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| 20 | The Buddy System | | Glenn A. Jordan (director); Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton, Wil Wheaton, Edward Winter, Keene Curtis, Milton Selzer, F. William Parker | |
| 27 | Broadway Danny Rose | | Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron, Corbett Monica, Jackie Gayle, Morty Gunty, Will Jordan, Howard Storm, Gloria Parker, Jack Rollins, Milton Berle, Howard Cosell, Joe Franklin, Gerald Schoenfeld, Paul Greco, Frank Renzulli, Craig Vandenburgh, Herb Reynolds, Edwin Bordo, Gina DeAngelis | |
| The Lonely Guy | | | |
| El Norte | PBS / American Playhouse / Channel Four Films / Independent Productions / Island Alive / Cinecom International / | | |
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| 10 | Unfaithfully Yours | | Howard Zieff (director); Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, Robert Klane (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Cassie Yates, Richard Libertini, Albert Brooks, Richard B. Shull, Jan Triska, Leonard Mann, Betty Shabazz, Jane Hallaren, Bernard Behrens, | |
| 17 | Blame It on Rio | | | |
| Crackers | | Louis Malle (director); Jeffrey Fiskin (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley, Trinidad Silva, Christine Baranski, Tasia Valenza, Edouard DeSoto | |
| Footloose | Paramount Pictures / Phoenix Pictures / IndieProd Company Productions | Herbert Ross (director); Dean Pitchford (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Chris Penn, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Laughlin, Elizabeth Gorcey, Frances Lee McCain, Jim Youngs, Douglas Dirkson, Lynne Marta, Arthur Rosenberg, Timothy Scott, Brian Wimmer | |
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| 24 | Preppies | | Chuck Vincent (director/screenplay); Rick Marx (screenplay); Dennis Drake, Steven Holt, Peter Brady Reardon, Nitchie Barrett, Cindy Manion, Katie Stelletello | |
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| Repo Man | Universal Pictures / Edge City | Alex Cox (director/screenplay); Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Vonetta McGee, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Zander Schloss, Dick Rude, Miguel Sandoval, Helen Martin, The Circle Jerks, Richard Foronjy, Tom Finnegan, Del Zamora, Eddie Velez, Jennifer Balgobin | |
| Sahara | | Andrew McLaglen (director); James R. Silke (screenplay); Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey, John Mills, Cliff Potts, Perry Lang, Terrence Hardiman, Steve Forrest, Tuvia Tavi | |
| This Is Spinal Tap | | | |
| 9 | Children of the Corn | New World Pictures / Angeles Entertainment Group / Cinema Group / Hal Roach Studios / Inverness / Planet Productions | Fritz Kiersch (director); George Goldsmith (screenplay); Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R. G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, John Philbin, Jonas Marlowe | |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Orion Pictures / Filmline Productions / The Producers' Circle / Woodfall Film Productions / Yellowbill Productions Ltd. | Tony Richardson (director/screenplay); Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley, Paul McCrane, Wallace Shawn, Lisa Banes, Jennifer Dundas, Seth Green, Matthew Modine, Cali Timmins, Anita Morris, Amanda Plummer, Lorena Gale, Joely Richardson, Robert Thomas | |
| Mike's Murder | | James Bridges (director/screenplay); Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Paul Winfield, Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson, Robert Crosson, Daniel Shor, William Ostrander | |
| Pete's Dragon (re-release) | | Don Chaffey (director); Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay); Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Jeff Conaway, Shelley Winters, Jane Kean, Jim Backus, Sean Marshall, Charlie Callas, Charles Tyner, Gary Morgan, Cal Bartlett, Walter Barnes, Jack Collins, Robert Easton, Roger Price, Robert Foulk, Dennis Stewart, Al Checco, Henry Slate, Ben Wrigley, Joe Ross, Dinah Anne Rogers, | |
