| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
| Baby Boom |
Charles Shyer |
Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Sam Wanamaker, James Spader |
Comedy |
United Artists; later became TV series
|
| Back to the Beach |
Lyndall Hobbs |
Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Bob Denver, Connie Stevens, Don Adams, Paul Reubens |
Comedy |
Paramount Pictures; spoof of 1960s beach movies
|
| Bagdad Café |
Percy Adlon |
Marianne Sägebrecht, C. C. H. Pounder |
Drama |
co-produced with Germany
|
| Barfly |
Barbet Schroeder |
Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway |
Drama |
written by Charles Bukowski
|
| Bates Motel |
Richard Rothstein |
Bud Cort, Lori Petty |
Horror |
Made for TV; spin-off of Psycho
|
| Batteries Not Included |
Matthew Robbins |
Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn |
Science fiction |
aka Miracle on 8th Street
|
| The Bedroom Window |
Curtis Hanson |
Elizabeth McGovern, Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert |
Suspense |
based on Anne Holden novel
|
| The Believers |
John Schlesinger |
Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia, Jimmy Smits, Elizabeth Wilson, Harris Yulin |
Horror |
based on Nicholas Conde novel
|
| Benji the Hunted |
Joe Camp |
|
Family drama |
Walt Disney Pictures
|
| Berserker |
Jefferson Richard |
|
Horror |
|
| Best Seller |
John Flynn |
James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant |
Crime drama |
Orion
|
| A Better Tomorrow 2 |
|
Chow-Yun Fat |
Action |
China
|
| Beverly Hills Cop II |
Tony Scott |
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Brigitte Nielsen, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton |
Action, Comedy |
sequel to Beverly Hills Cop
|
| Beyond Therapy |
Robert Altman |
Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest |
Comedy |
New World Pictures
|
| The Big Bang |
Picha |
Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Perrette Pradier |
Animated, Adult |
|
| The Big Easy |
Jim McBride |
Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty |
Crime drama |
Columbia
|
| The Big Town |
Harold Becker, Ben Bolt |
Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt, Suzy Amis |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| Black Widow |
Bob Rafelson |
Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Nicol Williamson, Dennis Hopper |
Crime drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| Blind Date |
Blake Edwards |
Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger, John Larroquette |
Comedy |
Willis's first film
|
| Blood Diner |
Jackie Kong |
Rick Burks |
Horror |
|
| Body Slam |
Hal Needham |
Dirk Benedict, Roddy Piper, Tanya Roberts |
Comedy |
|
| Born in East L.A. |
Cheech Marin |
Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez |
Comedy |
Cheech's first solo film
|
| The Brave Little Toaster |
Jerry Rees |
voices of Jon Lovitz, Tim Stack |
Animated |
|
| Bride of Boogedy |
|
|
|
|
| Broadcast News |
James L. Brooks |
William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Joan Cusack, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Jack Nicholson |
Drama, Comedy |
Seven Oscar nominations
|
| Burglar |
Hugh Wilson |
Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
| Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow |
|
|
Documentary |
|
| Buy & Cell |
Robert Boris |
Robert Carradine, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Ben Vereen, Imogene Coca, Roddy Piper |
Comedy |
|
| Can't Buy Me Love |
Steve Rash |
Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Seth Green |
Comedy |
Touchstone Pictures
|
| Cannibal Hookers |
|
|
Comedy |
|
| Captive Hearts |
Paul Almond |
Pat Morita, Chris Makepeace |
Drama |
aka Fate of a Hunter
|
| Celebration Family |
Robert Day |
Stephanie Zimbalist, James Read, Ed Begley Jr. |
Drama |
made for TV
|
| The Charles Bukowski Tapes |
|
|
|
|
| Cherry 2000 |
Steve De Jarnatt |
Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Tim Thomerson |
Sci-fi |
Orion
|
| China Girl |
Abel Ferrara |
James Russo, David Caruso |
Drama |
|
| The Chipmunk Adventure |
Janice Karman |
|
Animated |
|
| Christmas Comes to Willow Creek |
Richard Lang |
John Schneider, Tom Wopat, Kim Delaney |
Drama |
|
| Cold Steel |
Dorothy Ann Puzo |
Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Adam Ant |
Thriller |
Cinetel Films
|
| Creepozoids |
David DeCoteau |
Linnea Quigley |
Sci-fi |
|
| Creepshow 2 |
Michael Gornick |
George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Lois Chiles |
Horror comedy |
sequel to Creepshow
|
| Critical Condition |
Michael Apted |
Richard Pryor |
Comedy |
|
| Cross My Heart |
Armyan Bernstein |
Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser |
Romantic comedy |
Universal
|
| Cry Freedom |
Richard Attenborough |
Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline |
Drama, Biography |
