Movies released in 1991| 35 Up | Michael Apted |
| 976-EVIL II | Jim Wynorski |
| Addams Family, The | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| All I Want for Christmas | Robert Lieberman |
| All-American Murder | Anson Williams |
| Alligator 2: The Mutation | Jon Hess |
| American Tail: Fievel Goes West, An | Simon Wells, Phil Nibbelink |
| Art of Dying, The | Wings Hauser |
| Atlantis | Luc Besson |
| Backdraft | Ron Howard |
| Barton Fink | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay | Kazuo Komizu |
| Beasties | Steven Paul Contreras |
| Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
| Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt |
| Black Cat | Stephen Shin |
| Blue Jean Monster, The | Ivan Lai |
| Borrower, The | John McNaughton |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton |
| Breathing Fire | Lou Kennedy, Brandon De-Wilde |
| Brighter Summer Day, A | Edward Yang |
| Cabeza de Vaca | Nicolás Echevarría |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese |
| Capital Punishment | David Huey |
| Career Opportunities | Bryan Gordon |
| Casino Raiders II | Johnnie To |
| Cast a Deadly Spell | Martin Campbell |
| Child's Play 3 | Jack Bender |
| Children of the Night | Tony Randel |
| City Slickers | Ron Underwood |
| Clearcut | Ryszard Bugajski |
| Commitments, The | Alan Parker |
| Cool as Ice | David Kellogg |
| Craving Passion | Andrey Kharitonov |
| Crawlers, The | Fabrizio Laurenti |
| Critters 3 | Kristine Peterson |
| Curse III: Blood Sacrifice | Sean Barton |
| Cybernator | Robert Rundle |
| Dark Backward, The | Adam Rifkin |
| Dark Cat | Iku Suzuki |
| Dead Space | Fred Gallo |
| Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans | Howard R. Cohen |
| Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks |
| Delicatessen | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro |
| Delusion | Carl Colpaert |
| Do or Die | Andy Sidaris |
| Doc Hollywood | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Dogfight | Nancy Savoca |
| Dollman | Albert Pyun |
| Dolly Dearest | Maria Lease |
| Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Stephen Herek |
| Double Impact | Sheldon Lettich |
| Dreaming the Reality | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| Driven to Kill | John Gazarian |
| Drop Dead Fred | Ate de Jong |
| Dutch | Peter Faiman |
| Earth Angel | Joe Napolitano |
| Ernest Scared Stupid | John R. Cherry III |
| Europa | Lars von Trier |
| Eve of Destruction | Duncan Gibbins |
| Father of the Bride | Charles Shyer |
| Fight Back to School | Gordon Chan |
| Fisher King, The | Terry Gilliam |
| Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | Rachel Talalay |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet |
| Gambling Ghost, The | Clifton Ko Chi-Sum |
| Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori |
| Guyver, The | Steve Wang, Screaming Mad George |
| Hard Way, The | John Badham |
| Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | Simon Wincer |
| Haunted, The | Robert Mandel |
| HauntedWeen | Doug Robertson |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola |
| Highlander II: The Quickening | Russell Mulcahy |
| Highway 61 | Bruce McDonald |
| Highway Patrolman | Alex Cox |
| Highway to Hell | Ate de Jong |
| Hiruko the Goblin | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead, The | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| Hook | Steven Spielberg |
| Hot Shots! | Jim Abrahams |
| Howling VI: The Freaks | Hope Perello |
| Hudson Hawk | Michael Lehmann |
| Inland Sea, The | Lucille Carra |
| Inner Sanctum | Fred Olen Ray |
| Into the Woods | James Lapine |
| Jungle Fever | Spike Lee |
| K2 | Franc Roddam |
| King Ralph | David S. Ward |
| Kingdom of the Vampire | J.R. Bookwalter |
| L.A. Story | Mick Jackson |
| Last Boy Scout, The | Tony Scott |
| Last Frankenstein, The | Takeshi Kawamura |
| Last Halloween, The | Savage Steve Holland |
| Life Stinks | Mel Brooks |
| Line of Fire | Bruce Cook |
| Lord of the Sky | Ludmila Zeman, Eugen Spaleny |
| Lovers on the Bridge, The | Leos Carax |
| Martial Law II: Undercover | Kurt Anderson |
| Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla | Tomo'o Haraguchi, Satoo Haraguchi |
| Mission: Killfast | Ted V. Mikels |
| Mom | Patrick Rand |
| Mortal Thoughts | Alan Rudolph |
| Motorama | Barry Shils |
| My Flying Wife | O Sing-Pui |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant |
| Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, The | David Zucker |
| Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg |
| Nekromantik 2 | Jörg Buttgereit |
| New Jack City | Mario Van Peebles |
| Night of the Kickfighters | Buddy Reyes |
| Not of This World | Jon Hess |
| Once a Thief | John Woo |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Tsui Hark |
| Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata |
| Operation Condor | Jackie Chan |
| Oscar | John Landis |
| Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
| People Under the Stairs, The | Wes Craven |
| Perfect Weapon, The | Mark DiSalle |
| Pit and the Pendulum, The | Stuart Gordon |
| Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Poison | Todd Haynes |
| Polar Bear King, The | Ola Solum |
| Popcorn | Mark Herrier |
| Prime Target | David Heavener |
| Problem Child 2 | Brian Levant |
| Psychic Wars | Tetsuo Imazawa, John Wolskel |
| Queen of Diamonds | Nina Menkes |
| Raid, The | Tsui Hark, Ching Siu-Tung |
| Rainbow Kids | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Raw Nerve | David A. Prior |
| Refrigerator, The | Nicholas Jacobs |
| Rest In Peace | Rachel Amodeo |
| Resurrected, The | Dan O'Bannon |
| Rhapsody in August | Akira Kurosawa |
| Ricochet | Russell Mulcahy |
| Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky | Lam Nai-Choi |
| Ring of Fire | Richard W. Munchkin, Rick Jacobson |
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Kevin Reynolds |
| Robotrix | Jamie Luk Kim-Ming |
| Rock-A-Doodle | Gary Goldman, Don Bluth |
| Rocketeer, The | Joe Johnston |
| Roujin Z | Hiroyuki Kitakubo |
| Royal Blue | |
| Run | Geoff Burrowes |
| Runestone, The | Willard Carroll |
| Rush | Lili Fini Zanuck |
| Samurai Cop | Amir Shervan |
| Scanners II: The New Order | Christian Duguay |
| Scary True Stories | Norio Tsuruta |
| Scene at the Sea, A | Takeshi Kitano |
| Scissors | Frank De Felitta |
| Secret Of Easter Island, The | Jeff Beachbum Berry |
| Sect, The | Michele Soavi |
| Shock 'Em Dead | Mark Freed |
| Showdown in Little Tokyo | Mark L. Lester |
| Silence of the Lambs, The | Jonathan Demme |
| Silent Möbius | Michitaka Kikuchi, Kazuo Tomizawa |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker | Martin Kitrosser |
| Skid Kid, The | Glen Gruner |
| Slacker | Richard Linklater |
| Sleeping with the Enemy | Joseph Ruben |
| Soapdish | Michael Hoffman |
| Sólo con tu pareja | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Soul of the Demon | Charles T. Lang |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer |
| Steel and Lace | Ernest D. Farino |
| Stone Cold | Craig R. Baxley |
| Strays | John McPherson |
| Subspecies | Ted Nicolaou |
| Taking of Beverly Hills, The | Sidney J. Furie |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | Michael Pressman |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron |
| Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott |
| There's Nothing Out There | Rolfe Kanefsky |
| Tiger Cage 3 | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Tiger Claws | Kelly Makin |
| Touch and Go | Ringo Lam |
| Toy Soldiers | Daniel Petrie Jr. |
| Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth | Charles Band |
| Unborn, The | Rodman Flender |
| Vacations of Terror 2 | |
| Vacations of Terror 2: Diabolical Birthday | Pedro Galindo III |
| Vacations of Terror 2: Diabolical Birthday | Pedro Galindo III |
| Voodoo Dolls | Andrée Pelletier |
| What About Bob? | Frank Oz |
| White Fang | Randal Kleiser |
| Whore | Ken Russell |
| Wish for Wings That Work, A | Skip Jones |
| Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death | Rachel Feldman |
| Wizardry | Shunya Fujioka |
| World Apartment Horror | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Year of the Gun | John Frankenheimer |
| Yumeji | Seijun Suzuki |
| Zëiram | Keita Amemiya |
| Zombie Army | Betty Stapleford |