| Splash | | Ron Howard (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Jeff Doucette, David Knell, Royce D. Applegate, Dody Goodman, Howard Morris, Richard B. Shull, Shecky Greene, Bobby Di Cicco, Patrick Cronin, Tony Longo, Nora Denney, Joe Grifasi, Charles Macaulay, Lee Delano, Migdia Chinea Varela, Eileen Saki, Jodi Long, Patrick O'Rorke, Bill Smitrovich, Than Wyenn, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, David Kreps, Shayla MacKarvich, Jason Late | |
| 16 | Tank | | Marvin J. Chomsky (director); Dan Gordon (screenplay); James Garner, G. D. Spradlin, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Jenilee Harrison, James Cromwell, Dorian Harewood, Mark Herrier, Sandy Ward, John Hancock, Guy Boyd, Randy Bass | |
| 23 | Police Academy | | | |
| Racing with the Moon | | | |
| Slapstick of Another Kind | International Film Marketing | | |
| 30 | | | Hugh Hudson (director); P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin (screenplay); Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Cheryl Campbell, Paul Geoffrey, Ian Charleson, Nigel Davenport, Nicholas Farrell, Richard Griffiths, Hilton McRae, David Suchet, John Wells, Paul Brooke, Ailsa Berk, Mak Wilson, Emil Abossolo-Mbo, Deep Roy, Tali McGregor, Peter Kyriakou, Danny Potts, Eric Langlois, Peter Elliott, John Alexander, Christopher Beck | |
| Misunderstood | | | |
| Purple Hearts | | Sidney J. Furie (director/screenplay); Rick Natkin (screenplay); Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee, Annie McEnroe, Paul McCrane, Cyril O'Reilly, David Harris, Hillary Bailey, R. Lee Ermey, Drew Snyder, Lane Smith, James Whitmore Jr., Kevin Elders, Sydney Squire, David Bass, Rudy Nash | |
| Romancing the Stone | | Robert Zemeckis (director); Diane Thomas (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Zack Norman, Holland Taylor, Mary Ellen Trainor, Kymberly Herrin, Ted White, Evita Muñoz, Eve Smith, Joe Nesnow, José Chávez, Camillo García, Rodrigo Puebla, Paco Morayta, Bill Burton | |
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| Moscow on the Hudson | | | |
| The Stone Boy | | | |
| Up the Creek | | Robert Butler (director); Jim Kouf (screenplay); Tim Matheson, Dan Monahan, Stephen Furst, Jeff East, Sandy Helberg, Blaine Novak, James B. Sikking, Jennifer Runyon, John Hillerman, Jesse D. Goins, Julia Montgomery, Jeana Tomasino, Robert Costanzo, Frank Welker, Mark Andrews, Romy Windsor, Grant Wilson, Will Bledsoe, Ken Gibbel, Hap Lawrence | |
| Where the Boys Are '84 | | | |
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| Kidco | | Ronald F. Maxwell (director); Bennett Tramer (screenplay); Scott Schwartz, Clifton James, Charles Hallahan, Maggie Blye, Cinnamon Idles, Tristine Skyler, Elizabeth Gorcey, Basil Hoffman, Phil Rubenstein, Vincent Schiavelli, Mahlon Richmond, Allan Rich, Ron Rifkin, Benny Baker, Ken Magee, Marty Van Hoe | |
| Phar Lap | | Simon Wincer (director); David Williamson (screenplay); Tom Burlinson, Towering Inferno, Richard Morgan, Robert Grubb, Martin Vaughan, Celia De Burgh, Ron Leibman, Henry Duvall, Pat Thomson, Georgia Carr, Judy Morris, James Steele, Vincent Ball, Redmond Phillips, Peter Whitford, John Stanton, Maggie Millar, Tim Robertson, Roger Newcombe, Tommy Woodcock, Len Kaserman, Paul Riley | |
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| Sixteen Candles | Universal Pictures / Channel Productions | John Hughes (director/screenplay); Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall, Carlin Glynn, Haviland Morris, Blanche Baker, Gedde Watanabe, Edward Andrews, Billie Bird, Carole Cook, Max Showalter, Liane Curtis, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Brian Doyle-Murray, Jami Gertz, John Kapelos, Zelda Rubinstein, Darren Harris, Deborah Pollack | |
| 6 | V The Final Battle | NBC / Warner Bros. Television / Blatt-Singer Productions | | |
