Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
The Naked Face | Bryan Forbes | Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, David Hedison, Art Carney | Mystery, Thriller | Based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon |
National Lampoon's Joy of Sex | Martha Coolidge | Cameron Dye, Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson | Sex Comedy | Based on sex manual |
The Natural | Barry Levinson | Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth, Robert Prosky, Barbara Hershey, Darren McGavin | Sports, Drama | Based on a novel by Bernard Malamud |
The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Gerald McRaney | Fantasy | 2 sequels |
Night Patrol | Jackie Kong | Linda Blair, Murray Langston, Pat Paulsen | Comedy | |
Night of the Comet | Thom Eberhardt | Catherine Mary Stewart, Geoffrey Lewis | Sci-Fi | |
A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp | Slasher | first of series |
Ninja III: The Domination | Sam Firstenberg | Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey | Martial Arts, Action, Horror | |
No Small Affair | Jerry Schatzberg | Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt | Comedy | Columbia |
Not for Publication | Paul Bartel | Nancy Allen, David Naughton | Comedy | |
Nothing Lasts Forever | Tom Schiller | Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Bill Murray | Comedy | not released in theaters or on DVD |
Oh, God! You Devil | Paul Bogart | George Burns | Comedy | Third and the final series |
Old Enough | Marisa Silver | Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Danny Aiello | Teen | |
Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Robert De Niro, James Woods, Tuesday Weld, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Treat Williams, William Forsythe, Danny Aiello | Drama | winner of 2 BAFTA awards; Leone's last film |
Over the Brooklyn Bridge | Menahem Golan | Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Margaux Hemingway, Burt Young, Carol Kane, Sid Caesar | Comedy | MGM/UA |
Oxford Blues | Robert Boris | Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands | Comedy | remake of A Yank at Oxford |
Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell | Drama | won Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival |
A Passage to India | David Lean | Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness | Drama | Based on a novel by E. M. Forster; Lean's last film; 2 Oscars |
Perfect Strangers | Larry Cohen | Anne Carlisle, Ann Magnuson | Erotic, Thriller | New Line Cinema |
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak | Just Jaeckin | Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff | Action | |
The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | Michael Paré, Nancy Allen | Sci-Fi | New World |
Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | Sally Field, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan | Drama | Oscars for Field and screenplay |
Police Academy | Hugh Wilson | Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott, Michael Winslow, Andrew Rubin, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, George Gaynes, Bruce Mahler, Marion Ramsey, G.W. Bailey | Comedy | first of series |
The Pope of Greenwich Village | Stuart Rosenberg | Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page, M. Emmet Walsh, Burt Young | Crime | Based on a novel by Vincent Patrick |
The Power | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Warren Lincoln | Supernatural Horror | |
Protocol | Herbert Ross | Goldie Hawn, Andre Gregory, Chris Sarandon | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
Purple Hearts | Sidney J. Furie | Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd | War, Drama | Warner Bros. |
Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | Prince, Morris Day, Apollonia Kotero | Musical, Drama | Academy Award for Musical Score |
Racing with the Moon | Richard Benjamin | Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth McGovern | Drama | Paramount |
Raw Courage | Robert L. Rosen | Ronny Cox, Art Hindle, M. Emmet Walsh | Thriller | |
The Razor's Edge | John Byrum | Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, James Keach | Drama | Columbia; Based on a novel by Somerset Maugham; Remake of 1946 film |
Reckless | James Foley | Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Cliff De Young | Romance, Drama | |
Red Dawn | John Milius | Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean Stanton, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Darren Dalton, William Smith, Frank McRae, Jennifer Grey, Ron O'Neal, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson | Action, Drama | remade in 2012; Also, first film rated PG-13 |
Repo Man | Alex Cox | Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter | Sci-Fi, Comedy | Universal |
Revenge of the Nerds | Jeff Kanew | Anthony Edwards, Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield, Curtis Armstrong | Comedy | 3 sequels |
Rhinestone | Bob Clark | Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Richard Farnsworth | Musical, Comedy | 8 Razzie nominations |
The River | Mark Rydell | Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn | Drama | 4 Oscar nominations |
Roadhouse 66 | John Mark Robinson | Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold | Action | |
Romancing the Stone | Robert Zemeckis | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito | Action, Adventure, Romance, Comedy | followed by The Jewel of the Nile |
The Rosebud Beach Hotel | Harry Hurwitz | Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari, Christopher Lee | Comedy | |
Runaway | Michael Crichton | Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley | Sci-Fi, Action | TriStar |
Savage Streets | Danny Steinmann | Linda Blair, John Vernon | Teen, Vigilante, Exploitation, Action | |
Second Sight: A Love Story | John Korty | Elizabeth Montgomery, Barry Newman | Romance, Drama | Made-for-TV |
Secret Honor | Robert Altman | Philip Baker Hall | Drama | 1-character story (Richard Nixon) |
Shadows Run Black | Howard Heard | Kevin Costner | Crime, Thriller | |
Sheena | John Guillermin | Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott | Adventure | Based on comic-book character |
Silent Madness | Simon Nuchtern | Belinda Montgomery, Viveca Lindfors, Sydney Lassick | Slasher | |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | Charles E. Sellier, Jr. | Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley | Psychological, Slasher | |
Sixteen Candles | John Hughes | Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Haviland Morris, Justin Henry, Blanche Baker | Teen, Comedy | Universal |
Slapstick of Another Kind | Steven Paul | Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn | Comedy | Based on story by Kurt Vonnegut |
A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison | Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington | Drama | Based on a play by Charles Fuller |
Songwriter | Alan Rudolph | Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon | Drama | TriStar |
Special Effects | Larry Cohen | Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian | Horror, Thriller | New Line Cinema |
Splash | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy | Comedy | Touchstone |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei | Sci-Fi | 2nd sequel to Star Trek |
Starman | John Carpenter | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith | Sci-Fi | inspired TV series |
The Stone Boy | Christopher Cain | Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Frederic Forrest | Drama | Based on the short story by Gina Berriault |
Stop Making Sense | Jonathan Demme | Talking Heads | Documentary | |
Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson | Comedy | |
Streets of Fire | Walter Hill | Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe | Action | Universal |
Suburbia | Penelope Spheeris | Chris Pedersen, Jennifer Clay, Flea, Christina Beck | Drama, Thriller | |
Supergirl | Jeannot Szwarc | Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway | Superhero | Based on character from DC Comics |
Surf II | Randall M. Badat | Eddie Deezen, Cleavon Little, Eric Stoltz | Comedy | |
Swing Shift | Jonathan Demme | Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris | Drama | Warner Bros. |
Sword of the Valiant | Stephen Weeks | Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Clair, Sean Connery, John Rhys-Davies, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing | Drama, Fantasy | |