Movies released in 1986| 3:15 the Moment of Truth | Larry Gross |
| 52 Pick-Up | John Frankenheimer |
| 8 Million Ways to Die | Hal Ashby |
| Abomination, The | Bret McCormick |
| Abracadabra | Peter Mak Tai-kit |
| Absolute Beginners | Julien Temple |
| Adventures of Milo and Otis, The | Masanori Hata |
| Alien Predators | Deran Sarafian |
| Alien Warrior | Ed Hunt |
| Aliens | James Cameron |
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Gary Nelson |
| Alone in the T-Shirt Zone | Mike B. Anderson |
| America 3000 | David Engelbach |
| American Anthem | Albert Magnoli |
| American Tail, An | Don Bluth |
| April Fool's Day | Fred Walton |
| Armed and Dangerous | Mark L. Lester |
| Armed Response | Fred Olen Ray |
| Armour of God | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang |
| Aurora Encounter, The | Jim McCullough Sr. |
| Babes in Toyland | Clive Donner |
| Back to School | Alan Metter |
| Barefoot Gen 2 | Toshio Hirata |
| Battle for the Lost Planet | Brett Piper |
| Better Tomorrow, A | John Woo |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| Beverly Hills Madam | Harvey Hart |
| Big Easy, The | Jim McBride |
| Big Trouble | John Cassavetes |
| Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter |
| Biotherapy | Akihiro Kashima |
| Black Moon Rising | Harley Cokeliss |
| Blood Hunt | Javier Elorrieta |
| Blue City | Michelle Manning |
| Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-I Eiji 1996 | Ryôsuke Takahashi |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch |
| Body Count | Ruggero Deodato |
| Body Slam | Hal Needham |
| Boy Who Could Fly, The | Nick Castle |
| Boys Next Door, The | Penelope Spheeris |
| Breeders | Tim Kincaid |
| Bridge to Hell | Umberto Lenzi |
| C.A.T. Squad | William Friedkin |
| Captain EO | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Children of a Lesser God | Randa Haines |
| Chopping Mall | Jim Wynorski |
| Christmas Toy, The | Eric Till |
| Clan of the Cave Bear, The | Michael Chapman |
| Class of Nuke 'Em High | Lloyd Kaufman, Richard W. Haines |
| Clockwise | Christopher Morahan |
| Cobra | George P. Cosmatos |
| Cobra Mission | Fabrizio De Angelis |
| Color of Money, The | Martin Scorsese |
| Combat Shock | Buddy Giovinazzo |
| Commando Fury | Chester Wong Chung Gwong |
| Condor | Virgil W. Vogel |
| Crawlspace | David Schmoeller |
| Critters | Stephen Herek |
| Crocodile Dundee | Peter Faiman |
| Crossroads | Walter Hill |
| Crystal Heart | Gil Bettman |
| Dangerously Close | Albert Pyun |
| Dead End Drive-In | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Deadly Friend | Wes Craven |
| Deadtime Stories | Jeffrey Delman |
| Delta Force, The | Menahem Golan |
| Demons 2 | Lamberto Bava |
| Devil Story | Bernard Launois |
| Dolls | Stuart Gordon |
| Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Paul Mazursky |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Warwick Gilbert |
| Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies | Daisuke Nishio |
| Dream Lover | Alan J. Pakula |
| Dreamaniac | David DeCoteau |
| Eliminators | Peter Manoogian |
| Evil Laugh | Dominick Brascia |
| Eye of the Tiger | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Fair Game | Mario Andreacchio |
| Female Executioner, The | Michel Caputo |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | John Hughes |
| Final Score | Arizal |
| Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser |
| Fly, The | David Cronenberg |