| 11 | Firestarter | | | |
| The Natural | | Barry Levinson (director); Roger Towne, Phil Dusenberry (screenplay); Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Darren McGavin, Michael Madsen, John Finnegan, Alan Fudge, Mike Starr, Anthony J. Ferrara, Sibby Sisti, Ken Grassano, Mickey Treanor, Jon Van Ness, George Wilkosz, Paul Sullivan Jr., Robert Rich III, Rachel Hall | |
| 18 | Finders Keepers | | | |
| Making the Grade | | | |
| 23 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm Ltd. | | |
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| Streets of Fire | Universal Pictures / RKO Pictures / A Hill-Gordon-Silver Production | | |
| 8 | Beat Street | | Stan Lathan (director); Andrew Davis, David Gilbert, Paul Golding, Steven Hager (screenplay); Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, Jon Chardiet, Leon W. Grant, Saundra Santiago, Robert Taylor, Lee Chamberlin, Mary Alice, Shawn Elliott, Jim Borrelli, Dean Elliott, Franc. Reyes, Tonya Pinkins, Duane Jones, Afrika Bambaataa, Soulsonic Force, Jazzy Jay, Doug E. Fresh, Bernard Fowler, New York City Breakers, Rock Steady Crew, Crazy Legs, Prince Ken Swift, Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell, Treacherous Three, Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five, Wanda Dee, Brenda K. Starr, The System, Kuriaki, Devious Doze, Buck Four, Baby Love | |
| Ghostbusters | Columbia Pictures / Delphi Films / Black Rhino Productions | | |
| Gremlins | | Joe Dante (director); Chris Columbus (screenplay); Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Judge Reinhold, Dick Miller, Glynn Turman, Keye Luke, Scott Brady, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Banks, Edward Andrews, Jackie Joseph, Belinda Balaski, Harry Carey Jr., Nick Katt, Tracy Wells, John C. Becher, Joe Brooks, Howie Mandel, Frank Welker, Don Steele, Marvin Miller, Michael Winslow, Bob Bergen, Fred Newman, Peter Cullen, Bob Holt, Steven Spielberg, Jim McKrell, Tom Bergeron, Jerry Goldsmith, William Schallert, Chuck Jones, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Carlson, Kenny Davis, Gwen Willson, Arnie Moore, Mark Dodson, Michael Sheehan, Brad Kesten | |
| Top Secret! | | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (directors/screenplay); Martyn Burke (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Billy J. Mitchell, Jeremy Kemp, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Warren Clarke, Harry Ditson, Jim Carter, Eddie Tagoe, John Sharp, Ian McNeice, Gertan Klauber, Richard Mayes, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Max Faulkner, Tristram Jellinek, John J. Carney, Dimitri Andreas, Doug Robinson | |
| 15 | Under the Volcano | | | |
| 22 | The Karate Kid | | | |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village | | | |
| Rhinestone | | Bob Clark (director); Phil Alden Robinson, Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Russell Buchanan, Ritch Brinkley, Jesse Welles, Speck Rhodes, Steve Peck, Penny Santon, Jerry Potter, Phil Rubenstein, Tony Munafo, Don Hanmer, Guy Fitch, Cindy Perlman | |
| 29 | Bachelor Party | | Neal Israel (director/screenplay); Pat Proft (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William Tepper, Wendie Jo Sperber, Barry Diamond, Tracy Smith, Gary Grossman, Michael Dudikoff, Gerard Prendergast, Deborah Harmon, Kenneth Kimmins, Rosanne Katon, Christopher Morley, Brett Baxter Clark, Monique Gabrielle, Angela Aames, Hugh McPhillips, Billy Beck, Milt Kogan, Pat Proft, Tad Horino, Toni Alessandrini, Bradford Bancroft | |
| Cannonball Run II | | Hal Needham (director/screenplay); Harvey Miller (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Anton, Catherine Bach, Jackie Chan, Richard Kiel, Frank Sinatra, Ricardo Montalbán, Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar, Louis Nye, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Mel Tillis, Tony Danza, Jack Elam, Charles Nelson Reilly, Michael V. Gazzo, Alex Rocco, Henry Silva, Abe Vigoda, Jim Nabors, Molly Picon, Joe Theismann, Shawn Weatherly, Dale Ishimoto, Arte Johnson, Fred Dryer, Chris Lemmon, George Lindsey, Doug McClure, Jilly Rizzo, Dub Taylor, Hal Needham, Albert Ruddy | |
