Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
The Naked Face | Bryan Forbes | Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, David Hedison, Art Carney | Mystery | based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon |
National Lampoon's Joy of Sex | Martha Coolidge | Cameron Dye, Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson | 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 | 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 | Horror | first of series |
Ninja III: The Domination | Sam Firstenberg | Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey | Action | |
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Not for Publication | Paul Bartel | Nancy Allen, David Naughton | Comedy | |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 |
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, 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 |
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, G. W. Bailey, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes, Leslie Easterbrook, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Donovan Scott | 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 drama | based on a novel by Vincent Patrick |
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 | Drama | Academy Award for Musical Score |
Racing with the Moon | Richard Benjamin | Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth McGovern | Drama | Paramount |
The Razor's Edge | John Byrum | Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, James Keach | Drama | based on a novel by Somerset Maugham |
Reckless | James Foley | Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Cliff De Young | Romance | |
Red Dawn | John Milius | Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey, Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson | Action | remade in 2012 |
Repo Man | Alex Cox | Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter | 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 | 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 | Sci-fi | TriStar |
Savage Streets | Danny Steinmann | Linda Blair, John Vernon | Action | |
Secret Honor | Robert Altman | Philip Baker Hall | Drama | 1-character story (Richard Nixon) |
Sheena | John Guillermin | Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott | Adventure | based on comic-book character |
Silent Madness | Simon Nuchtern | Belinda Montgomery, Viveca Lindfors | Horror | |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | Charles E. Sellier, Jr. | Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley | Horror | |
Sixteen Candles | John Hughes | Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall | 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 |
Splash | Ron Howard | Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Eugene Levy | Comedy | Touchstone |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei | Science fiction | 2nd sequel to Star Trek |
Starman | John Carpenter | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith | Science fiction | inspired TV series |
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 | Jennifer Clay, Flea, Christina Beck | Comedy | |
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, Ed Harris | Drama | Warner Bros. |