| Forgotten Warrior | Nick Cacas, Charlie Ordoñez |
| Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives | Tom McLoughlin |
| Frog Dreaming | Brian Trenchard-Smith, Russell Hagg |
| From Beyond | Stuart Gordon |
| Future Hunters | Cirio H. Santiago |
| Gall Force: Eternal Story | Katsuhito Akiyama |
| Ghost Warrior | J. Larry Carroll |
| Girls School Screamers | John P. Finnegan |
| Golden Ninja Warrior | Godfrey Ho, Joseph Lai |
| Gore-met, Zombie Chef from Hell | Don Swan |
| Gothic | Ken Russell |
| Great Mouse Detective, The | Ron Clements, John Musker, Burny Mattinson, David Michener |
| Guinea Pig Part 4: Devil Doctor Woman | Hajime Tabe |
| Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God - Part I | Kazuo Komizu |
| Hamburger: The Motion Picture | Mike Marvin |
| Hands of Steel | Sergio Martino |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen |
| Happy New Year, Charlie Brown | Bill Melendez, Sam Jaimes |
| Hardbodies 2 | Mark Griffiths |
| Hear 'n Aid Sessions, The | |
| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | John McNaughton |
| Heroes Shed No Tears | John Woo |
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy |
| His Motorbike, Her Island | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Hitcher, The | Robert Harmon |
| Hong Kil-dong | Kim Kil-In |
| Hoosiers | David Anspaugh |
| Howard the Duck | Willard Huyck |
| Hunter's Blood | Robert C. Hughes |
| I Like Bats | Grzegorz Warchoł |
| In a Glass Cage | Agustí Villaronga |
| Inhumanoids: The Movie | Ray Lee |
| Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper |
| Iron Eagle | Sidney J. Furie |
| Judgment in Stone, A | Ousama Rawi |
| Karate Kid Part II, The | John G. Avildsen |
| Killer Is Still Among Us, The | Camillo Teti |
| Killer Party | William Fruet |
| King Kong Lives | John Guillermin |
| Knights of the City | Dominic Orlando |
| Kung Fu Wonder Child | Lee Tso-Nam |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson |
| Ladies Club, The | Janet Greek |
| Land of Doom | Peter Maris |
| Last Resort | Zane Buzby |
| Let's Get Harry | Stuart Rosenberg, Alan Smithee |
| Link | Richard Franklin |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz |
| Lone Runner, The | Ruggero Deodato |
| Lucky Seven | Chen-kuo Chao |
| M.D. Geist | Koichi Ohata, Hayato Ikeda |
| Magdalena Viraga | Nina Menkes |
| Magic Crystal | Wong Jing |
| Majorettes, The | S. William Hinzman |
| Making of "Tampopo", The | Toshiro Uratani |
| Manhunter | Michael Mann |
| Mark of the Beast | Robert Stewart |
| Martial Arts of Shaolin | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Mauvais Sang | Leos Carax |
| Max My Love | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King |
| Mayhem | Joseph Merhi |
| Megazone 23 II | Yasuo Hasegawa, Katsuhisa Yamada, Ichiro Itano |
| Melody of Passion | Hubert Frank |
| Millionaires' Express | Sammo Hung |
| Modern Girls | Jerry Kramer |
| Money Pit, The | Richard Benjamin |
| Monster Heaven | Makoto Tezuka |
| Monster in the Closet | Bob Dahlin |
| Mr. Vampire II | Ricky Lau |
| Murderous Intent | Len Anthony |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue, The | Jeannot Szwarc |
| Mutilations | Lawrence Thomas |
| My Chauffeur | David Beaird |
| Necropolis | Bruce Hickey |
| Neon Maniacs | Joseph Mangine |
| Never Too Young to Die | Gil Bettman |
| New Morning of Billy the Kid, The | Naoto Yamakawa |
| Night of the Creeps | Fred Dekker |
| Night Ripper | Jeff Hathcock |
| Nightmare Weekend | Henri Sala |