| Conan the Destroyer | | Richard Fleischer (director); Stanley Mann (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Mako, Tracey Walter, Olivia d'Abo, Sarah Douglas, Pat Roach, Jeff Corey, Sven-Ole Thorsen, André the Giant, Ferdy Mayne, Bruce Fleischer, Pablo Talamante | |
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| The Muppets Take Manhattan | | Frank Oz (director/screenplay); Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses (screenplay); Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Bruce Edward Hall, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Brian Muehl, Louis Zorich, Juliana Donald, Lonny Price, Cheryl McFadden, Graham Brown, Frances Bergen, Art Carney, James Coco, Dabney Coleman, Elliott Gould, Gregory Hines, Edward I. Koch, John Landis, Linda Lavin, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, Brooke Shields, David Lazer, Vincent Sardi, Jr. | |
| 20 | Best Defense | Paramount Pictures / Cinema Group Ventures / Eddie Murphy Productions | | |
| Electric Dreams | | | |
| The NeverEnding Story | | Wolfgang Petersen (director/screenplay); Herman Weigel (screenplay); Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, Alan Oppenheimer, Thomas Hill, Deep Roy, Tilo Prückner, Darryl Cooksey, Drum Garrett, Nicholas Gilbert | |
| Revenge of the Nerds | | | |
| 27 | The Jungle Book (re-release) | | | |
| Meatballs Part II | | Ken Wiederhorn (director); Bruce Franklin Singer (screenplay); Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp, John Mengatti, Kim Richards, Archie Hahn, Misty Rowe, John Larroquette, Paul Reubens, Joe Nipote, Jason Hervey, Elayne Boosler, Nancy Glass, Felix Silla, Joaquin Martinez, Donald Gibb, Blackie Dammett, Jason Luque | |
| Purple Rain | Warner Bros. / Purple Films | | |
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| 3 | Grandview, U.S.A. | | Randal Kleiser (director); Ken Hixon (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, John Philbin, Ramon Bieri, Elizabeth Gorcey, M. Emmet Walsh, Kathryn Joosten, Troy Donahue, William Windom, Michael Winslow, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Larry Brandenburg, Steve Dahl, Fern Persons, Camilla Hawke, Melissa Domke, Bruno Alexander, Fred Lerner, Tim Gamble, Milford Watson | |
| Joy of Sex | | | |
| The Philadelphia Experiment | New World Pictures / Cinema Group | Stewart Raffill (director); Wallace C. Bennett (screenplay); Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Louise Latham, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ralph Manza, Kene Holliday, Joe Dorsey, Michael Currie, Gary Brockette, Glenn Morshower, Vaughn Armstrong, Debra Troyer, Miles McNamara, James Edgcomb | |
| 10 | Cloak & Dagger | | Richard Franklin (director); Tom Holland (screenplay); Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, Jeanette Nolan, John McIntire, Eloy Casados, Tim Rossovich, William Forsythe, Robert DoQui, Shelby Leverington | |
| Metropolis (re-release) | | | |
| Red Dawn | | John Milius (director/screenplay); Kevin Reynolds (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Vladek Sheybal, Frank McRae, Roy Jenson, Pepe Serna, Lane Smith, Radames Pera, Lois Kimbrell, Judd Omen | |
| 13 | Nemo | | Arnaud Sélignac(director/screenplay); Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, Telsche Boorman (screenplay); Seth Kibel, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Harvey Keitel, Nipsey Russell, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Katrine Boorman, Dominique Pinon, Charley Boorman | |
| 15 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | | | |
| Dreamscape | 20th Century Fox / Zupnik-Curtis Enterprises | Joseph Ruben (director/screenplay); David Loughery, Chuck Russell (screenplay); Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt, Chris Mulkey, Larry Gelman, Cory "Bumper" Yothers, Redmond Gleeson, Eric Gold, Peter Jason, Jana Taylor | |
