1986 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1986 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1986 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1986^[1]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Top Gun	Paramount	$176,781,728
2	Crocodile Dundee		$174,803,506
3	Platoon	Orion	$138,530,565
4	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia	$115,103,979
5	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount	$109,713,132
6	Back to School	Orion	$91,258,000
7	Aliens	Fox	$86,160,248
8	The Golden Child	Paramount	$79,817,937
9	Ruthless People	Buena Vista	$71,624,879
10	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount	$70,136,169

Events

• February 3 - Pixar Animation Studios is founded by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.
• April - Guy McElwaine resigns as head of Columbia Pictures.
• April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• June - First Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland.
• July 2 - The Great Mouse Detective is released to theaters to positive reviews and is a critical and financial success, just behind An American Tail, saving the Disney Studio from bankruptcy after the failure of The Black Cauldron. It is now regarded as one of the darkest and underrated classics of all time, and has gained a cult following.
• August 6 - Timothy Dalton is officially announced as the fourth actor to portray James Bond.
• September - David Puttnam becomes head of Columbia Pictures.
• September 13 - Film review television program Siskel & Ebert premieres in syndication. Although the two critics have been working as a pair since 1975, this will be their longest running program and will run in various incarnations until 2010.
• November 21 - The first animated film produced by Steven Spielberg, An American Tail, is released, and breaks the record once held by Disney's The Rescuers for the largest financial amount made for an animated film on opening weekend.
• November 29
  • Actor Cary Grant dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Davenport, Iowa.
  • Stuntman Dar Robinson is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.

Awards

Category/Organization	44th Golden Globe Awards January 31, 1987		40th BAFTA Awards February 22, 1987	59th Academy Awards March 30, 1987
	Drama	Comedy or Musical
Best Film	Platoon	Hannah and Her Sisters	A Room with a View	Platoon
Best Director	Oliver Stone Platoon		Woody Allen Hannah and Her Sisters	Oliver Stone Platoon
Best Actor	Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa	Paul Hogan Crocodile Dundee	Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa	Paul Newman The Color of Money
Best Actress	Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God	Sissy Spacek Crimes of the Heart	Maggie Smith A Room with a View	Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God
Best Supporting Actor	Tom Berenger Platoon		Ray McAnally The Mission	Michael Caine Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Supporting Actress	Maggie Smith A Room with a View		Judi Dench A Room with a View	Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Screenplay, Adapted	The Mission Robert Bolt		Out of Africa Kurt Luedtke	A Room with a View Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Best Screenplay, Original			Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen
Best Original Score	Ennio Morricone The Mission			Herbie Hancock Round Midnight
Best Original Song	"Take My Breath Away" Top Gun		N/A	"Take My Breath Away" Top Gun
Best Foreign Language Film	The Assault (De Aanslag)		Ran (Ran)	The Assault (De Aanslag)

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Stammheim, directed by Reinhard Hauff, West Germany

1986 Wide-release films in the U.S.

January–March

Opening		Title Sequence	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	3	Head Office	TriStar Pictures / HBO Pictures / Silver Screen Partners	Ken Finkleman (director/screenplay); Judge Reinhold, Lori-Nan Engler, Eddie Albert, Richard Masur, Rick Moranis, Don Novello, Jane Seymour, Wallace Shawn, Danny DeVito, Merritt Butrick, Ron Frazier, Michael O'Donoghue, Bruce Wagner, Ron James, John Kapelos, Brian Doyle-Murray, George Coe, Don King, Hrant Alianak, Howard Busgang, Tom Butler, Jeremiah S. Chechik, Billy Curtis, William B. Davis, Carolyn Dunn, Denis Forest, Kathleen Laskey, Michael McManus, Maxine Miller, Myron Natwick, Elizabeth Shepherd, Theresa Tova, Eric Keenleyside, Anne Lockhart, Scott Thompson	Black Comedy	Live action
	10	Black Moon Rising	New World Pictures	Harley Cokeliss (director); John Carpenter, William Gray, Desmond Nakano (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Bubba Smith, Dan Shor, Keenan Wynn, Lee Ving, William Sanderson, Nick Cassavetes, Don Keith Opper	Action	Live action
	17	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Warner Bros. Pictures / Producers Sales Organization	Michael Chapman (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar, Thomas G. Waites, Curtis Armstrong, John Doolittle, Martin Doyle, Tony Montanaro, Mike Muscat, Karen Elizabeth Austin, Janne Mortil, Lycia Naff, Penny Smith, Rory Crowley, Joey Cramer, Nicole Eggert, Paul Carafotes, Bart the Bear, Emma Floria, Mary Reid	Fantasy	Live action
		Heathcliff: The Movie	Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Clubhouse Pictures / DIC Entertainment / LBS Communications	Bruno Bianchi (director); Alan Swayze (screenplay); Mel Blanc, Donna Christie, Jeannie Elias, Peter Cullen, Stan Jones, Marilyn Lightstone, Danny Mann, Derek McGrath, Marilyn Schreffler, Danny Wells, Ted Zeigler	Children	Animation
		Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (re-issue)	Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Clubhouse Pictures / Hanna-Barbera	William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (directors/screenplay); Warren Foster (screenplay); Daws Butler, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, J. Pat O'Malley, Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Thurl Ravenscroft, James Darren, Bill Lee, Ernest Newton, Jackie Ward, Jonah and the Wailers	Comedy, Musical	Animation
		Iron Eagle	TriStar Pictures	Sidney J. Furie (director/screenplay); Kevin Elders (screenplay); Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Larry B. Scott, Caroline Lagerfelt, Tim Thomerson, Shawnee Smith, Melora Hardin, Lance LeGault, Robert Jayne, Jerry Levine, Robbie Rist, Michael Bowen, David Greenlee, Tom Fridley, Rob Garrison	Action	Live action
		Troll	Empire Pictures	John Carl Buechler (director); Ed Naha (screenplay); Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Jenny Beck, Sonny Bono, Phil Fondacaro, Brad Hall, Anne Lockhart, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gary Sandy, June Lockhart, Giorgio Armani	Fantasy, Comedy	Live action
	24	My Chauffeur	Crown International Pictures	David Beaird (director/screenplay); Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman, E.G. Marshall, Mark Holton, Penn Jillette, Teller, Julius Harris, Laurie Main, Vance Colvig, Diana Bellamy, Leland Crooke, Robin Antin, Stan Foster, John O'Leary, Stanley Brock, Jack Stryker, Ben Slack, Elaine Wilkes, Cindy Beal, Sue Jackson, Darian Mathias, Carlton Miller	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	31	The Best of Times	Universal Pictures / Kings Road Entertainment	Roger Spottiswoode (director/screenplay); Ron Shelton (screenplay); Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, Margaret Whitton, M. Emmet Walsh, Donovan Scott, R. G. Armstrong, Dub Taylor, Carl Ballantine, Kathleen Freeman, Tony Plana, Kirk Cameron, Robyn Lively, Jeff Doucette, Anne Haney, Linda Hart, Tracey Gold	Comedy	Live action
		Down and Out in Beverly Hills	Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners	Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Elizabeth Peña, Little Richard, Evan Richards, Tracy Nelson, Felton Perry	Comedy	Live action
		Power	20th Century Fox / Lorimar Productions	Sidney Lumet (director); David Himmelstein (screenplay); Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Gene Hackman, Kate Capshaw, Denzel Washington, E.G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight, Fritz Weaver, Michael Learned, J. T. Walsh, Matt Salinger	Drama	Live action
		Youngblood	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists	Peter Markle (director/screenplay); John Whitman (screenplay); Rob Lowe, Cynthia Gibb, Patrick Swayze, Ed Lauter, Eric Nesterenko, Jim Youngs, Keanu Reeves, George Finn, Fionnula Flanagan, Steve Thomas, Peter Zezel, Don Biggs, Peter Faussett, James Richmond	Drama, Sports	Live action
F E B R U A R Y	2	Peter the Great	NBC Productions / P.T.G. Productions / Focus Features	Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller (directors); Edward Anhalt (screenplay); Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard, Laurence Olivier, Helmut Griem, Jan Niklas, Elke Sommer, Renée Soutendijk, Ursula Andress, Mel Ferrer, Olegar Fedoro, Natalya Andrejchenko, Hanna Schygulla, Christoph Eichhorn, Lilli Palmer, Jan Malmsjö, Boris Plotnikov, Jeremy Kemp, Geoffrey Whitehead, Graham McGrath, Ann Zacharias, Dennis DeMame	Biography, Historical, Drama	Live action
		Sins	CBS / The Greif-Dore Company / Collins-Holm Productions / New World Pictures	Douglas Hickox (director); Laurence Heath (screenplay); Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, Steven Berkoff, Joseph Bologna, Judi Bowker, Elizabeth Bourgine, Capucine, Neil Dickson, Arielle Dombasle, James Farentino, Paul Freeman, Allen Garfield, Giancarlo Giannini, Lauren Hutton, Gene Kelly, Catherine Mary Stewart, William Allen Young, Féodor Atkine, Faith Brook, John McEnery, Régine, Alexandra Stewart, Peter Vaughan, Brigitte Kahn, Jean Claudio, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Robert Favart, Gérard Buhr, Ginette Garcin, Olga Georges-Picot, Charles Millot, Victor Spinetti	Drama, Romance	Live action
	7	F/X	Orion Pictures	Robert Mandel (director); Gregory Fleeman, Robert T. Megginson (screenplay); Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff DeYoung, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach, Joe Grifasi, Trey Wilson, Tom Noonan, Josie de Guzman, M'el Dowd, Roscoe Orman, Martha Gehman, Angela Bassett	Action, Thriller	Live action
		Hannah and Her Sisters	Orion Pictures	Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Daniel Stern, Max von Sydow, Dianne Wiest	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	14	The Adventures of the American Rabbit	Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Clubhouse Pictures / Toei Animation	Fred Wolf, Nobutaka Nishizawa (directors); Norman Lenzer (screenplay); Barry Gordon, Laurie O'Brien, Bob Arbogast, Kenneth Mars, Pat Fraley, Russi Taylor, Bob Holt, Lorenzo Music, Hal Smith, Fred Wolf, Norm Lenzer, John Mayer, Lew Horn, Maitzi Morgan	Children, Superhero	Animation