based on Donald Woods book
|
| Cry Wilderness |
Jay Schlossberg-Cohen |
|
Family adventure |
|
| The Cure for Insomnia |
John Henry Timmons IV |
Lee Groban |
Experimental |
87 hours
|
| Cyclone |
Fred Olen Ray |
Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Martin Landau |
Action |
|
| Dancers |
Herbert Ross |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
Drama |
|
| Daniel and the Towers |
|
Michael McKean, Allan Arbus |
Drama |
|
| Dark Tower |
Freddie Francis |
Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Theodore Bikel |
Horror |
|
| Date with an Angel |
Tom McLoughlin |
Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Béart, David Dukes, Phoebe Cates |
Romantic comedy |
De Laurentiis Entertainment
|
| The Dead |
John Huston |
Anjelica Huston |
Drama |
John Huston's final film
|
| Dead of Winter |
Arthur Penn |
Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubeš |
Suspense |
My Name Is Julia Ross remake
|
| Deadline |
Nathaniel Gutman |
Christopher Walken |
War |
|
| Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam |
Bill Couturié |
Tom Berenger, Sean Penn |
Documentary |
|
| Death Before Dishonor |
Terry Leonard |
Fred Dryer, Brian Keith, Joanna Pacuła |
Action |
New World Pictures
|
| Death Run |
Michael J. Murphy |
|
Sci-fi |
UK film
|
| Death Wish 4: The Crackdown |
J. Lee Thompson |
Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz |
Thriller |
third sequel to Death Wish
|
| Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! |
|
Fred Savage |
Educational |
30 minutes
|
| Dirty Dancing |
Emile Ardolino |
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston |
Romance |
Oscar for Best Original Song
|
| Disorderlies |
Michael Schultz |
The Fat Boys, Ralph Bellamy |
Comedy |
|
| Divine Mercy: No Escape |
Hermann D. Tauchert |
Melanie Metcalf |
Religious, biography |
|
| Dolls |
Stuart Gordon |
|
Horror |
|
| Dorf on Golf |
|
Tim Conway |
Comedy |
|
| Dorf's Golf Bible |
|
Tim Conway |
Comedy |
|
| Down Twisted |
Albert Pyun |
Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket |
Thriller |
|
| Dragnet |
Tom Mankiewicz |
Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Christopher Plummer |
Comedy |
Universal; satire of TV series Dragnet
|
| Eddie Murphy Raw |
|
Eddie Murphy |
Comedy |
Concert film
|
| Empire of the Sun |
Steven Spielberg |
Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson |
War drama |
Bale's first film
|
| End of the Line |
Jay Russell |
Kevin Bacon, Wilford Brimley, Holly Hunter |
Drama |
|
| Enemy Territory |
Peter Manoogian |
Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent |
Action |
|
| Ernest Goes to Camp |
John Cherry III |
Jim Varney |
Comedy |
|
| Escape from Sobibor |
Jack Gold |
Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer |
Drama |
television film
|
| Evil Dead II |
Sam Raimi |
Bruce Campbell |
Horror |
Sequel to Evil Dead
|
| Extreme Prejudice |
Walter Hill |
Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Rip Torn, María Conchita Alonso |
Action |
Carolco Pictures
|
| Eyes on the Prize |
|
|
Documentary |
About the Civil Rights Movement
|
| Fatal Attraction |
Adrian Lyne |
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer |
Thriller |
Paramount; 5 Oscar nominations
|
| Fatal Beauty |
Tom Holland |
Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott |
Comedy |
MGM
|
| Fight for Life |
Elliot Silverstein |
Jerry Lewis, Patty Duke, Morgan Freeman |
Drama |
made for TV
|
| Five Corners |
Tony Bill |
Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro |
Drama |
written by John Patrick Shanley
|
| Flowers in the Attic |
Jeffrey Bloom |
Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson |
Suspense |
based on V. C. Andrews novel
|
| From the Hip |
Bob Clark |
Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt |
Comedy |
|
| Full Metal Jacket |
Stanley Kubrick |
Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard |
War |
Warner Bros.; based on Gustav Hasford novel
|
| G.I. Joe: The Movie |
Don Jurwich |
voices of Don Johnson, Burgess Meredith, Sgt. Slaughter, Chris Latta, Michael Bell, Neil Ross |
Animated |
based on Hasbro toy
|
| The Garbage Pail Kids Movie |
Rod Amateau |
Anthony Newley, Mackenzie Astin, Katie Barberi |
Comedy |
|
| Gardens of Stone |
Francis Ford Coppola |
James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D. B. Sweeney, Mary Stuart Masterson, Dean Stockwell |
War drama |
American Zoetrope
|
| The Gate |
Tibor Tacacs |
Stephen Dorff |
Horror |
|
| The Glass Menagerie |
Paul Newman |
Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen |
Drama |
Tennessee Williams play
|
| Good Morning, Vietnam |
Barry Levinson |
Robin Williams, Robert Wuhl, Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, J. T. Walsh |
War comedy |
Touchstone; Golden Globe Award for Williams
|
| Grateful Dead: So Far |
|
The Grateful Dead |
Documentary |
|