| The Woman in Red | | Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Zorek, Robin Ignico, Michael Huddleston, Arthur Bailey, Kyra Stempel, Viola Kates Stimpson | |
| 17 | Sheena | | John Guillermin (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr., Leslie Stevens (screenplay); Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott, Princess Elizabeth, France Zobda, Trevor Thomas, Clifton Jones, John Forgeham, Errol John, Sylvester Williams, Bob Sherman, Nick Brimble, Paul Gee, Dave Cooper, Oliver Litondo, Joseph Olita, Kirsty Lindsay, Kathryn Gant, Michael Shannon, Nancy Paul | |
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| 19 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | | Jack Hofsiss (director); Tennessee Williams (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley, David Dukes, Penny Fuller, Macon McCalman, Thomas Hill, Fran Bennett, Ami Foster, Jake Jundef, Neta Lee-Noy | |
| 24 | Love Streams | | | |
| Old Enough | Orion Classics / Silver Films | Marisa Silver (director/screenplay); Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Danny Aiello, Alyssa Milano, Roxanne Hart, Susan Kingsley, Fran Brill, Gerry Bamman, Anne Pitoniak, Tristine Skyler, Charlie Willenger, Michael Monetti, Manny Jacobs, Gina Battist, Paul Butler | |
| Oxford Blues | | | |
| 29 | Choose Me | Island Alive | | |
| 31 | Bolero | | | |
| C.H.U.D. | | | |
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| 19 | Amadeus | Orion Pictures / The Saul Zaentz Company | Miloš Forman (director); Peter Shaffer (screenplay); F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenny Baker, Barbara Bryne, Roderick Cook, Richard Frank, Patrick Hines, Cynthia Nixon, Brian Pettifer, Vincent Schiavelli, Douglas Seale, Miroslav Sekera, John Strauss, Lisabeth Bartlett, Martin Cavani, Milan Demjanenko, Peter DiGesu, Nicholas Kepros, Philip Lenkowsky, Herman Meckler, Jonathan Moore, Karl-Heinz Teuber | |
| 20 | Carmen | | Francesco Rosi (director/screenplay); Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy, Tonino Guerra (screenplay); Julia Migenes-Johnson, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, François le Roux, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Julien Guiomar, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez, John-Paul Bogart, Susan Daniel, Lillian Watson, Gérard Garino, Accursio Di Leo, Maria Campano | |
| 21 | All of Me | | | |
| Places in the Heart | | | |
| Windy City | | Armyan Bernstein (director/screenplay); John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eric Pierpoint, Lewis J. Stadlen, James Sutorius, Niles McMaster, Lisa Taylor, Nathan Davis, Louie Lanciloti, Wilbert Bradley | |
| Until September | | Richard Marquand (director); Janice Lee Graham (screenplay); Karen Allen, Thierry Lhermitte, Christopher Cazenove, Hutton Cobb, Michael Mellinger, Nitza Shaul, Rachel Robertson, Raphaelle Spencer, Joanna Pavlis, Helen Desbiez, Steve Gadler | |
| 28 | Body Rock | | | |
| Country | Touchstone Films / Far West Productions / Pangaea Corporation | Richard Pearce (director); William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Therese Graham, Levi L. Knebel, Jim Haynie, Sandra Seacat, Alex Harvey, Stephanie Stacie-Poyner | |
| Heartbreakers | Orion Pictures / Jethro Films Production | | |
| Irreconcilable Differences | | Charles Shyer (director/screenplay); Nancy Meyers (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker, Allen Garfield, Sharon Stone, David Paymer, Lorinne Vozoff, David Graf, Ida Random, Jenny Gago, Kelly Lange, Rex Reed, William A. Fraker, Eloise Hardt, Stuart Pankin, Luana Anders, Charlotte Stewart, Ken Lerner, Ellen Geer, Beverly Reed, Hortensia Colorado, Johna Stewart-Bowden, Richard Minchenberg | |