		The Delta Force	Cannon Films / Golan-Globus	Menahem Golan (director/screenplay); James Bruner (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Kim Delaney, Robert Forster, Lainie Kazan, George Kennedy, Hanna Schygulla, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, Steve James, Shaike Ophir, Liam Neeson, Mykelti Williamson, Uri Gavriel, Chelli Goldenberg, Charles Floye, Howard Jackson, William Wallace, Jerry Weinstock, David Menahem, Avi Loziah, Adiv Gahshan, Jerry Lazarus, Natalie Roth	Action, Thriller	Live action
		Knights of the City	New World Pictures	Dominic Orlando (director); Leon Isaac Kennedy (screenplay); Leon Isaac Kennedy, Nicholas Campbell, John Mengatti, Janine Turner, Stoney Jackson, Floyd Levine, Michael Ansara	Action, Adventure	Live action
		Quicksilver	Columbia Pictures	Thomas Michael Donnelly (director/screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Andrew Smith, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Larry Fishburne, Louie Anderson, Charles McCaughan, David Harris, Whitney Kershaw, Joshua Shelley, Georgann Johnson	Drama	Live action
		TerrorVision	Empire Pictures	Ted Nicolaou (director/screenplay); Charles Band (screenplay); Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov, Chad Allen, Jonathan Gries, Jennifer Richards, Alejandro Rey, Bert Remsen, Frank Welker, Randi Brooks, Ian Patrick Williams, Sonny Carl Davis, William Paulson, John Leamer	Horror, Comedy	Live action
		Turtle Diary	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	John Irvin (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon, Jeroen Krabbé, Rosemary Leach, Eleanor Bron, Harriet Walter, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Aldridge, Peter Capaldi, Harold Pinter, Bryan Pringle	Comedy, Drama, Romance	Live action
		Wildcats	Warner Bros. Pictures	Michael Ritchie (director); Ezra Sacks (screenplay); Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively, Brandy Gold, Jan Hooks, Bruce McGill, Nipsey Russell, Mykelti Williamson, Tab Thacker, Wesley Snipes, Nick Corri, Woody Harrelson, M. Emmet Walsh, LL Cool J, George Wyner, Ann Doran, Gloria Stuart, Willie J. Walton, Rodney Hill	Comedy, Sports	Live action
	19	Parting Glances	Cinecom	Bill Sherwood (director/screenplay); Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi, Adam Nathan, Kathy Kinney, Patrick Tull, Yolande Bavan, Bob Koherr, Andre Morgan, Richard Wall, Jim Selfe, Kristin Moneagle, John Siemens, Theodore Ganger, Nada	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	21	9½ Weeks	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Producers Sales Organization	Adrian Lyne (director); Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King, Patricia Louisanna Knop (screenplay); Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton, David Margulies, Christine Baranski, Karen Young, Dwight Weist, Roderick Cook, William DeAcutis, Victor Truro	Erotic, Romance, Drama	Live action
		The Hitcher	TriStar Pictures / HBO Films / Silver Screen Partners	Robert Harmon (director); Eric Red (screenplay); Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John M. Jackson, Billy "Green" Bush, Jack Thibeau, Armin Shimerman, Gene Davis, Jon Van Ness, Henry Darrow, Tony Epper	Horror	Live action
	28	House	New World Pictures	Steve Miner (director); Ethan Wiley (screenplay); William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin, Michael Ensign, Susan French, Felix Silla, Jerry Maren, Dino Andrade, Mindy Sterling, Alan Autry, Steven Williams, Erik Silver, Mark Silver, Peter Pitofsky, Elizabeth Barrington	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Pretty in Pink	Paramount Pictures	Howard Deutch (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, Kate Vernon, Kristy Swanson, Andrew Dice Clay, Alexa Kenin, Dweezil Zappa, Gina Gershon, Margaret Colin, Maggie Roswell	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Salvador	Hemdale Film Corporation	Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Richard Boyle (screenplay); James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Cynthia Gibb, Tony Plana, José Carlos Ruiz	War, Drama	Live action
M A R C H	7	Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation	Columbia Pictures / Nelvana / LBS Communications / American Greetings	Dale Schott (director); Peter Sauder (screenplay); Maxine Miller, Pam Hyatt, Cree Summer, Hadley Kay, Alyson Court, Billie Mae Richards, Dan Hennessey, Bob Dermer, Chris Wiggins, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Michael Fantini, Eva Almos, Patrice Black, Nonnie Griffin, Jim Henshaw, Melleny Brown, Janet-Laine Green, Marla Lukofsky, Gloria Figura	Children	Animation
		Highlander	20th Century Fox / Cannon Films	Russell Mulcahy (director); Gregory Widen, Larry Ferguson, Peter Bellwood (screenplay); Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery, Beatie Edney, Alan North, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, Christopher Malcolm, Peter Diamond, Celia Imrie, Billy Hartman, James Cosmo, Corinne Russell, Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Sam Fatu, Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts	Action, Adventure, Fantasy	Live action
		Nomads	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	John McTiernan (director/screenplay); Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Anna-Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant, Mary Woronov, Nina Foch, Frances Bay, Frank Doubleday, Josie Cotton, Jeannie Elias, Hector Mercado	Horror, Thriller	Live action
		Sleeping Beauty (re-issue)	Walt Disney Pictures	Clyde Geronimi (director); Erdman Penner (screenplay); Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson, Bobby Amsberry, Candy Candido, Pinto Colvig, Hans Conried, Dallas McKennon, Marvin Miller, Helene Stanley, Ed Kemmer, Frances Bavier, Madge Blake, Spring Byington, Don Barclay, Jane Fowler	Fantasy, Family	Animation
	9	Dress Gray	NBC Productions / Warner Bros. Television	Glenn Jordan (director); Gore Vidal (screenplay); Eddie Albert, Alec Baldwin, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick Cassidy, Hal Holbrook, Alexis Smith, Lane Smith, James B. Sikking, Albert Salmi, Ron Rifkin, Timothy Van Patten, Cameron Dye, Peter Nelson, Louise Latham, Jason Beghe, Arthur French, Richard Doyle, Alma Martinez, Cecilia Peck, Tom Everett, Susan Hess, Gary Kasper, Joseph Kell	Crime, Drama, Mystery	Live action
	14	Crossroads	Columbia Pictures	Walter Hill (director); John Fusco (screenplay); Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Steve Vai, Dennis Lipscomb, Harry Carey Jr., John Hancock, Allan Arbus, Gretchen Palmer, Tim Russ, Robert Judd, Akosua Busia, Allan Graf, Al Fann, Wally Taylor, Tex Donaldson, Guy Killum, Edward Walsh	Musical, Drama	Live action
		Gung Ho	Paramount Pictures	Ron Howard (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, John Turturro, Mimi Rogers, So Yamamura, Sab Shimono, Rick Overton, Clint Howard, Jihmi Kennedy, Michelle Johnson, Rodney Kageyama, Rance Howard, Patti Yasutake, Jerry Tondo, Robert Hammond	Comedy	Live action
	16	Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes	CBS Entertainment Productions	Jerry London (director); Carmen Culver (screenplay); Madolyn Smith, Tom Berenger, David Keith, Jack Weston, Richard Kiley, Liam Neeson, Barry Jenner, Lane Smith, CCH Pounder, Maryam d'Abo, Julian Holloway, Peter Banks, Harry Towb, Joe Cortese, George DiCenzo, Jeffrey Jones, John Laughlin, Susan Tyrrell, Harold Sylvester, Alice Hirson, Anne Schedeen, Lois Foraker, Silvana Gallardo, Diane Keen, Philip Madoc, Sandy Martin, Nicholas Amer, Cyril Appleton, George Baker, Peter Birrel, Ivan Bonar, Alexander Davion, Edward de Souza, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jack Galloway, Constantine Gregory, Sneh Gupta, Gennie James, Kenneth Kimmins, André Maranne, Francis X. McCarthy, Valentine Pelka, Duncan Preston, Peter Settelen, Jeffry Wickham, Charles Rocket, Jerry Leggio	Crime, Drama, Mystery	Live Action
	21	GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords	Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Clubhouse Pictures / Hanna-Barbera / Tonka Corporation	Ray Patterson (director); Jeff Segal (screenplay); Margot Kidder, Roddy McDowall, Telly Savalas, Michael Nouri, Lou Richards, Frank Welker, Arthur Burghardt, Bernard Erhard, Peter Cullen, Darryl Hickman, Dick Gautier, Michael Bell, Foster Brooks, Ken Hudson Campbell, Philip L. Clarke, Ike Eisenmann, Marilyn Lightstone, Morgan Paull, Leslie Speights, B.J. Ward, Kelly Ward, Kirby Ward	Sci-Fi	Animation
		Just Between Friends	Orion Pictures / MTM Enterprises	Allan Burns (director/screenplay); Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Sam Waterston, Ted Danson, Mark Blum, Salome Jens, Jane Greer	Drama	Live action
		Police Academy 3: Back in Training	Warner Bros. Pictures	Jerry Paris (director); Gene Quintano (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Art Metrano, Tim Kazurinsky, Bobcat Goldthwait, George Gaynes, Bruce Mahler, Lance Kinsey, Scott Thomson, Brant von Hoffman, Debralee Scott, Brian Tochi, Shawn Weatherly, David James Elliott, George R. Robertson, Ed Nelson, Georgina Spelvin, Arthur Batanides, Chas Lawther, Doug Lennox, TJ Scott, Jerry Paris, Andrew Paris, David Huband, Marcia Watkins, R. Christopher Thomas,	Comedy	Live action
		Rad	TriStar Pictures	Hal Needham (director); Geoffrey Edwards, Sam Bernard (screenplay); Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, Ray Walston, Jack Weston, Bart Conner, H.B. Haggerty, Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes, Rick McNair, Alfie Wise, Marta Kober, Jamie Clarke, Laura Jacoby, Kellie McQuiggin, Beverly Hendry, Shawna Burnett, Graeme Davies, Logan T. Wotton, Jeff Kress, Gordon Signer, Nancy MacDonald, Christian Roerig	Sports	Live action
	26	The Money Pit	Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Richard Benjamin (director); David Giler (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, Frankie Faison, Josh Mostel, Yakov Smirnoff, Carmine Caridi, Brian Backer, Mia Dillon, John van Dreelen, Douglass Watson, Tetchie Agbayani, Michael Jeter	Comedy	Live action
	28	Lucas	20th Century Fox	David Seltzer (director/screenplay); Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen, Kerri Green, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Piven, Tom Hodges, Guy Boyd, Garrett M. Brown	Tragicomedy	Live action