| Ninja: The Final Duel | Robert Tai |
| No Retreat, No Surrender | Corey Yuen |
| Nomads | John McTiernan |
| Omega Syndrome | Joseph Manduke |
| One Crazy Summer | Savage Steve Holland |
| Opposing Force | Eric Karson |
| Out of Bounds | Richard Tuggle |
| Outlanders | Katsuhisa Yamada |
| Ozzy Osbourne: The Ultimate Ozzy | Andrew Morahan |
| Park Is Mine, The | Steven Hilliard Stern |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Peking Opera Blues | Tsui Hark |
| Phantom of Regular Size, The | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Platoon | Oliver Stone |
| Playing for Keeps | Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein |
| Poison for the Fairies | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | Jerry Paris |
| Poltergeist II: The Other Side | Brian Gibson |
| Pretty in Pink | Howard Deutch |
| Project A-Ko | Katsuhiko Nishijima |
| Psycho Girls | Jerry Ciccoritti |
| Psycho III | Anthony Perkins |
| Quicksilver | Thomas Michael Donnelly |
| Rad | Hal Needham |
| Radioactive Dreams | Albert Pyun |
| Raiders of the Living Dead | Samuel M. Sherman |
| Raw Deal | John Irvin |
| Rawhead Rex | George Pavlou |
| Reform School Girls | Tom DeSimone |
| Revenge | Christopher Lewis |
| Revolt | Jamshid Sheibani |
| Righting Wrongs | Corey Yuen |
| River's Edge | Tim Hunter |
| Robot Holocaust | Tim Kincaid |
| Royal Warriors | David Chung |
| Running Scared | Peter Hyams |
| Satan's Bed | H. Tjut Djalil |
| Scorpion | William Riead |
| Seventh Curse, The | Lam Nai-Choi |
| Sexy Battle Girls | Mototsugu Watanabe |
| Short Circuit | John Badham |
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox |
| Slaughter High | Mark Ezra, George Dugdale, Peter Mackenzie Litten |
| Sleepwalk | Sara Driver |
| Solarbabies | Alan Johnson |
| Something Wild | Jonathan Demme |
| Sorority House Massacre | Carol Frank |
| SpaceCamp | Harry Winer |
| Spine | John Howard, Justin Simmonds |
| Spookies | Genie Joseph, Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner |
| Stabilizer, The | Arizal |
| Stand by Me | Rob Reiner |
| Star Crystal | Lance Lindsay |
| Star Slammer | Fred Olen Ray |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy |
| Static | Mark Romanek |
| Stewardess School | Ken Blancato |
| Strange Tales | Paul Bunnell, Robert Pike, Latt, David |
| Street of Crocodiles | Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay |
| Super Soap | Jingda Xu, Ma Kexuan |
| Terror at Tenkiller | Ken Meyer |
| TerrorVision | Ted Nicolaou |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The | Tobe Hooper |
| They Were Eleven | Tsuneo Tominaga, Satoshi Dezaki |
| Thrashin' | David Winters |
| To Sleep So as to Dream | Kaizô Hayashi |
| Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection | Koichi Kawakita |
| Tomb, The | Fred Olen Ray |
| Top Gun | Tony Scott |
| Transformers: The Movie, The | Nelson Shin |
| Trick or Treat | Charles Martin Smith |
| Troll | John Carl Buechler |
| True Colours | Kirk Wong |
| True Stories | David Byrne |
| Truth or Dare? - A Critical Madness | Tim Ritter |
| Twin Dragon Encounter | Paul Dunlop |
| Unmasking the Idol | Worth Keeter |
| Vamp | Richard Wenk |
| Vendetta | Bruce Logan |
| Wildcats | Michael Ritchie |
| Wind, The | Nico Mastorakis |
| Wise Guys | Brian De Palma |
| Witch from Nepal | Ching Siu-Tung |
| Witchboard | Kevin Tenney |
| Worst Witch, The | Robert Young |
| Wraith, The | Mike Marvin |
| Zombiethon | Ken Dixon |
| ¡Three Amigos! | John Landis |