| The River Rat | | Thomas Rickman (director/screenplay); Martha Plimpton, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Tony Frank, Melissa Hart, Peter Renaday, Shawn Smith, Norman Bennett, Nancy Lea Owen, Angie Bolling | |
| The Wild Life | | Art Linson (director); Cameron Crowe (screenplay); Christopher Penn, Lea Thompson, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Jenny Wright, Eric Stoltz, Rick Moranis, Hart Bochner, Randy Quaid, Robert Ridgely, Jack Kehoe, Simone White, Michael Bowen, Ángel Salazar, Dick Rude, Sherilyn Fenn, Leo Penn, Lee Ving, Dean Devlin, Nancy Wilson, Ben Stein, Keone Young, Kevin Peter Hall, Kitten Natividad, Cameron Crowe, Ronnie Wood, Tommy Swerdlow, Tony Epper, Ted White, Gary Riley, Brin Berliner, Susan Blackstone, Cari Anne Warder, Beth McKinley, Reginald Farmer, Hildy Brooks, Robert Chestnut, Ashley St. John, Danny Tucker | |
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| 8 | The Burning Bed | NBC Productions / Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc. | Robert Greenwald (director); Rose Leiman Goldemberg (screenplay); Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford, Christa Denton, James T. Callahan, Gary Grubbs, David Friedman, David Andrews, James Hampton, Virgil Frye, Dixie K. Wade, Heather Rich, Justin Gocke, Elizabeth Lyn Fraser, Jeremy Ross | |
| 10 | Comfort and Joy | | Bill Forsyth (director/screenplay); Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide, Rikki Fulton, Roberto Bernardi, George Rossi, Ron Donachie, Iain McColl, Arnold Brown, Peter Rossi, Billy McElhaney, Gilly Gilchrist, Caroline Guthrie, Ona McCracken, Elizabeth Sinclair, Katy Black, Robin Black, Billy Johnstone | |
| 12 | Garbo Talks | | | |
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| 19 | Crimes of Passion | | | |
| The Little Drummer Girl | | | |
| The Razor's Edge | | | |
| Stop Making Sense | | | |
| Thief of Hearts | | | |
| 26 | American Dreamer | | | |
| Body Double | Columbia Pictures / Delphi II Productions | | |
| Firstborn | | | |
| Give My Regards to Broad Street | | | |
| Paris, Texas | 20th Century Fox / Road Movies / Filmproduktion GmbH / Argos Films S.A. | Wim Wenders (director); L. M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard (screenplay); Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki, John Lurie, Socorro Valdez, Viva, Mydolls, Sam Berry, Claresie Mobley, Edward Fayton, Justin Hogg, Tom Farrell, Jeni Vici, Sally Norvell | |
| Streetwise | Angelika Films | Martin Bell (director); Cheryl McCall (screenplay); Roberta Joseph Hayes, Dewayne Pomeroy, "Little Justin" Reed Early, Lou Ellen "Lulu" Coach, Patti, Rat, Shadow, Erin "Tiny" Blackwell, Patrice Pitts | |
| The Terminator | Orion Pictures / Hemdale / Pacific Western Productions / Cinema '84 | James Cameron (director/screenplay); Gale Anne Hurd (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Earl Boen, Bess Motta, Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brian Thompson, Marianne Muellerleile, Shawn Schepps | |
| Terror in the Aisles | Universal Pictures / Kaleidoscope Films | | |
| The Times of Harvey Milk | TC Films International | Rob Epstein (director/screenplay); Carter Wilson, Judith Coburn (screenplay); Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tom Ammiano, Bill Kraus, Sally M. Gearhart, Dianne Feinstein, Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Dan White, John Briggs, Jimmy Carter, Tory Hartmann, Jim Elliot, Henry Der, Jeannine Yeomans | |
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| 9 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | New Line Cinema / Media Home Entertainment / Smart Egg Pictures | Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Joe Unger, Joseph Whipp, Charles Fleischer, Lin Shaye, Leslie Hoffman, David Andrews, Ash Adams, Don Hannah, Chris Tashima, Robert Shaye, Mimi Craven, Jack Shea, Ed Call, Sandy Lipton, Jeff Levine, Donna Woodrum, Paul Grenier, Shashawnee Hall, Brian Reise, Carol Pritikin, Kathi Gibbs, John Richard Peterson, Antonia Yannouli | |