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	11	Band of the Hand	TriStar Pictures	Paul Michael Glaser (director); Leo Garen, Jack Baran (screenplay); Stephen Lang, James Remar, Leon Robinson, Larry Fishburne, Michael Carmine, John Cameron Mitchell, Danny Quinn, Lauren Holly, Al Shannon	Action, Crime	Live action
		Critters	New Line Cinema	Stephen Herek (director/screenplay); Domonic Muir (screenplay); Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy "Green" Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine van der Velde, Don Keith Opper, Lin Shaye, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, Terrence Mann, Jeremy Lawrence	Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Off Beat	Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners	Michael Dinner (director); Mark Medoff (screenplay); Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, John Turturro, Cleavant Derricks, Jacques d'Amboise, Harvey Keitel, Joe Mantegna, Amy Wright, Anthony Zerbe, Julie Bovasso, Penn Jillette, Mel Winkler, Irving Metzman, Mike Starr, Shawn Elliott, Stanley Simmonds, Nancy Giles, Paul Butler, John Kapelos, Bill Sadler, Christopher Noth, Austin Pendleton	Comedy	Live action
		A Room with a View	Curzon Film Distributors / Merchant Ivory Productions / Goldcrest Films / Film Four International	James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Simon Callow, Rosemary Leach, Rupert Graves, Patrick Godfrey, Judi Dench, Fabia Drake, Joan Henley, Amanda Walker, Maria Britneva, Mia Fothergill, Peter Cellier	Romance	Live action
	13	Dream West	CBS	Dick Lowry (director); Evan Hunter (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, F. Murray Abraham, René Enriquez, Ben Johnson, Jerry Orbach, G.D. Spradlin, Rip Torn, Fritz Weaver, Anthony Zerbe, Claude Akins, John Anderson, Lee Bergere, Jeff East, Michael Ensign, Mel Ferrer, Burton Gilliam, John Harkins, Gayle Hunnicutt, Matt McCoy, Cameron Mitchell, Noble Willingham, Billy Campbell, James Cromwell, Lee de Broux, Jonathan Frakes, Stefan Gierasch, Richard Hamilton, Will Hare, Kip Niven, John Quade, Hansford Rowe, Timothy Scott, Vernon Washington, Anna Bjorn, Terrence Evans, Joaquín Martínez, Buck Taylor, Erich Anderson, Carole Davis, Stephen Lee, Glenn Morshower, John Francis, Dave Lowry, Cecile Callan, Nikki Creswell, William Glover, Barton Heyman, Charles Hyman, George McDaniel, Randal Patrick, Helen Floyd, Joe Dorsey, Dennis King, Robert Lussier, Bruce Purcell	Biography, Drama, Western	Live action
		Return to Mayberry	NBC / CBS Television Distribution / Strathmore Productions / Viacom Productions	Bob Sweeney (director); Harvey Bullock, Everett Greenbaum (screenplay); Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Howard Morris, Jim Nabors, George Lindsey, Aneta Corsaut, Betty Lynn, Jack Dodson, Maggie Peterson, Denver Pyle, Hal Smith, Rodney Dillard, Doug Dillard, Mitch Jayne, Dean Webb, Richard Lineback, Paul Willson, Rance Howard, Robert Broyles, Karen Knotts, Janet Waldo, Karlene Crockett, Allen Williams	Romance, Comedy	Live action
	18	Absolute Beginners	Palace Pictures / Goldcrest Films / Virgin Films	Julien Temple (director); Richard Burridge, Christopher Wicking, Don Macpherson (screenplay); Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies, Anita Morris, Steven Berkoff, Sade, Edward Tudor-Pole, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Tony Hippolyte, Bruce Payne, Paul Rhys, Lionel Blair, Eve Ferret, Mandy Rice-Davies, Julian Firth, Alan Freeman, Chris Pitt, Gary Beadle, Robbie Coltrane, Carmen Ejogo, Ronald Fraser, Joe McKenna, Irene Handl, Peter-Hugo Daly, Sylvia Sims, Slim Gaillard, Jess Conrad, Smiley Culture, Amanda Jane Powell, Johnny Shannon, Colin Jeavons, Sandie Shaw, Bruno Tonioli, Eric Sykes	Musical	Live action
		At Close Range	Orion Pictures	James Foley (director); Nicholas Kazan (screenplay); Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Crispin Glover, Tracey Walter, Christopher Penn, Millie Perkins, Eileen Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland, R.D. Call, David Strathairn, J.C. Quinn, Candy Clark, Jake Dengel, Stephen Geoffreys, Alan Autry, Noelle Parker	Crime, Drama	Live action
		Desert Bloom	Columbia Pictures / Carson Productions	Eugene Corr (director/screenplay); Linda Remy (screenplay); Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Ellen Barkin, Allen Garfield, Annabeth Gish, Jay Underwood, Ann Risley, Desiree Joseph, Dusty Balcerzak, Tressi Loria, Laura Rasmussen, William Lang, Jim McCarthy	Drama	Live action
		Murphy's Law	Cannon Films	J. Lee Thompson (director); Gail Morgan Hickman (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Carrie Snodgress, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Romanus, Kathleen Wilhoite, Angel Tompkins, Bill Henderson, James Luisi, Janet MacLachlan, Lawrence Tierney, Clifford A. Pellow, Don Brodie	Thriller	Live action
		Wise Guys	MGM Entertainment Co.	Brian De Palma (director); George Gallo, Norman Steinberg (screenplay); Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey, Dan Hedaya, Captain Lou Albano, Julie Bovasso, Patti LuPone, Antonia Rey, Matthew Kaye, Frank Vincent, Anthony Holland, Dan Resin, Jill Larson, Maria Pitillo, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Mimi Cecchini, Tony Munafo, Tony Rizzoli, Rick Petrucelli	Black Comedy	Live action
	25	8 Million Ways to Die	TriStar Pictures / Producers Sales Organization	Hal Ashby (director); Oliver Stone, R. Lance Hill (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Andy García, Randy Brooks, Tom Lister Jr., Wilfredo Hernández, Luisa Leschin, Vyto Ruginis, James Avery, Lisa Sloan, Christa Denton, Vance Valencia, Henry O. Arnold	Crime	Live action
		Violets Are Blue	Columbia Pictures / Rastar	Jack Fisk (director); Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (screenplay); Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia, John Kellogg, Augusta Dabney, Mike Starr, Jim Standiford, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Annalee Jeffries, Adrian Sparks	Romance, Drama	Live action
M A Y	2	Blue City	Paramount Pictures	Michelle Manning (director); Lukas Heller, Walter Hill (screenplay); Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield, Scott Wilson, Anita Morris, Luis Contreras, Julie Carmen, Tommy Lister, Jr., Willard E. Pugh, Sam Whipple, Paddi Edwards, Rick Hurst, Allan Graf, Hank Stone, Rex Ryon, The Textones	Drama	Live action
		Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling	Columbia Pictures	Richard Pryor (director/screenplay); Rocco Urbisci, Paul Mooney (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Paula Kelly, Art Evans, Barbara Williams, Fay Hauser, Billy Eckstine, Diahnne Abbott, Carmen McRae, Debbie Allen, Tanya Boyd, Wings Hauser, Michael Ironside, Scoey Mitchell, Mike Genovese, Marlene Warfield, Virginia Capers, Dennis Farina, Frederick Coffin, Ken Foree, Beau Starr, Dennis Hayden, E'Lon Cox	Biography, Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Saving Grace	Columbia Pictures / Embassy Pictures	Robert M. Young (director); Richard Kramer, David S. Ward (screenplay); Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini, Donald Hewlett, Patricia Mauceri, Edward James Olmos, Marta Zoffoli	Comedy, Drama	Live action
	4	The Deliberate Stranger	NBC Productions / Warner Bros. Television / Lorimar Productions	Marvin J. Chomsky (director); Hesper Anderson (screenplay); Mark Harmon, Frederic Forrest, George Grizzard, Ben Masters, Glynnis O'Connor, M. Emmet Walsh, John Ashton, Bonnie Bartlett, Billy "Green" Bush, Frederick Coffin, Deborah Goodrich, Lawrence Pressman, Macon McCalman, Jeannetta Arnette, William Boyett, Harry Northup, Maggie Roswell	Crime, Drama, Thriller	Live action
		North and South: Book II, Love and War	ABC / David L. Wolper Productions / Warner Bros. Television	Kevin Connor (director); Richard Fielder, Douglas Heyes, John Jakes (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down, Wendy Kilbourne, Kirstie Alley, Jean Simmons, Terri Garber, Genie Francis, David Ogden Stiers, David Carradine, Jonathan Frakes, Hal Holbrook, Philip Casnoff, Lewis Smith, Parker Stevenson, Mary Crosby, Morgan Fairchild, Inga Swenson, Jim Metzler, Tony Frank, David Harris, Erica Gimpel, Forest Whitaker, Andrew Stahl, Kate McNeil, Lee Horsley, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Linda Evans, Wayne Newton, Beau Billingslea, Michael Dudikoff, Anthony Zerbe, Kurtwood Smith, Lloyd Bridges, William Schallert, Nancy Marchand, Clu Gulager, Ray Stricklyn, Robert Englund, Bryan Cranston, Gary Grubbs, Billy Drago, Whip Hubley, Bonnie Bartlett, Burton Gilliam, Maurice Roëves, Bumper Robinson, Jack Thibeau, Harry Northup, Leon Rippy, Mike Muscat	Drama, History, Romance	Live action
	9	Dangerously Close	Cannon Films	Albert Pyun (director); John Stockwell, Scott Fields, Marty Ross (screenplay); John Stockwell, Carey Lowell, Madison Mason, Bradford Bancroft, J. Eddie Peck	Action, Thriller	Live action
		Fire with Fire	Paramount Pictures	Duncan Gibbins (director); Warren Skaaren, Ben Phillips, Paul Boorstin, Sharon Boorstin (screenplay); Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer, Kate Reid, Jon Polito, J.J. Cohen, Jean Smart, Tim Russ, Kari Wuhrer, D.B. Sweeney, Ann Savage, David Harris	Romance, Drama	Live action
		Last Resort	Concorde Pictures	Zane Buzby (director); Jeff Buhai, Steve Zacharias (screenplay); Charles Grodin, Megan Mullally, John Ashton, Brenda Bakke, Gerrit Graham, Phil Hartman, Chip Johannessen, Steve Levitt, Jon Lovitz, David Mirkin, Mario Van Peebles, Jacob Vargas, Buck Young, Zane Buzby, Ian Abercrombie, Scott Nemes, Robin Pearson Rose, Christopher Ames, Ellen Blake, Michael Markowitz, Brett Baxter Clark	Comedy	Live action
		Short Circuit	TriStar Pictures / Producers Sales Organization	John Badham (director); S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock (screenplay); Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Brian McNamara, Tim Blaney, Marvin J. McIntyre, John Garber, Penny Santon, Vernon Weddle, Barbara Tarbuck, Jack Thompson, Jack Angel, Cam Clarke, Don Messick, John Badham, Sergio Kato	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
	14	Sweet Liberty	Universal Pictures	Alan Alda (director/screenplay); Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lise Hilboldt, Lillian Gish, Saul Rubinek, Lois Chiles, Linda Thorson	Comedy	Live action
