long
  • Monster in the Closet, starring Claude Akins, Henry Gibson, Paul Dooley, Stella Stevens
  • The Morning After – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jane Fonda & Jeff Bridges
  • The Moro Affair (Il Caso Moro), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara, starring Gian Maria Volonté – (Italy)
  • The Mosquito Coast – directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
  • Mr. Bharath – (India)
  • Murder in Three Acts – starring Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms
  • Murphy’s Law, starring Charles Bronson
  • My Chauffeur, starring Deborah Foreman
  • My Little Girl, directed by Connie Kaiserman, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and James Earl Jones
  • My Little Pony: The Movie – starring Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Madeline Kahn
  • Naam (Name), starring Nutan and Sanjay Dutt – (India)
  • The Name of the Rose – directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Christian Slater, & Valentina Vargas – West Germany/Italy/France
  • ‘night, Mother – starring Sissy Spacek & Anne Bancroft
  • Night of the Pencils (La noche de los lápices) – (Argentina)
  • No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere
  • Nomads, starring Pierce Brosnan and Lesley-Anne Down
  • Nothing in Common – directed by Garry Marshall, starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Héctor Elizondo, Barry Corbin, Sela Ward
  • Off Beat, starring Judge Reinhold
  • Old Well (Lao jing) – (China)
  • One Crazy Summer, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Joel Murray, Curtis Armstrong, Bobcat Goldthwait
  • One More Saturday Night, starring Al Franken
  • On the Edge – starring Bruce Dern & Pam Grier
  • Otello, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Plácido Domingo – (Italy)
  • Out of Bounds, starring Anthony Michael Hall and Jenny Wright
  • The Park Is Mine – starring Tommy Lee Jones
  • Parting Glances – starring Steve Buscemi
  • The Patriot, starring Gregg Henry and Jeff Conaway
  • Peggy Sue Got Married – directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Catherine Hicks
  • Peking Opera Blues (Dao ma dan), directed by Tsui Hark – (Hong Kong)
  • The Pied Piper (Krysař) – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau – (France / Tunisia)
  • Platoon – directed by Oliver Stone, starring starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, & Johnny Depp
  • Poltergeist II: The Other Side, starring Craig T. Nelson
  • Poor Butterfly (Pobre mariposa) – (Argentina)
  • Power – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Julie Christie, Kate Capshaw, Fritz Weaver, E.G. Marshall, Gene Hackman
  • Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, James Spader
  • Project A-ko – (Japan)
  • A Promise (Ningen no yakusoku) – (Japan)
  • Psycho III, directed by and starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid and Jeff Fahey
  • Quicksilver, starring Kevin Bacon
  • Quiet Cool, starring James Remar
  • Rad – directed by Hal Needham, starring Talia Shire
  • Raw Deal – starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Red Headed Stranger, starring Willie Nelson and Morgan Fairchild
  • Regalo di Natale (Christmas Present) – (Italy)
  • Rita, Sue and Bob Too – (U.K.)
  • River’s Edge – directed by Tim Hunter, starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye Leitch, Daniel Roebuck, & Dennis Hopper
  • Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro – (United States / Japan)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Barbara Sukowa – (West Germany)
  • Round Midnight, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Dexter Gordon – (United States / France)
  • Running Scared – directed by Peter Hyams, starring Gregory Hines & Billy Crystal
  • Ruthless People – directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker, starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill Pullman
  • The Sacrifice (Offret), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (Sweden/U.K./France)
  • Salvador – directed by Oliver Stone, starring James Woods & James Belushi
  • Sarraounia – (Burkina Faso/France/Mauritania)
  • Saving Grace, starring Tom Conti
  • Say Yes, directed by Larry Yust, starring Lissa Layng, Art Hindle, Logan Ramsey, Jonathan Winters
  • Scene of the Crime (Le lieu du crime), directed by André Téchiné, starring Catherine Deneuve – (France)
  • The Sea and Poison (Umi to dokuyaku) – (Japan)
  • Seize the Day, starring Robin Williams
  • Shadows in Paradise – directed by Aki Kaurismäki
  • Shanghai Surprise, directed by Jim Goddard, starring Madonna and Sean Penn – (U.K.)
  • She’s Gotta Have It – directed by Spike Lee
  • Short Circuit – directed by John Badham, starring Ally Sheedy & Steve Guttenberg
  • Sid and Nancy – directed by Alex Cox, starring Gary Oldman & Chloe Webb – UK
  • Solarbabies, starring Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Richard Jordan, Lukas Haas
  • Something Wild – directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
  • Soul Man, starring C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones
  • SpaceCamp, starring Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson and Kelly Preston
  • Stammheim (aka Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht) – (West Germany)
  • Stand by Me – directed by Rob Reiner, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by and starring Leonard Nimoy, with William Shatner, Catherine Hicks
  • Stewardess School, starring Brett Cullen and Don Most
  • Streets of Gold, starring Wesley Snipes and Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Stripper
  • A Successful Man (Un hombre de éxito) – (Cuba)
  • Sweet Liberty – directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Lois Chiles, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish
  • Tai-Pan, starring Bryan Brown and Joan Chen
  • Tenue de soirée (Evening Dress), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou – (France)
  • Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi) – (Taiwan)
  • TerrorVision, starring Gerrit Graham and Chad Allen
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Dennis Hopper
  • That’s Life! – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon & Julie Andrews
  • Three Amigos – directed by John Landis, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, Chevy Chase
  • Tiempo de Silencio (Time of Silence), starring Victoria Abril – (Spain)
  • Time After Time, starring John Gielgud and Googie Withers – (U.K./Australia)
  • Toby McTeague – (Canada)
  • Top Gun – directed by Tony Scott, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt
  • Touch and Go, starring Michael Keaton
  • Tough Guys – starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach
  • The Transformers: The Movie** – starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Orson Welles
  • In a Glass Cage (Tras el Cristal) – (Spain)
  • Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne
  • Troll, starring Michael Moriarty
  • True Stories – directed by and starring David Byrne, with John Goodman
  • Under the Cherry Moon, directed by and starring Prince, with Jerome Benton and Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Vamp, starring Grace Jones
  • Vera, directed by Sérgio Toledo, starring Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Norma Blum, Raul Cortez, and Carlos Kroeber (Brazil)
  • Violets Are Blue – starring Sissy Spacek & Kevin Kline
  • Voyage to Nowhere (El viaje a ninguna parte) – (Spain)
  • Wahnfried (Richard und Cosima) – (West Germany)
  • When the Wind Blows, starring John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft – (U.K.)
  • Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, LL Cool J
  • Wisdom, directed by and starring Emilio Estevez, with Demi Moore
  • De Wisselwachter (The Pointsman) – (Netherlands)
  • Working Girls, directed by Lizzie Borden, starring Louise Smith
  • The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen and Sherilyn Fenn
  • X: The Unheard Music – documentary
  • The Year of Enlightenment (El Año de las Luces) – (Spain)
  • Youngblood – directed by Peter Markle, and starring Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Gibb, Eric Nesterenko, Jim Young, Ed Lauter, Keanu Reeves, & Fionnula Flannigan