| No Small Affair | | | |
| Oh, God! You Devil | | | |
| 16 | Just the Way You Are | | | |
| B.C. Rock | | | |
| Missing in Action | | | |
| Night of the Comet | Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Thomas Coleman and Michael Rosenblatt Productions / Film Development Fund | Thom Eberhardt (director/screenplay); Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Fox, John Achorn, Michael Bowen, Devon Ericson, Lissa Layng, Janice Kawaye, Chance Boyer, Ivan E. Roth, Dick Rude, Chris Pedersen, Marc Poppel | |
| Night Patrol | | | |
| 18 | Fatal Vision | | | |
| 21 | A Christmas Story (re-release) | | | |
| Falling in Love | | Ulu Grosbard (director); Michael Cristofer (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, David Clennon, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin, Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Jesse Bradford, Roganda Mart | |
| Supergirl | | | |
| 25 | | | John Korty (director); Bob Carrau (screenplay); Warwick Davis, Eric Walker, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Boyd, Debbie Lee Carrington, Tony Cox, Burl Ives, Darryl Henriques, Aubree Miller, Daniel Frishman, Kevin Thompson, Margarita Fernández, Pam Grizz, Bobby Bell, Sydney Walker | |
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| 7 | 2010 | | | |
| City Heat | | | |
| 14 | The Cotton Club | | | |
| Dune | | | |
| Mass Appeal | | | |
| 1984 | 20th Century Fox / Virgin Films / Umbrella-Rosenblum Films | | |
| A Passage to India | | David Lean (director/screenplay); Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Michael Culver, Clive Swift, Art Malik, Saeed Jaffrey, Ann Firbank, Roshan Seth, Richard Wilson, Dina Pathak, Mohammed Ashiq, Ishaq Bux, Antonia Pemberton, Sandra Hotz, H. S. Krishnamurthy, Ashok Mandanna, Z. H. Khan, Rashid Karapiet | |
| Runaway | | | |
| Starman | | John Carpenter (director); Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Dean Riesner (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards, John Walter Davis, Ted White, Dirk Blocker, M. C. Gainey, George Buck Flower, Ralph Cosham, Lu Leonard, Mickey Jones, David Wells | |
| 15 | The Ratings Game | | | |
| 17 | A Christmas Carol | CBS / 20th Television / Entertainment Partners Ltd. | Clive Donner (director); Roger O. Hirson (screenplay); George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, David Warner, Susannah York, Edward Woodward, Roger Rees, Angela Pleasence, Michael Carter, Anthony Walters, Caroline Langrishe, Lucy Gutteridge, Nigel Davenport, Joanne Whalley, Timothy Bateson, Michael Gough, John Quarmby, Peter Woodthorpe, Liz Smith, John Sharp, Derek Francis, Brian Pettifer, Cathryn Harrison, Mark Strickson, Danny Davies, Catherine Hall | |
| 19 | The River | | | |
| 21 | Birdy | Tri-Star Pictures / A&M Films | Alan Parker (director); Sandy Kroopf, Jack Behr (screenplay); Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby, Marshall Bell, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Crystal Field, Nancy Fish, George Buck, Dolores Sage, Robert L. Ryan, James Santini, Maud Winchester, Sandra Beall, Victoria Nekko, John Brumfeld | |
| | | Sam Firstenberg (director); Charles Parker, Allen DeBevoise, Jan Ventura, Julie Reichert (screenplay); Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo 'Shabba Doo' Quinones, Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers, Ice-T, Susie Bono, Sabrina Garcia, Cooley Jackson/Jaxson, John LaMotta, Steve "Sugarfoot" Notario, Tyler Birch | |
| The Flamingo Kid | | | |
| Johnny Dangerously | | | |
| Micki & Maude | | | |
| Pinocchio (re-release) | | | |
| Protocol | | Herbert Ross (director); Buck Henry (screenplay); Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland, Cliff DeYoung, Keith Szarabajka, Ed Begley Jr., Kenneth Mars, Jean Smart, Joel Brooks, Grainger Hines, Kenneth McMillan, James Staley, Maria O'Brien | |
| 26 | Mrs. Soffel | | | |
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