	16	Hard Choices	Lorimar-Telepictures	Rick King (director/screenplay); Margaret Klenck, John Sayles, John Seitz, J.T. Walsh, John Snyder, Martin Donovan, Spalding Gray	Crime	Live action
		Top Gun	Paramount Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer	Tony Scott (director); Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside, John Stockwell, Barry Tubb, Rick Rossovich, Tim Robbins, James Tolkan, Meg Ryan, Clarence Gilyard, Whip Hubley, Adrian Pasdar	Action, Drama, Romance	Live action
	18	Stagecoach	CBS / MGM Television / Heritage Entertainment Inc. / Plantation Productions / Raymond Katz Production	Ted Post (director); James Lee Barrett (screenplay); Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Schneider, Elizabeth Ashley, Anthony Newley, Tony Franciosa, Merritt Butrick, Mary Crosby, June Carter Cash, Jessi Colter, David Allan Coe, Lash LaRue, John Carter Cash, Joe Unger, Billy Swan, Alex Kubic, Bob McLean, Michael Haynes, Kal Roberts	Western, Action, Drama	Live Action
	21	Crawlspace	Empire Pictures	David Schmoeller (director/screenplay); Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery, Carole Francis, Tané McClure, Sally Brown, Jack Heller, David Abbott, Kenneth Robert Shippy, Sherry Buchanan	Horror, Thriller	Live action
	23	Cobra	Warner Bros. Pictures / Cannon Films	George P. Cosmatos (director); Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson, John Herzfeld, Lee Garlington, Art LaFleur, Marco Rodríguez, Val Avery, David Rasche, Nick Angotti, Harry Demopoulos	Action	Live action
		Poltergeist II: The Other Side	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Brian Gibson (director); Michael Grais, Mark Victor (screenplay); JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins, Julian Beck, Zelda Rubinstein, Will Sampson, Geraldine Fitzgerald	Horror, Comedy	Live action
	30	Big Trouble	Columbia Pictures / Delphi III Productions	John Cassavetes (director); Warren Bogle (screenplay); Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Stack, Paul Dooley, Valerie Curtin, Richard Libertini, John Finnegan, Maryedith Burrell, Rosemarie Stack, Barbara Tarbuck, Warren Munson, Al White, Teddy Wilson, Jaime Sánchez, Steve Alterman, Jerry Pavlon, Paul La Greca, Edith Fields, Gloria Gifford	Comedy	Live action
		A Great Wall	Orion Classics	Peter Wang (director); Shirley Sun, Peter Wang (screenplay); Peter Wang, Kelvin Han Yee, Sharon Iwai	Comedy, Drama	Live action
J U N E	6	Invaders from Mars	Cannon Films	Tobe Hooper (director); Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby (screenplay); Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, Bud Cort, Louise Fletcher, Jimmy Hunt, Eric Pierpoint, Christopher Allport, Tony Cox	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
		My Little Pony: The Movie	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group / Hasbro / Sunbow Productions / Toei Animation	Michael Joens (director); George Arthur Bloom (screenplay); Cloris Leachman, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Madeline Kahn, Tony Randall, Charlie Adler, Russi Taylor, Nancy Cartwright, Cathy Cavadini, Katie Leigh, Alice Playten, Jon Bauman, Michael Bell, Susan Blu, Peter Cullen, Laura Dean, Ellen Gerstell, Scott Menville, Frank Welker, Tammy Amerson, Sheryl Bernstein, Keri Houlihan, Laurel Page, Sarah Partridge, Jill Wayne	Musical, Fantasy, Children	Animation
		Raw Deal	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group / Embassy Pictures	John Irvin (director); Gary DeVore, Norman Wexler (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Steven Hill, Ed Lauter, Joe Regalbuto, Robert Davi, Blanche Baker, Louise Robey, Mordecai Lawner, Victor Argo, George P. Wilbur, Gary Houston, Dick Durock, Thomas Rosales Jr., Ralph Foody, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Denver Mattson, John Malloy, Steve Holt, Frank Ferrara, Jack Hallett, Jay Butler, Tony DiBenedetto, Tom Hull, James Eric	Action	Live action
		SpaceCamp	20th Century Fox / ABC Motion Pictures	Harry Winer (director); Clifford Green, Casey T. Mitchell (screenplay); Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Joaquin Phoenix, Tate Donovan, Tom Skerritt, Barry Primus, Terry O'Quinn, Mitchell Anderson, Scott Coffey, Kevin Gage, Frank Welker, Pamela Adlon	Adventure	Live action
	11	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount Pictures	John Hughes (director/screenplay); Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Lyman Ward, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, Ben Stein, Charlie Sheen, Del Close, Virginia Capers, Richard Edson, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Kristy Swanson, Max Perlich, Scott Coffey, Eric Saiet, Jonathan Schmock, Joey D. Vieira, Louie Anderson, Stephanie Blake, Dee Dee Rescher, John Hughes	Comedy	Live action
	13	Back to School	Orion Pictures	Alan Metter (director); Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei, Harold Ramis, Will Porter (screenplay); Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead, Terry Farrell, M. Emmet Walsh, Adrienne Barbeau, William Zabka, Ned Beatty, Severn Darden, Sam Kinison, Robert Picardo, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Edie McClurg, Kimberlin Brown, Jason Hervey, Michael McGrady, Timothy Stack, Steve Sweeney, Oingo Boingo, David L. Snyder	Comedy	Live action
		Belizaire the Cajun	Skouras Pictures	Glen Pitre (director/screenplay); Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling, Stephen McHattie, Will Patton, Nancy Barrett, Loulan Pitre, Sr., Paul Landry, Robert Duvall, Bob Edmundson, Andre Delaunay, Jim Levert, Ernie Vincent, Allan Durand, Charlie Goulas	Drama, History, Romance	Live action
		The Manhattan Project	20th Century Fox	Marshall Brickman (director/screenplay); Thomas Baum (screenplay); John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, John Mahoney, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Sean Leonard, Richard Jenkins, Gregg Edelman	Thriller	Live action
		Mona Lisa	Island Pictures / HandMade Films	Neil Jordan (director/screenplay); David Leland (screenplay); Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Caine, Clarke Peters, Kate Hardie, Zoe Nathenson, Sammi Davis, Rod Bedall, Joe Brown, Pauline Melville, Hossein Karimbeik, Maggie O'Neill, Bryan Coleman, Robert Dorning, Perry Fenwick, John Darling	Crime, Drama	Live action
		Never Too Young to Die	Paul Entertainment	Gil Bettman (director/screenplay); Steven Paul, Anthony Foutz (screenplay); John Stamos, Vanity, Gene Simmons, George Lazenby, Robert Englund, John Anderson, Branscombe Richmond, Peter Kwong, Ed Brock, Randy Hall	Action, Adventure	Live action
	18	Legal Eagles	Universal Pictures	Ivan Reitman (director); Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay); Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, Steven Hill, Christine Baranski, Roscoe Lee Browne, David Clennon, John McMartin, Robert Curtis Brown, Grant Heslov, Sara Botsford, Jennifer Dundas, David Hart, James Hurdle, Gary Howard Klar, Christian Clemenson, Bruce French, Lynn Hamilton, Brian Doyle-Murray, Burke Byrnes, Bart Burns, Paul Jabara, Kristine Sutherland, Vincent Guastaferro, Ron Foster, Jay Thomas, Alex Nevil, Lou Cutell, Liz Sheridan, Marshall Bell	Comedy	Live action
	20	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia Pictures	John G. Avildsen (director); Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Nobu McCarthy, Tamlyn Tomita, Yuji Okumoto, Joey Miyashima, Marc Hayashi, Danny Kamekona, Tony O'Dell, Martin Kove, William Zabka, Ron Thomas, Rob Garrison, B.D. Wong, Clarence Gilyard	Martial Arts, Drama	Live action
	23	Liberty	NBC Productions	Richard C. Sarafian (director); Pete Hamill (screenplay); Chris Sarandon, Frank Langella, Carrie Fisher, Dana Delany, Corinne Touzet, George Kennedy, Claire Bloom, LeVar Burton, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Remak Ramsay, Philip Bosco, Alan North, Max Wright, Jean De Baer, Dennis Boutsikaris, Walter Gotell, Angela Bassett, Richard C. Sarafian	Drama, History	Live action
	27	American Anthem	Columbia Pictures / Lorimar Motion Pictures	Albert Magnoli (director); Evan Archerd, Jeff Benjamin (screenplay); Mitch Gaylord, Janet Jones, Michael Pataki, Patrice Donnelly, R.J. Williams, John Aprea, Michelle Phillips, Jenny Ester, Megan Marsden, Li Yuejiu, Tiny Wells, Kathrine Godney, Stacy Maloney, Peter Tramm, Maria Anz, Andrew White, Dick McGarvin, Mark Oates, Jan Claire, Googy Gress	Sports, Drama	Live action
		Labyrinth	TriStar Pictures / The Jim Henson Company / Lucasfilm	Jim Henson (director); Terry Jones (screenplay); David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Christopher Malcolm, Shelley Thompson, Natalie Finland, Michael Moschen, Brian Henson, Ron Mueck, Dave Goelz, David Barclay, David Shaughnessy, Karen Prell, Timothy Bateson, Frank Oz, Michael Hordern, Denise Bryer, Steve Whitmire, Anthony Jackson, Kevin Clash, Douglas Blackwell, Anthony Asbury, David Healy, Robert Beatty, Toby Philpott, Charles Augins, Cheryl Henson, Danny John-Jules, Richard Bodkin, Percy Edwards, Don Austen, Ronnie Le Drew, Kathryn Mullen, Nigel Plaskitt, Michael Quinn, David Rudman, Robin Stevens, Mak Wilson, Francis Wright, Sean Barrett, John Bluthal, Steve Nallon, Jan Ravens, Enn Reitel, Kerry Shale, Kenny Baker, Warwick Davis, Malcolm Dixon	Adventure, Fantasy, Musical	Live action / Puppetry
		Running Scared	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Peter Hyams (director); Gary DeVore, Jimmy Huston (screenplay); Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano, Dan Hedaya, Jon Gries, Tracy Reed, Jimmy Smits, John DiSanti, Larry Hankin, Don Calfa, Robert Lesser, Deanna Dunagan, Stephen Burrows, Luis Contreras, Al Leong	Action, Comedy	Live action
		Ruthless People	Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners	David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker (directors); Dale Launer (screenplay); Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, William G. Schilling, Art Evans, Clarence Felder, J.E. Freeman, Gary Riley, Susan Marie Snyder, Jim Doughan, Frank Sivero, Bob Tzudiker, Charlotte Zucker, Phil Hartman, Vince McMahon, George "The Animal" Steele	Black Comedy	Live action

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	2	About Last Night	TriStar Pictures	Edward Zwick (director); Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue (screenplay); Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo, Robin Thomas, Megan Mullally, Sachi Parker, Rosanna DeSoto, Catherine Keener, Ada Maris, Joe Greco, Robert Neches	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Big Trouble in Little China	20th Century Fox	John Carpenter (director); Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Chao-Li Chi, Jeff Imada, Al Leong, Gerald Okamura, Nathan Jung, Lia Chang, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Frank Ho, James Lew, Noble Craig	Action, Fantasy	Live action
		The Great Mouse Detective	Walt Disney Pictures	Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, John Musker (directors/screenplay); Matthew O'Callaghan, Mel Shaw, Pete Young, Vance Gerry, Steve Hulett, Bruce Morris (screenplay); Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Alan Young, Diana Chesney, Eve Brenner, Frank Welker, Basil Rathbone, Laurie Main, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Walker Edmiston, Melissa Manchester	Family, Mystery, Comedy	Animation
		Psycho III	Universal Pictures	Anthony Perkins (director); Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay); Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin, Robert Alan Browne, Lee Garlington, Donovan Scott, Karen Hensel, Jack Murdock, Katt Shea, Janet Leigh, Claudia Bryar, Gary Bayer, Juliette Cummins	Slasher, Horror	Live action
		Under the Cherry Moon	Warner Bros. Pictures	Prince (director); Becky Johnston (screenplay); Prince, Jerome Benton, Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Berkoff, Emmanuelle Sallet, Alexandra Stewart, Francesca Annis, Victor Spinetti, Myriam Tadesse, Moune De Vivier	Musical, Drama	Live action
	4	Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf	Hemdale Film Corporation / Granite Productions	Philippe Mora (director); Robert Sarno, Gary Brandner (screenplay); Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Marsha Hunt, Sybil Danning, Ferdy Mayne, Jimmy Nail, Ivo Niederle, Jan Kraus, Judd Omen, Patrick Field, Ladislav Krečmer, Valerie Kaplanová	Horror	Live action
	11	Club Paradise	Warner Bros. Pictures	Harold Ramis (director/screenplay); Brian Doyle-Murray (screenplay); Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, Adolph Caesar, Eugene Levy, Joanna Cassidy, Andrea Martin, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joe Flaherty, Steven Kampmann, Robin Duke, Mary Gross, Simon Jones, Louise Bennett, Ansell "Double Barrel" Cousins, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Carey Lowell, Louis Zorich, Bruce McGill, Anne Ramis	Comedy	Live action
		Miracles	Orion Pictures	Jim Kouf (director/screenplay); Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, Adalberto Martínez, Jorge Reynoso, Ken Lerner, Charles Rocket, Brion James, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Erika Faraon, Paco Morayta, Barbara Whinnery, Squire Fridell, Ken Hixon, Jorge Russek, Shelby Leverington	Comedy	Live action
	18	Aliens	20th Century Fox / Brandywine Productions	James Cameron (director/screenplay); Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping, Trevor Steedman, Paul Maxwell, Carl Toop	Sci-Fi, Action	Live action
		Vamp	New World Pictures	Richard Wenk (director/screenplay); Donald P. Borchers (screenplay); Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Drago, Lisa Lyon	Comedy, Horror	Live action
	25	Echo Park	Orion Pictures	Robert Dornhelm (director); Michael Ventura (screenplay); Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Michael Bowen, Cheech Marin, John Paragon, Cassandra Peterson	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Haunted Honeymoon	Orion Pictures	Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Terence Marsh (screenplay); Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L. Smith, Bryan Pringle, Peter Vaughan, Eve Ferret, Jim Carter, Jo Ross, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ann Way, Sally Osborne	Comedy, Horror	Live action
		Heartburn	Paramount Pictures	Mike Nichols (director); Nora Ephron (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing, Jeff Daniels, Miloš Forman, Steven Hill, Catherine O'Hara, Mamie Gummer, Joanna Gleason, Anna Maria Horsford, Richard Masur, Maureen Stapleton, Mercedes Ruehl, Kevin Spacey, Dana Ivey, Karen Akers, Jack Gilpin, Kenneth Welsh	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Maximum Overdrive	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	Stephen King (director/screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murney, Yeardley Smith, Frankie Faison, Leon Rippy, J.C. Quinn, Holter Graham, John Short, Ellen McElduff, Barry Bell, Patrick Miller, J. Don Ferguson, Giancarlo Esposito, Marla Maples, Stephen King	Action, Horror	Live action
		Out of Bounds	Columbia Pictures	Richard Tuggle (director); Tony Kayden (screenplay); Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman, Raymond J. Barry, Pepe Serna, Michele Little, Jerry Levine, Meat Loaf, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Kevin McCorkle, Linda Shayne, Maggie Gwinn, Ted Gehring, Allan Graf, John Vickery, David Chung, John Tarnoff, Dan Lewk, Tony Acierto, Tony Kayden, Jennifer Balgobin	Action, Thriller	Live action
		The Patriot	Crown International Pictures	Frank Harris (director); Andy Ruben, Katt Shea Ruben (screenplay); Gregg Henry, Simone Griffeth, Michael J. Pollard, Jeff Conaway, Stack Pierce, Leslie Nielsen, Glenn Withrow, Diane Stevenett, Mike Gomez, Larry Mintz, Anthony Caldarella, Larry Moss, Smith Osbourne, Sally Brown	Action	Live action
		Robotech: The Movie	Cannon Films / Harmony Gold USA / Tatsunoko Production / Anime International Company	Noboru Ishiguro, Carl Macek (directors); Ardwight Chamberlain (screenplay); Kerrigan Mahan, Iona Morris, Diane Michelle, Gregory Snegoff, Edie Mirman, Wendee Lee, Robert V. Barron, Michael McConnohie, Greg Finley, Frank Catalano, Bill Capizzi, Richard Epcar, Dave Mallow, Edward Mannix, Mike Reynolds, Tom Wyner, Wayne Anthony, Etienne Bannuett, Jaque Maecell, Ike Medlick, Spike Niblick, Bruce Winant	Sci-Fi	Anime
	26	The Parent Trap II	The Disney Channel / Walt Disney Television	Ronald F. Maxwell (director); Stu Krieger (screenplay); Hayley Mills, Tom Skerritt, Carrie Kei Heim, Bridgette Andersen, Alex Harvey, Gloria Cromwell, Judith Tannen	Comedy, Family	Live action
	27	C.A.T. Squad	NBC Productions	William Friedkin (director); Gerald Petievich (screenplay); Joe Cortese, Jack Youngblood, Steve James, Bradley Whitford, Patricia Charbonneau, Barry Corbin, Eddie Velez, Anna Maria Horsford, Thomas Hauff, Vlasta Vrána, John Novak, Michael Sinelnikoff, Nanette Workman, Guy Provost, Nick Ramus, Rick Garcia, Frank Military, Anne E. Curry, Sam Gray	Action, Drama	Live action
	30	The Assam Garden	Paramount Pictures / Moving Picture Company	Mary McMurray (director); Elisabeth Bond (screenplay); Deborah Kerr	Drama	Live action
		Asterix Versus Caesar	Gaumont	Jacques Barclay (director); Edward Marcus (screenplay); Jack Beaber, Bill Kearns	Comedy, Family	Animation
		Nothing in Common	TriStar Pictures / Rastar	Garry Marshall (director); Rick Podell, Michael Preminger (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Hector Elizondo, Barry Corbin, Bess Armstrong, Sela Ward, John Kapelos, Anthony Starke, Dan Castellaneta, Michael G. Hagerty, Toni Hudson, Bruce A. Young, Kathleen Marshall, Scott Marshall, Kim Genelle, Lynda Goodfriend, Andra Akers, Tracy Reiner, Sam Denoff, Johnny Yune, Lorna Thayer, Meg Wyllie, Jeris Lee Poindexter, Frank Campanella, Conrad Janis, Philip Baker Hall, Richard Kind, Cindy Harrell, Bill Applebaum, Mona Lyden, Julio Alonso, Jane Morris, Jeff Michalski, Ben Rawnsley, Mark von Holstein, Ron Dean, Steve Sheridan, Vincent Guastaferro, John Antony, Harvey Keenan	Comedy, Drama	Live action
A U G U S T	1	Choke Canyon	United Film Distribution	Charles Bail (director); Ovidio G. Assonitis, Alfonso Brescia, Sheila Goldberg (screenplay); Stephen Collins, Janet Julian, Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen, Nicholas Pryor	Sci-Fi	Live action
		Flight of the Navigator	Walt Disney Pictures / Producers Sales Organization	Randal Kleiser (director); Michael Burton, Matt MacManus (screenplay); Joey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler, Howard Hesseman, Jonathan Sanger, Iris Acker, Richard Liberty, Raymond Forchion, Keri Rogers, Albie Whitaker	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live action
		Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives	Paramount Pictures	Tom McLoughlin (director/screenplay); Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Renée Jones, Kerry Noonan, Darcy DeMoss, Tom Fridley, Tony Goldwyn, C.J. Graham, Dan Bradley, Alan Blumenfeld, Ron Palillo, Michael Swan, Whitney Rydbeck, Roger Rose, Nancy McLoughlin, Matthew Faison, Ann Ryerson, Vincent Guastaferro, Courtney Vickery, Bob Larkin, Wallace Merck, Cynthia Kania, Michael Nomad, Justin Nowell, Tommy Nowell	Slasher	Live action
		Good to Go	Island Pictures	Blaine Novak (director/screenplay); Art Garfunkel, Robert DoQui, Harris Yulin, Richard Brooks, Richard Bauer, Hattie Winston, Fab Five Freddy, Anjelica Huston, Reginald Daughtry, Paula Davis, Michael White	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		Howard the Duck	Universal Pictures / Lucasfilm / Marvel Entertainment	Willard Huyck (director/screenplay); Gloria Katz (screenplay); Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Chip Zien, David Paymer, Paul Guilfoyle, Liz Sagal, Holly Robinson, Richard Edson, Dominique Davalos, Tommy Swerdlow, Miles Chapin, Paul Comi, Richard McGonagle, Virginia Capers, Miguel Sandoval, William Hall, Richard Kiley, Ed Gale, Jordan Prentice, Tim Rose, Peter Baird, Steve Sleap, Mary Wells, Lisa Sturz, Brian Steele	Comedy, Sci-Fi	Live action
	8	A Fine Mess	Columbia Pictures	Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, María Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Edwards, Paul Sorvino, Rick Ducommun, Keye Luke, Dennis Franz, Larry Storch, Ed Herlihy, Walter Charles, Tawny Moyer, Emma Walton, Carrie Leigh, Sharan Lea	Comedy	Live action
		One Crazy Summer	Warner Bros. Pictures / A&M Films	Savage Steve Holland (director/screenplay); John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, Joel Murray, William Hickey, Joe Flaherty, Mark Metcalf, John Matuszak, Kimberly Foster, Matt Mulhern, Rich Little, Tom Villard, Jeremy Piven, Rich Hall, Taylor Negron, Billie Bird, Bruce Wagner	Romantic Comedy	Live action
		She's Gotta Have It	Island Pictures / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks	Spike Lee (director/screenplay); Tracy Camilla Johns, Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell, Joie Lee, S. Epatha Merkerson, Bill Lee, Monty Ross, Erik Dellums, Reginald Hudlin, Ernest Dickerson, Fab Five Freddy, Dennis Karika, Tiziano Cortini, Eric Payne, Marcus Turner, Gerard Brown, Eric Wilkins, Scott Sillers, Geoffrey Garfield	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		The Transformers: The Movie	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group / Hasbro / Sunbow Productions / Toei Animation	Nelson Shin (director); Ron Friedman (screenplay); Peter Cullen, Judd Nelson, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Lionel Stander, Eric Idle, John Moschitta Jr., Frank Welker, Dan Gilvezan, Chris Latta, Casey Kasem, Scatman Crothers, Michael Bell, Corey Burton, Orson Welles, Neil Ross, Susan Blu, Buster Jones, Paul Eiding, Gregg Berger, Roger C. Carmel, Stanley Jones, Arthur Burghardt, Don Messick, Jack Angel, Ed Gilbert, Clive Revill, Hal Rayle, David Mendenhall, Norman Alden, Victor Caroli	Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure	Animation
	15	Armed and Dangerous	Columbia Pictures	Mark L. Lester (director); Brian Grazer, James Keach, Harold Ramis, Peter Torokvei (screenplay); John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan, Brion James, Jonathan Banks, Tom Lister Jr., James Tolkan, Don Stroud, Larry Hankin, Steve Railsback, Robert Burgos, Tony Burton, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Stacy Keach, Sr., Teagan Clive, David Wohl, Glenn Withrow, Tito Puente, Saveliy Kramarov	Comedy, Action, Crime	Live action
		The Fly	20th Century Fox	David Cronenberg (director/screenplay); Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay); Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, David Cronenberg	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
		Manhunter	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	Michael Mann (director/screenplay); William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan	Crime, Horror, Thriller	Live action
	22	Extremities	Paramount Pictures / Atlantic Releasing Corporation	Robert M. Young (director); William Mastrosimone (screenplay); Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid, Alfre Woodard, Sandy Martin, Tom Everett, Enid Kent, Clare Wren, James Avery, Eddie Velez, Donna Lynn Leavy, Michael Hennessy, Danika Hendrickson	Thriller	Live action
		Night of the Creeps	TriStar Pictures	Fred Dekker (director/screenplay); Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Allan Kayser, Wally Taylor, Bruce Solomon, David Paymer, David Oliver, Dick Miller, Suzanne Snyder, John J. York, Jay Arlen Jones, Elizabeth Alda, Lori Lively, Dan Frischman, Shane Black, Robert Kurtzman, Howard Berger, Robert Kerman, Ken Heron, Alice Cadogan, June Harris, Robert Kino, Vic Polizos, Evelyne Smith, Dave Alan Johnson	Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy	Live action
		Stand by Me	Columbia Pictures	Rob Reiner (director); Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon (screenplay); Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Bruce Kirby, William Bronder, Scott Beach, Richard Dreyfuss, Jason Oliver, Andy Lindberg, Madeleine Swift, Kent Luttrell	Drama	Live action
		The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	Cannon Films	Tobe Hooper (director); L.M. Kit Carson (screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow, Bill Johnson, Bill Moseley, Lou Perryman, Judy Kelly, Chris Douridas, Ken Evert, Kinky Friedman, Dan Jenkins, Joe Bob Briggs	Slasher, Black Comedy	Live action
	30	Shanghai Surprise	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / HandMade Films	Jim Goddard (director); John Kohn, Robert Bentley (screenplay); Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths, Philip Sayer, Clyde Kusatsu, George Harrison, Victor Wong, Lim Kay Tong	Comedy, Adventure	Live action
S E P T E M B E R	10	'night, Mother	Universal Pictures / Aaron Spelling Productions	Tom Moore (director); Marsha Norman (screenplay); Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins, Jennifer Roosendahl, Michael Kenworthy, Sari Walker, Claire Malis	Drama	Live action
	13	Avenging Force	Cannon Films / Golan-Globus	Sam Firstenberg (director); James Booth (screenplay); Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, John P. Ryan, William Wallace, Marc Alaimo, James Booth, Karl Johnson, Allison Gereighty	Action	Live action
	19	Blue Velvet	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	David Lynch (director/screenplay); Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, Fred Pickler, Angelo Badalamenti, Jack Harvey, Ken Stovitz, J. Michael Hunter, Dick Green, Jon Jon Snipes	Mystery	Live action
		The Men's Club	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	Peter Medak (director); Leonard Michaels (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, Treat Williams, David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Craig Wasson, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ann Wedgeworth, Gina Gallego, Cindy Pickett, Gwen Welles, Penny Baker, Claudia Cron, Ann Dusenberry, Rebeccah Bush, Marilyn Jones, Manette La Chance	Drama	Live action
		Where the River Runs Black	MGM Entertainment Co.	Christopher Cain (director); Neal Jimenez, Peter Silverman (screenplay); Charles Durning, Peter Horton, Dana Delany, Ajay Naidu, Cástulo Guerra, Conchata Ferrell, Chico Díaz, Paulo Sergio Oliveira, Alessandro Rabelo, Marcelo Rabelo, Ariel Coelho, Divana Brandão	Adventure	Live action
	20	Down by Law	Island Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment	Jim Jarmusch (director/screenplay); Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal, Rockets Redglare, Vernel Bagneris, Joy N. Houck, Jr., Timothea, L.C. Drane, Carrie Lindsoe, Ralph Joseph, Richard Boes, Dave Petitjean	Comedy	Live action
	21	George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation	CBS / MGM/UA Television / David Gerber Productions	William A. Graham (director); Richard Fielder (screenplay); Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke Astin, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Bekins, Penny Fuller, Marcia Cross, Norman Snow, Lise Hilboldt, Haviland Morris, Daniel Davis, Richard Fancy, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Leo Burmester, Paul Collins, Erika Alexander, Eve Gordon, Christopher Goutman, Jonathan Farwell, Jeff Hayenga, Guy Paul, Farnham Scott, Nicholas Kepros, Robert Kelly, Clayton Prince, Timothy Landfield, Gregory Abels, Robert Billbrough, John Timmons	Biography, Drama, History	Live action
	24	The Name of the Rose	20th Century Fox / ZDF / France 3	Jean-Jacques Annaud (director); Andrew Birkin, Gérard Brach, Howard Franklin, Alain Godard (screenplay); Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Christian Slater, Valentina Vargas, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin, Volker Prechtel, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Valobra, Vernon Dobtcheff, Donald O'Brien, Andrew Birkin, Lucien Bodard, Peter Berling, Pete Lancaster, Dwight Weist	Drama, Mystery	Live action
	26	The Boy Who Could Fly	20th Century Fox / Lorimar Film Entertainment	Nick Castle (director/screenplay); Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Fred Gwynne, Colleen Dewhurst, Mindy Cohn, Janet MacLachlan, Jason Priestley, Cameron Bancroft, Louise Fletcher	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		Crocodile Dundee	Paramount Pictures	Peter Faiman (director); Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell (screenplay); Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, Michael Lombard, John Meillon, Reginald VelJohnson, Terry Gill, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Caitlin Clarke, John Snyder, Anne Carlisle, Anne Francine, Paul Greco, David Bracks, Peter Turnbull, Rik Colitti, Christine Totos, Graham 'Grace' Walker, Nancy Mette, Paige Matthews	Comedy	Live action
		Half Moon Street	20th Century Fox / RKO Pictures	Bob Swaim (director/screenplay); Edward Behr, Paul Theroux (screenplay); Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Keith Buckley, Nadim Sawalha, Vincent Lindon, Michael Elwyn, Ram John Holder, Niall O'Brien, Donald Pickering, Maria Aitken, Angus MacInnes, Togo Igawa, Rupert Vansittart, Anne Lambton, Philip Whitchurch, Robert Lee, Janet McTeer, Carol Cleveland, Siobhan Redmond, Faith Kent, Ann Hanson, Patrick Newman, Muriel Villiers, Ninka Scott, Jasper Jacob, Joseph Karimbeik, Anita Edwards, John Sinclair, Eiji Kusuhara, Katherine Schofield	Erotic Thriller	Live action
		That's Life!	Columbia Pictures	Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Milton Wexler (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards, Rob Knepper, Matt Lattanzi, Chris Lemmon, Cynthia Sikes, Dana Sparks, Emma Walton, Felicia Farr, Theodore Wilson	Comedy, Drama	Live action

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	3	Children of a Lesser God	Paramount Pictures	Randa Haines (director); Mark Medoff, Hesper Anderson (screenplay); Marlee Matlin, William Hurt, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Linda Bove, Allison Gompf, Bob Hiltermann	Romance, Drama	Live action
		Round Midnight	Warner Bros. Pictures / Little Bear / PECF	Bertrand Tavernier (director/screenplay); David Rayfiel, Colo Tavernier (screenplay); Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee, Christine Pascal, Herbie Hancock, John Berry, Martin Scorsese, Bobby Hutcherson, Liliane Rovère, Pierre Trabaud, Benoît Régent, Arthur French, Philippe Noiret, Alain Sarde, Eddy Mitchell, Billy Higgins, John McLaughlin, Pierre Michelot, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Palle Mikkelborg, Mads Vinding, Cheikh Fall, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, Gabrielle Haker, Frédérique Meininger, Hart Leroy Bibbs, Ged Marlon, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Éric Le Lann, Michel Pérez	Musical, Drama	Live action
		Tough Guys	Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / The Bryna Company	Jeff Kanew (director); James Orr, James Cruikshank (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Eli Wallach, Billy Barty, Darlene Conley, Nathan Davis, Grant Aleksander, Monty Ash, Simmy Bow, Graham Jarvis, Ernie Sabella, Hilary Shepard, Jake Steinfeld, John Mariano, Jimmy Lennon, Michele Marsh, Todd Hallowell, Ellen Albertini Dow, Red Hot Chili Peppers	Action, Comedy	Live action
	8	The Color of Money	Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners	Martin Scorsese (director); Richard Price (screenplay); Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker, Keith McCready, Elizabeth Bracco, Ron Dean, Iggy Pop, Charles Scorsese, Bruce A. Young	Drama	Live action
	10	Deadly Friend	Warner Bros. Pictures	Wes Craven (director); Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay); Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Richard Marcus, Anne Ramsey, Lee Paul, Russ Marin, Charles Fleischer	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live action
		Jumpin' Jack Flash	20th Century Fox / Silver Pictures	Penny Marshall (director); David Franzoni, Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, Chris Thompson (screenplay); Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Jeroen Krabbé, Jim Belushi, Sara Botsford, Peter Michael Goetz, Roscoe Lee Browne, Vyto Ruginis, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Teagan Clive, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Michael McKean, Tracey Ullman, Tracy Reiner	Spy, Comedy	Live action
		Peggy Sue Got Married	TriStar Pictures / American Zoetrope / Rastar	Francis Ford Coppola (director); Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner (screenplay); Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jim Carrey, Lisa Jane Persky, Lucinda Jenney, Wil Shriner, Barbara Harris, Don Murray, Sofia Coppola, Maureen O'Sullivan, Leon Ames, Helen Hunt, Don Stark, Marshall Crenshaw, Glenn Withrow, Harry Basil, John Carradine, Sachi Parker	Comedy, Drama	Live action
		True Stories	Warner Bros. Pictures	David Byrne (director/screenplay); Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley (screenplay); John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Pops Staples, Tito Larriva, David Byrne, John Ingle, Jo Harvey Allen	Musical, Comedy	Live action
	24	Soul Man	New World Pictures	Steve Miner (director); Carol Black (screenplay); C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James B. Sikking, Leslie Nielsen, James Earl Jones, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maree Cheatham, Wallace Langham, Melora Hardin	Comedy	Live action
		Trick or Treat	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	Charles Martin Smith (director); Joel Soisson, Michael S. Murphey (screenplay); Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant, Elaine Joyce, Glen Morgan, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Nunn, Charles Martin Smith, Clare Nono	Horror	Live action
	31	Let's Get Harry	TriStar Pictures	Stuart Rosenberg (director); Charles Robert Carner (screenplay); Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Rick Rossovich, Gary Busey, Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall, Ben Johnson, Elpidia Carrillo, Matt Clark, Bruce Gray, Jerry Hardin, David Hess, Pierrino Mascarino, Gregory Sierra, John Wesley, Eusebio Dominguez	Action	Live action
N O V E M B E R	7	52 Pick-Up	Cannon Films	John Frankenheimer (director); John Steppling, Elmore Leonard (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Lonny Chapman, Kelly Preston, Robert Trebor, Doug McClure, Tom Byron, Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy Hyatt, Amber Lynn, Sharon Mitchell	Crime, Thriller	Live action
		Modern Girls	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	Jerry Kramer (director); Laurie Craig, Anita Rosenberg (screenplay); Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Daphne Zuniga, Clayton Rohner, Chris Nash, Stephen Shellen, Rick Overton, John Dye, Martin Ferrero, Troy Evans, Mark Holton, Stuart Charno, Cameron Thor, Ron Campbell, Josh Richman, Pamela Springsteen, Mike Muscat	Comedy	Live action
		Sid and Nancy	The Samuel Goldwyn Company / Palace Pictures / Zenith Productions	Alex Cox (director/screenplay); Abbe Wool (screenplay); Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Courtney Love, Edward Tudor-Pole, Kathy Burke, Sara Sugarman, Sy Richardson, Anne Lambton, Mark Monero, Biff Yeager, Peter Lee-Wilson, Gloria LeRoy, Milton Selzer, Iggy Pop, Tony London, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Michele Winstanley, Andy Bradford, Barbara Coles	Biopic	Live action
		Something Wild	Orion Pictures	Jonathan Demme (director); E. Max Frye (screenplay); Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta, Robert Ridgely, Adelle Lutz, Margaret Colin, Jack Gilpin, Su Tissue, Charles Napier, John Sayles, Tracey Walter, Gary Goetzman, John Waters, Sister Carol, The Feelies, Buzz Kilman	Action, Comedy	Live action
		Tai-Pan	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	Daryl Duke (director); John Briley, James Clavell, Stanley Mann (screenplay); Bryan Brown, John Stanton, Joan Chen, Tim Guinee, Bill Leadbitter, Russell Wong, Katy Behean, Kyra Sedgwick, Janine Turner, Norman Rodway, John Bennett, Derrick Branche, Vic Armstrong, Rosemarie Dunham, Robert Easton, Nicholas Gecks, Pat Gorman, Michael C. Gwynne, Denise Kellogg, Patrick Ryecart, Rob Spendlove, Dickey Beer, Cheng Chuang, Chen Shu, Richard Foo, Carol Gillies, Billy Horrigan, Phil Chatterton, Frans Dames	Adventure, Drama	Live action
	8	Quiet Cool	New Line Cinema	Clay Borris (director/screenplay); Susan Vercellino (screenplay); James Remar, Adam Coleman Howard, Daphne Ashbrook, Jared Martin, Nick Cassavetes, Joey Sagal, Chris Mulkey, Clayton Landey, Fran Ryan, Ted White, Rob Moran, Brooks Gardner, Travis McKenna	Action	Live action
	12	Heat	New Century Vista	Dick Richards, Jerry Jameson (directors); William Goldman (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Neill Barry, Howard Hesseman, Diana Scarwid, Joseph Mascolo, Deborah Rush, Wendell Burton, Joe Klecko, Pete Koch	Action, Thriller	Live action
	14	Hoosiers	Orion Pictures	David Anspaugh (director); Angelo Pizzo (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Maris Valainis, Brad Long, Steve Hollar, Fern Persons, Chelcie Ross, David Neidorf, Brad Boyle, Wade Schenck, Kent Poole, Scott Summers	Sports	Live action
		Streets of Gold	20th Century Fox	Joe Roth (director); Heywood Gould, Richard Price, Tom Cole, Dezsö Magyar (screenplay); Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Angela Molina, Elya Baskin, Rainbow Harvest, John Mahoney, Dan O'Shea	Drama	Live action
	16	Fresno	CBS / MTM Enterprises	Jeff Bleckner (director); Mark Ganzel, Barry Kemp, Michael Petryni (screenplay); Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Charles Grodin, Gregory Harrison, Valerie Mahaffey, Luis Avalos, Pat Corley, Anthony Heald, Teresa Ganzel, Bill Paxton, Jerry Van Dyke, Charles Keating, Melanie Chartoff, Michael Richards, J.E. Freeman, Jeffrey Jones, Louise Latham, Henry Darrow, Tammy Lauren, Natalie Gregory, Tom Poston, George D. Wallace, Dakin Matthews, Raye Birk, Thomas Hill, Jack Kehler, Todd Susman, Bill McIntyre, Robert Hanley, John Hancock, William Lanteau, James Carroll, Sandy Martin, Lisle Wilson, Marianne Muellerleile, Rose Weaver, Peter Scolari	Comedy	Live action
	21	An American Tail	Universal Pictures / Sullivan Bluth Studios / Amblin Entertainment	Don Bluth (director); Don Bluth, John Pomeroy, Gary Goldman (producers); Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss (screenplay); David Kirschner, Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss (story); David Kirschner (creator); Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall (executive producers); Steven Spielberg, David Kirschner (executive producers); Cynthia Weil, James Horner, Barry Mann (original songs), James Horner (music); Phillip Glasser, Amy Green, Nehemiah Persoff, Erica Yohn, Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Pat Musick, Cathianne Blore, John Finnegan, Will Ryan, Hal Smith, Neil Ross, Madeline Kahn, Dan Kuenster	Musical, Adventure, Drama, Family	Animation
		Defense of the Realm	Hemdale Film Corporation	David Drury (director); Martin Stellman (screenplay); Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Frederick Treves, Robbie Coltrane, Annabel Leventon, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Danny Webb, Prentis Hancock, Mark Tandy, Oliver Ford Davies, George Ellis Jonesas, James Fleet, Lyndon Brook, Philip Whitchurch, Laurance Rudic	Thriller	Live action
		Firewalker	Cannon Films	J. Lee Thompson (director); Robert Gosnell (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Abercrombie, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, John Hazelwood, Richard Lee-Sung, Álvaro Carcaño, Dale Payne, Kevin Zinter, Mário Arévalo, Miguel Ángel Fuentes	Action, Adventure	Live action
		Song of the South (re-issue)	Walt Disney Pictures	Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson (director); Morton Grant, Maurice Rapf, Dalton S. Reymond, Bill Peet, George Stallings, Ralph Wright (screenplay); James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Ruth Warrick, Hattie McDaniel, Lucile Watson, Mary Field, Johnny Lee, Nick Stewart, Roy Glenn, Clarence Nash, Glenn Leedy, Erik Rolf, Olivier Urbain, Anita Brown, George Nokes, Gene Holland, Helen Crozier	Musical, Drama	Live action / Animation
		The Wraith	New Century Vista	Mike Marvin (director/screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Matthew Barry, Clint Howard, Griffin O'Neal, David Sherrill, Jamie Bozian, Chris Nash, Christopher Bradley, Jeffrey Sudzin, Peder Melhuse, Michael Hundrtford, Dick Alexander, Vickie Benson, Steven Eckholdt, Elizabeth Cox, Joan H. Reynolds	Action, Horror	Live action
	26	The Mosquito Coast	Warner Bros. Pictures	Peter Weir (director); Paul Schrader (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, Dick O'Neill, Jadrien Steele, Jason Alexander, William Newman, Aurora Clavel, Butterfly McQueen, Melanie Boland, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Alice Heffernan-Sneed	Drama	Live action
		Nutcracker: The Motion Picture	Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Hyperion Pictures / The Kushner-Locke Company	Carroll Ballard (director)	Musical, Christmas	Live action
		Solarbabies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Alan Johnson (director); Walon Green, Douglas Anthony Metrov (screenplay); Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, Charles Durning, James LeGros, Peter DeLuise, Adrian Pasdar, Sarah Douglas, Frank Converse, Terrence Mann, Alexei Sayle, Bruce Payne, Willoughby Gray, Claude Brooks, Peter Kowanko	Sci-Fi	Live action
		Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount Pictures	Leonard Nimoy (director); Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer, Harve Bennett (screenplay); William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Mark Lenard, Robin Curtis, Robert Ellenstein, John Schuck, Brock Peters, Michael Berryman, Grace Lee Whitney, Jane Wiedlin, Vijay Amritraj, Majel Barrett, Nick Ramus, Kirk R. Thatcher, Jeff Lester, Joe Lando, Madge Sinclair	Sci-Fi	Live action
	28	Eye of the Tiger	Village Roadshow Pictures	Richard C. Sarafian (director); Michael Thomas Montgomery (screenplay); Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, Denise Galik, William Smith, Judith Barsi, Kimberlin Brown, Ted Markland	Action, Drama	Live action
D E C E M B E R	5	Heartbreak Ridge	Warner Bros. Pictures / Malpaso Productions	Clint Eastwood (director); James Carabastos, Joseph Stinson (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart, Bo Svenson, Boyd Gaines, Mario Van Peebles, Vincent Irizarry, Ramón Franco, Tom Villard, Mike Gomez, Peter Koch, Richard Venture, Peter Jason, John Hostetter, Mark Mattingly, Arlen Dean Snyder, Rodney Hill	War	Live action
	12	Crimes of the Heart	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	Bruce Beresford (director); Beth Henley (screenplay); Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, Hurd Hatfield, Beeson Carroll, David Carpenter	Black Comedy	Live action
		The Golden Child	Paramount Pictures / Industrial Light & Magic	Michael Ritchie (director); Dennis Feldman (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance, Victor Wong, Randall "Tex" Cobb, James Hong, Tiger Chung Lee, Pons Maar, Wally Taylor, Eric Douglas, Charles Levin, Marilyn Schreffler, Frank Welker, J.L. Reate, Shakti Chen, Tau Logo, Peter Kwong	Comedy, Fantasy	Live action
		Native Son	Cinecom Pictures	Jerrold Freedman (director); Richard Wesley (screenplay); Victor Love, Elizabeth McGovern, Matt Dillon, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Carroll Baker, John McMartin, Art Evans, John Karlen, Willard E. Pugh, Ving Rhames	Drama	Live action
		Three Amigos	Orion Pictures / HBO Films	John Landis (director); Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman (screenplay); Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Patrice Martinez, Joe Mantegna, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Tino Insana, Kai Wulff, Norbert Weisser, Brian Thompson, Randy Newman, Rebecca Underwood, Loyda Ramos, Phillip Gordon	Comedy, Western	Live action
	14	A Smoky Mountain Christmas	ABC / Sandollar Productions	Henry Winkler (director); William Bleich, Dolly Parton (screenplay); Dolly Parton, Lee Majors, Dan Hedaya, Anita Morris, Bo Hopkins, John Ritter, Rance Howard, René Auberjonois, Jean Speegle Howard, Danny Cooksey, Ashley Bank, Gennie James, Linda Hoy, Douglas Seale, David Ackroyd, Carl Franklin, Debra Christofferson, Chad Sheets, Daryl Bartley, Marc D. Robinson, Micah Rowe, Jeanne Hepple, Claude Earl Jones, Chris Nash, Clint Parton, Bryan Seaver	Musical, Fantasy	Live action
	19	Babes in Toyland	NBC / MGM Television / Sony Pictures Television	Clive Donner (director); Glen MacDonough, Paul Zindel (screenplay); Drew Barrymore, Richard Mulligan, Eileen Brennan, Keanu Reeves, Jill Schoelen, Pat Morita, Rolf Knie, Googy Gress, Walter Buschhoff, Shari Weiser, Gaston Haeni, Pipo Sosman, Chad Carlson, Jean Moake, Bill Marcus	Musical, Adventure, Family, Fantasy	Live action
		King Kong Lives	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	John Guillermin (director); Ronald Shusett, Steven Pressfield (screenplay); Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Michael Forest, Leon Rippy, Herschel Sparber, Peter Elliott, George Yiasoumi, Benjamin Kechley, Frank Maraden, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Wallace Merck, Dean Whitworth, Robin Cahall, Matt Totty	Monster	Live action
		Lady and the Tramp (re-issue)	Walt Disney Pictures	Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (director); Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi (screenplay); Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Dallas McKennon, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, Peggy Lee, George Givot, Lee Millar, Stan Freberg, Alan Reed, Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Max Smith, Bob Hamlin, Bob Stevens	Musical, Romance	Animation
		Little Shop of Horrors	Warner Bros. Pictures / The Geffen Film Company	Frank Oz (director); Howard Ashman (screenplay); Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, Levi Stubbs, Miriam Margoyles, Stanley Jones, Mak Wilson, Danny John-Jules, Heather Henson, Vincent Wong, Kerry Shale, Anthony Asbury, Brian Henson, Mak Wilson, David Barclay, Marcus Clarke, Toby Philpott, Don Austen, William Todd-Jones, Michael Quinn, James Barton, Ronnie Le Drew, Danny Cunningham, Gary Palmer, Paul Swaby, Robert Tygner, Sue Dacre, Paul Springer, David Greenaway, Michael Bayliss, Michael Barclay, Chris Leith, Terry Lee, Ian Tregonning, John Alexander, James Barton, Graham Fletcher	Musical, Horror, Black Comedy	Live action / Puppetry
		No Mercy	TriStar Pictures	Richard Pearce (director); Jim Carabatsos (screenplay); Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza, Gary Basaraba, William Atherton, Terry Kinney, Ely Pouget, Bruce McGill, Ray Sharkey, Marita Geraghty, Aleta Mitchell, Fred Gratton, Dionisio, Kim Chan, George Dickerson	Crime	Live action
		Platoon	Orion Pictures / Hemdale Film Corporation	Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, Mark Moses, Francesco Quinn, Forest Whitaker, Tony Todd, Richard Edson, Johnny Depp, Corey Glover, Chris Pedersen, Dale Dye, Reggie Johnson, Corkey Ford, David Neidorf, Paul Sanchez, Bob Orwig	War	Live action
	25	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Universal Pictures / Rastar	Gene Saks (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey, Jonathan Silverman, Stacey Glick, Lisa Waltz, Brian Drillinger	Comedy	Live action
		The Morning After	20th Century Fox / Lorimar Film Entertainment	Sidney Lumet (director); James Hicks, David Rayfiel (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia, Diane Salinger, Richard Foronjy, Bruce Vilanch, Geoffrey Scott, Kathleen Wilhoite, Corey Everson, Kathy Bates, Frances Bergen, James Haake, Don Hood	Mystery	Live action
	31	My Letter to George	RKO Pictures	Michael Laughlin (director/screenplay); Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Dan Shor, Harry Andrews, Philip Holder, Beryl Te Wiata, Reg Evans, Jonathan Hardy, Don Selwyn, Derek Hardwick, Jonathan Elsom, George Spoors, Bob Gould, Norman Fairley	Drama	Live action
		Wisdom	20th Century Fox / Cannon Films	Emilio Estevez (director/screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, William Allen Young, Ernie Lively, Charlie Sheen, Richard Minchenberg, Brenda Medcalf	Romance, Crime	Live action
		Witchboard	Cinema Group	Kevin Tenney (director/screenplay); Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Kathleen Wilhoite, Burke Byrnes, James W. Quinn, Rose Marie	Horror, Thriller	Live action

Notable films released in 1986

United States unless stated

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• 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

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• 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 - (U.K.)
• The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood - (Canada)
• The Adventures of Milo and Otis (Koneko monogatari) - (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, and 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 with the voices of Phillip Glasser and Dom DeLuise
• 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 and Lee Van Cleef
• Armour of God (Long xiong hu di), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary
• The Assault (De aanslag) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award - (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

B

• BabaKiueria - (Australia)
• Back to School, 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 and Kurt Russell
• A Better Tomorrow (Jing hung bun sik), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• Betty Blue (37°2 le matin), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Béatrice Dalle - Golden Needle award for 1992 - (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 and 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 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)

C

• 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.)
• 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, starring John Cleese - (U.K.)
• Club Paradise, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy
• Cobra, 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)

D

• 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 and 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
• 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)

E

• 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

• 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 and Geena Davis
• 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)

G

• 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, starring the voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Eve Brenner, Diana Chesney, Frank Welker, Alan Young, directed by John Musker, Ron Clements, David Michener, Burny Mattinson
• A Great Wall - (United States/China)
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer - Golden Lion award - (France)
• Gung Ho!, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton

H

• Half Moon Street, starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine - (UK / US)
• Hamburger: The Motion Picture, starring Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Charles Tyner, Randi Brooks
• Hannah and Her Sisters, directed by and 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 and Jack Nicholson
• 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 and 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)
• Hot Money, directed by Zale Magder, starring Michael Murphy and Orson Welles
• 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

I

• Invaders from Mars, directed by Tobe Hooper
• Iron Eagle, starring Louis Gossett Jr. and Jason Gedrick

J

• 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

K

• 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

L

• Labyrinth, directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly - (UK / US)
• Lady Jane, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, Patrick Stewart - (U.K.)
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) - (Japan)
• Legal Eagles, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah
• Let's Get Harry, starring Robert Duvall
• Link, starring Terence Stamp and Elisabeth Shue - (UK)
• Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin and the voice of Levi Stubbs
• Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar) - (Brazil)
• Loyalties, directed by Anne Wheeler, starring Kenneth Welsh, and Susan Wooldridge (Canada/U.K.)
• Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder
• Luxo Jr.

M

• 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 and Brian Cox (as Hannibal Lecter)
• 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, featuring a soundtrack by AC/DC
• Meatballs III: Summer Job, directed by George Mendeluk, starring Sally Kellerman, Patrick Dempsey, and 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 - Palme d'Or award - (U.K.)
• Modern Girls, starring Virginia Madsen
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine - (U.K.)
• 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 and 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 and 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

N

• Naam (Name), starring Nutan and Sanjay Dutt - (India)
• The Name of the Rose, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater - (West Germany/Italy/France)
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and 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

O

• Off Beat, starring Judge Reinhold
• Old Well (Lao jing) - (China)
• One Crazy Summer, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait
• One More Saturday Night, starring Al Franken
• On the Edge, starring Bruce Dern and Pam Grier
• Otello, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Plácido Domingo - (Italy)
• Out of Bounds, starring Anthony Michael Hall and Jenny Wright

P

• 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 and Nicolas Cage
• 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 Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• 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

Q

• Quicksilver, starring Kevin Bacon
• Quiet Cool, starring James Remar

R

• Rad, directed by Hal Needham
• 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, 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 and Billy Crystal
• Ruthless People, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bill Pullman

S

• The Sacrifice (Offret), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (Sweden/U.K./France)
• Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone, starring James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy
• 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 and Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb - (U.K.)
• 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) - Golden Bear award - (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 and 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

T

• 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, starring Dennis Hopper
• That's Life!, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon and 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, 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

U

• Under the Cherry Moon, directed by and starring Prince, with Jerome Benton and Kristin Scott Thomas

V

• 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 and Kevin Kline
• Voyage to Nowhere (El viaje a ninguna parte) - (Spain)

W

• 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

• X: The Unheard Music

Y

• The Year of Enlightenment (El Año de las Luces) - (Spain)
• Youngblood, starring Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Gibb

Births

• January 4 - Charlyne Yi, American actor, comedian, musician and writer
• January 5 - Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• January 16 - Mason Gamble, American former actor
• January 21
  • Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (d. 2020)
  • Ken Yamamura, Japanese actor
• January 24
  • Mischa Barton, English-American actress
  • Raviv Ullman, Israeli actor
• January 30 - Ashley Buccille, American actress
• February 1 - Lauren Conrad, American TV personality and author
• February 2 - Gemma Arterton, English actress
• February 6 - Dane DeHaan, American actor
• February 9 - Jade Xu, actress
• February 12 - Valorie Curry, American actress
• February 14 - Tiffany Thornton, American actress, comedian, and singer-songwriter
• February 18 - Sakura Ando, Japanese actress
• February 19
  • Ophelia Lovibond, English actress
  • Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
• February 22 - Josh Helman, Australian actor
• February 24 - Bryce Papenbrook, American voice actor
• February 25
  • Jameela Jamil, English actress
  • James and Oliver Phelps, English twin actors
• February 26 - Teresa Palmer. Australian actress, writer, model and film producer
• March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor and dancer.
• March 15 - Jai Courtney, Australian actor
• March 16 - Alexandra Daddario, American actress
• March 17 - Olesya Rulin, Russian-American actress
• March 20 - Ruby Rose, Australian actress
• March 21 - Scott Eastwood, American actor and model
• March 22 - Matt Bush, American actor
• March 28 - Lady Gaga, American singer and actress
• March 30 - Simon Baker, Aboriginal-Canadian actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• April 9 - Leighton Meester, American actress and singer
• April 12 - Titanilla Bogdányi, Hungarian voice actress
• April 15 - Ester Dean, American singer-songwriter and actress
• April 17 - Zheng Kai, Chinese actor and television personality
• April 19 - Henrik Kalmet, Estonian actor
• April 22 - Amber Heard, American actress
• April 23 - Alisha Morrison, Canadian actress
• April 24 - Tahyna MacManus, Australian actress, director, writer and producer
• April 25
  • John DeLuca, American actor and singer
  • Daniel Sharman, English actor
• April 27 - Jenna Coleman, English actress
• April 30 - Dianna Agron, American actress, singer and director
• May 3 - Pom Klementieff, French actress and model
• May 6 - Sasheer Zamata, American actress and comedienne
• May 7 - Robbie Jarvis, British actor
• May 11 - Tia Ballard, American voice actress
• May 12 - Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• May 13
  • Lena Dunham, American writer, director, actress, and producer
  • Robert Pattinson, English actor
• May 16 - Megan Fox, American actress and model
• May 17 - Tahj Mowry, American actor
• May 19 - Eric Lloyd, American actor, comedian, musician and producer
• May 21
  • David Ajala, British actor
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph, American actress and singer
• May 23 - Ryan Coogler, American filmmaker
• May 28 - Joseph Cross (actor), American actor and producer
• May 30 - Will Peltz, American actor
• June 1 - Alessio Puccio, Italian voice actor
• June 3 - Brenden Jefferson, American child actor and songwriter
• June 4 - Oona Chaplin, Spanish-British actress
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker
• June 12 - Luke Youngblood, English actor
• June 13
  • Kat Dennings, American actress
  • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American twin actresses and entrepreneurs
• June 14 - Haley Hudson, American actress
• June 17 - Marie Avgeropoulos, Canadian actress and model
• June 18 - Richard Madden, Scottish actor
• June 19 - Nazareno Casero, Argentinian actor
• June 20 - Dreama Walker, American retired actress
• June 26 - Brittney Karbowski, American voice actress
• June 27
  • Drake Bell, American actor, comedian, musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Sam Claflin, British actor
• July 1 - Sonoya Mizuno, British actress
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur
• July 8 - Jake McDorman, American actor
• July 10 - Wyatt Russell, American actor
• July 15 - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor
• July 17 - Brando Eaton, American actor
• July 26 - Saphira Indah, Indonesian actress (d. 2019)
• July 27 - Felecia Angelle, American voice actress
• August 6 - Nanna Blondell, Swedish actress
• August 13 - Ashley Spillers, American actress
• August 14 - Casey LaBow, American actress and producer
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor and singer
• August 22 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
• August 27 - Jack Kesy, American actor
• August 28 - Armie Hammer, American actor
• August 29 - Lea Michele, American actress and singer
• August 31 - Ryan Kelley, American actor
• September 12
  • Alfie Allen, English actor
  • Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• September 14 - A. J. Trauth, American actor and musician
• September 16
  • Kyla Pratt, American actress
  • Michael James Shaw, American actor and writer
• September 17 - Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Japanese voice actor
• September 19
  • Carrie Finlay, Canadian actress
  • Peter Vack, American actor, writer, director and producer
• September 20 - Aldis Hodge, American actor
• September 23
  • Kaylee DeFer, American former actress
  • Jana Pérez, Spanish actress and model
• September 30 - Ki Hong Lee, Korean-American actor
• October 1
  • Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer (d. 2021)
  • Jurnee Smollett, American actress
• October 2 - Camilla Belle, American actress, director, and producer
• October 3 - Joonas Suotamo, Finnish actor
• October 5 - Kevin Bigley, American actor
• October 6 - Luisa D'Oliveira, Canadian actress
• October 12 - Rafal Zawierucha, Polish actor
• October 13 - Tom Attenborough, English voice actor
• October 15 - Ali Fazal, Indian actor
• October 22 - Kyle Gallner, American actor
• October 23 - Emilia Clarke, British actress
• October 24
  • Drake, Canadian rapper, singer, and actor
  • Nobuhiko Okamoto, Japanese voice actor and singer
• October 28 - Aditi Rao Hydari, Indian actress
• November 1 - Penn Badgley, American actor
• November 4 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and philanthropist
• November 10 - Josh Peck, American actor
• November 14 - Cory Michael Smith, American actor
• November 15 - Winston Duke, Tobagonian actor
• November 18
  • Pablo Lyle, Mexican actor
  • Ragne Veensalu, Estonian actress
• November 25 - Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
• November 26 - Trevor Morgan (actor), American actor
• November 28 - Johnny Simmons, American actor
• December 17 - Emma Bell, American actress
• December 26 - Kit Harington, English actor
• December 30 - Ellie Goulding, English singer and songwriter
• December 31 - Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	4	Una Merkel	82	US	Actress	The Parent Trap 42nd Street
	14	Donna Reed	64	US	Actress	It's a Wonderful Life From Here To Eternity
	24	Gordon MacRae	64	US	Actor, Singer	Oklahoma! Carousel
	27	Lilli Palmer	78	Germany	Actress	Body and Soul The Boys from Brazil
	29	Leif Erickson	74	US	Actor	Tea and Sympathy Kiss Them for Me
February	2	Donald Eccles	77	UK	Actor	The Wicker Man Young Sherlock Holmes
	6	Dandy Nichols	78	UK	Actress	Help! The Vikings
	10	Brian Aherne	83	UK	Actor	Juarez A Night to Remember
	16	Howard Da Silva	82	US	Actor, Producer	1776 The Lost Weekend
	17	Paul Stewart	77	US	Actor, Producer	Citizen Kane In Cold Blood
	19	Adolfo Celi	63	Italy	Actor	Thunderball Danger: Diabolik
	22	Bill Hickman	65	US	Stuntman, Actor	The French Connection Patton
	23	Nino Taranto	78	Italy	Actor	Husbands in the City The Monk of Monza
	25	Pasquale Festa Campanile	58	Italy	Director, Writer	Petomaniac The Leopard
	27	Eugene Forde	87	US	Director	Charlie Chan in London Dressed to Kill
March	3	Peter Capell	73	Germany	Actor, Writer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Paths of Glory
	6	Adolph Caesar	52	US	Actor	A Soldier's Story The Color Purple
	10	Ray Milland	77	US	Actor, Director	Dial M for Murder The Lost Weekend
	14	Edith Atwater	74	US	Actress	Sweet Smell of Success Strait-Jacket
	22	Olive Deering	67	US	Actress	The Ten Commandments Samson and Delilah
	22	Derek Farr	74	UK	Actor	The Dam Busters The Projected Man
	22	Charles Starrett	82	US	Actor	The Durango Kid Gallant Defender
	25	Gloria Blondell	75	US	Actress	Accidents Will Happen Daredevil Drivers
	28	Virginia Gilmore	66	US	Actress	Western Union That Other Woman
	29	Harry Ritz	86	US	Comedian, Actor	The Three Musketeers Silent Movie
	30	James Cagney	86	US	Actor, Producer	White Heat Yankee Doodle Dandy
	31	Jerry Paris	60	US	Actor, Director	Marty The Caine Mutiny
April	3	Mary C. McCall Jr.	81	US	Screenwriter	The Fighting Sullivans Maisie
	7	Chester Erskine	77	US	Director	A Girl in Every Port The Egg and I
	13	Stephen Stucker	38	US	Actor	Airplane! Trading Places
	15	Tim McIntire	41	US	Actor	Brubaker The Choirboys
	20	Max Benedict	66	Austria	Editor	Whistle Down the Wind The Blue Max
	21	Marjorie Eaton	85	US	Actress	Mary Poppins Harold and Maude
	23	Otto Preminger	80	US	Director, Actor, Producer	Anatomy of a Murder Laura
	26	Broderick Crawford	74	US	Actor, Producer	All the King's Men Born Yesterday
	26	Bessie Love	87	UK	Actress	The Broadway Melody The Lost World
	30	Robert Stevenson	81	US	Director	Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
May	1	Hylda Baker	81	UK	Actress	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Oliver!
	3	Robert Alda	72	US	Actor	Rhapsody in Blue Imitation of Life
	9	Herschel Bernardi	62	US	Actor	The Front Irma la Douce
	12	Elisabeth Bergner	88	Ukraine	Actress	Escape Me Never Paris Calling
	22	Martin Gabel	73	US	Actor	The Front Page Marnie
	23	Sterling Hayden	70	US	Actor	The Godfather Dr. Strangelove
	24	Yakima Canutt	90	US	Actor, Stuntman, Director	Stagecoach Ben-Hur
	26	Gunnar Björnstrand	74	Sweden	Actor	The Seventh Seal Fanny and Alexander
	28	Lurene Tuttle	78	US	Actress	Don't Bother to Knock Psycho
	31	Sylvia Coleridge	76	UK	Actress	Tess I Met a Murderer
June	3	Anna Neagle	81	UK	Actress	Forever and a Day No, No, Nanette
	11	Reed De Rouen	69	UK	Actor	The Third Man Billion Dollar Brain
	13	Benny Goodman	77	US	Musician	A Song Is Born The Benny Goodman Story
	14	Alan Jay Lerner	67	US	Screenwriter, Lyricist	An American in Paris My Fair Lady
	20	Julie Duncan	67	US	Actress	Desperate Cargo Wyoming Wildcat
	23	Nigel Stock	66	UK	Actor	The Great Escape The Lion in Winter
	30	Margalo Gillmore	89	UK	Actress	Perfect Strangers Cause for Alarm!
July	3	Rudy Vallee	84	US	Actor, Singer	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Unfaithfully Yours
	10	Jody Lawrance	55	US	Actress	Mask of the Avenger Ten Tall Men
	15	Benny Rubin	87	US	Actor	Sunny Skies Hot Curves
	18	Buddy Baer	71	US	Actor	Quo Vadis The Big Sky
	19	Daniel L. Fapp	82	US	Cinematographer	The Great Escape West Side Story
	19	Harold D. Schuster	83	US	Film Editor, Director	Wings of the Morning Loophole
	25	Vincente Minnelli	83	US	Director	An American in Paris Gigi
	28	John Alcott	55	UK	Cinematographer	Barry Lyndon A Clockwork Orange
August	6	Emilio Fernández	82	Mexico	Actor, Director	María Candelaria The Wild Bunch
	10	Jacqueline Gadsden	86	US	Actress	Mysterious Island The Thirteenth Hour
	13	Helen Mack	72	US	Actress	The Son of Kong His Girl Friday
	19	Hermione Baddeley	79	US	Actress	Mary Poppins The Aristocats
	20	Walter Brooke	71	US	Actor	Lawman The Graduate
	26	Ted Knight	62	US	Actor	Caddyshack Countdown
September	1	Murray Hamilton	63	US	Actor	Jaws The Graduate
	6	Blanche Sweet	90	US	Actress	Anna Christie The Sporting Venus
	15	Virginia Gregg	70	US	Actress	Operation Petticoat Spencer's Mountain
	26	Brian Desmond Hurst	91	Ireland	Director	Dangerous Moonlight Scrooge
	28	Denis Carey	77	UK	Actor	Psychomania The Day of the Jackal
	28	Robert Helpmann	77	Australia	Actor, Director	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Red Shoes
October	5	Hal B. Wallis	88	US	Producer	Casablanca Becket
	14	Yvette Dugay	54	US	Actress	Francis Covers the Big Town Hiawatha
	14	Keenan Wynn	70	US	Actor	Dr. Strangelove Nashville
	14	Spec O'Donnell	75	US	Actor	Here's Flash Casey Blonde Trouble
	17	Leah Rhodes	84	US	Costume Designer	The Big Sleep Strangers on a Train
	25	Forrest Tucker	67	US	Actor	Sands of Iwo Jima The Yearling
	28	Ian Marter	42	UK	Actor	The Medusa Touch The Abominable Dr. Phibes
	31	Marcella Martin	70	US	Actress	The Man Who Returned to Life West of Tombstone
November	2	Harry Brown	69	US	Screenwriter	A Place in the Sun Ocean's 11
	8	Beatrice Kay	79	US	Singer, Actress	Diamond Horseshoe Underworld U.S.A.
	11	Roger C. Carmel	54	US	Actor	Gambit Breezy
	21	Jerry Colonna	82	US	Actor	Alice in Wonderland Road to Singapore
	21	Dar Robinson	39	US	Stuntman, Actor	Airplane! Papillon
	22	Scatman Crothers	76	US	Actor	The Shining Twilight Zone: The Movie
	27	Robert Priestley	85	US	Set Decorator	Picnic Sayonara
	29	Herb Vigran	76	US	Actor	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Love Bug
	29	Cary Grant	82	US	Actor	North by Northwest To Catch a Thief
December	2	Ken Scott	58	UK	Actor	Fantastic Voyage The Three Faces of Eve
	2	Desi Arnaz	69	US	Actor, Singer	The Long, Long Trailer Holiday in Havana
	10	Susan Cabot	59	US	Actress	Gunsmoke Tomahawk
	11	Carlos Ramirez	70	US	Actor, Singer	Anchors Aweigh Night and Day
	13	Heather Angel	77	UK	Actress, Voice Actress	Alice in Wonderland Suspicion
	18	Mamo Clark	72	US	Actress	Mutiny on the Bounty Hawaii Calls
	18	Winifred Deforest Coffin	75	US	Actress	The Million Dollar Duck Now You See Him, Now You Don't
	22	Harvey Stephens	85	US	Actor	Sergeant York North by Northwest
	23	Gerhard Bienert	88	Germany	Actor, Writer	The Blue Angel The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
	26	Elsa Lanchester	84	UK	Actress	Bride of Frankenstein Mary Poppins
	28	Andrei Tarkovsky	54	USSR	Director, Writer	Solaris Andrei Rublev

Film debuts

• Angela Bassett - F/X
• Sean Bean - Caravaggio
• Ewen Bremner - Heavenly Pursuits
• Tia Carrere - Zombie Nightmare
• Dan Castellaneta - Nothing in Common
• Kim Coates - The Boy in Blue
• Dave Foley - High Stakes
• Tony Goldwyn - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Caroline Goodall - Every Time We Say Goodbye
• Tim Guinee - Tai-Pan
• Woody Harrelson - Wildcats
• Catherine Keener - About Last Night
• Richard Kind - Nothing in Common
• Olek Krupa - 91/2 Weeks
• James LeGros - The Ladies Club
• Ted Levine - One More Saturday Night
• Jennifer Lopez - My Little Girl
• Natasha Lyonne - Heartburn
• Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
• John C. McGinley - Sweet Liberty
• Janet McTeer - Half Moon Street
• Ben Mendelsohn - The Still Point
• Jerry O'Connell - Stand by Me
• Miranda Otto - Emma's War
• Adrian Pasdar - Top Gun
• Jason Patric - Solarbabies
• Vincent Perez - Gardien de la nuit
• Elizabeth Perkins - About Last Night
• Max Perlich - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Joaquin Phoenix - SpaceCamp
• Wendell Pierce - The Money Pit
• Jeremy Piven - Lucas
• Bill Pullman - Ruthless People
• Ving Rhames - Native Son
• Michael Rooker - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Winona Ryder - Lucas
• Jon Lovitz - Hamburger: The Motion Picture
• Kristin Scott Thomas - Under the Cherry Moon
• Tony Shalhoub - Heartburn
• Ione Skye - River's Edge
• Jimmy Smits - Running Scared
• Wesley Snipes - Wildcats
• Kevin Spacey - Heartburn
• Imelda Staunton - Comrades
• Kristy Swanson - Pretty in Pink
• D.B. Sweeney - Power
• Tilda Swinton - Caravaggio
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Armed Response
• Billy Bob Thornton - Hunter's Blood
• Sean Hayes - Lucas
• Tony Todd – Sleepwalk
• Paul Walker - Monster in the Closet
• Naomi Watts - For Love Alone
• Bradley Whitford - Doorman
• Robin Wright - Hollywood Vice Squad
• Kari Wuhrer - Fire with Fire

See also

•  1980s portal
•  Film portal

• List of American films of 1986
• List of British films of 1986
• List of French films of 1986
• List of German films of the 1980s
• List of Bollywood films of 1986
• List of Italian films of 1986
• List of Japanese films of 1986
• List of Swedish films of the 1980s

References

1. "Domestic Box Office For 1986". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 December 2019.