Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium |
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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 | Romance, Drama | Live action |
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Tough Guys | Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners / Bryna Productions | Jeff Kanew (director); James Orr, James Cruikshank (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Dana Carvey, Darlanne Fluegel, Eli Wallach, Billy Barty | 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 | 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, Vyto Ruginis, Carol Kane, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Michael McKean | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Crime, Thriller | Live action |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, Chris Mulkey, Clayton Landey, Fran Ryan, Ted White | 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 | 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 | 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 | Drama | 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 | Musical, Adventure, Drama, Family | Animation |
Defense of the Realm | Hemdale Film Corporation | David Drury (director); Martin Stellman (screenplay); Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | War | Live action |
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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, Beeson Carroll, David Carpenter, Hurd Hatfield | 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, Marilyn Schreffler | Comedy, Fantasy | 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 | Comedy, Western | Live action |
19 | 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 | Monster | Live action |
Lady and the Tramp (re-issue) | Walt Disney Pictures | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (director);, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi (screenplay); Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Dallas McKennon, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, Peggy Lee | 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, Danny Cunningham, Gary Palmer, Paul Swaby, Heather Henson, Vincent Wong, Kerry Shale, Anthony Asbury, Brian Henson, Mak Wilson, Robert Tygner, Sue Dacre, David Barclay, Marcus Clarke, Paul Springer, David Greenaway, Toby Philpott, Michael Bayliss, Michael Barclay, Don Austen, Chris Leith, William Todd-Jones, Terry Lee, Ian Tregonning, John Alexander, Michael Quinn, 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 | Crime | Live action |
Platoon | Orion Pictures / Hemdale Film Corporation | Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, WillemDafoe, John C. McGinley, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, Mark Moses, Francesco Quinn, Forest Whitaker, Tony Todd, Richard Edson, Johnny Depp | War | Live action |
25 | 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 | Mystery | Live action |
31 | My Letter to George | RKO Pictures | Michael Laughlin (director/screenplay); Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy | 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 | Romance, Crime | Live action |
Witchboard | Cinema Group | Kevin Tenney (director/screenplay);, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Kathleen Wilhoite, Burke Byrnes, Rose Marie | Horror, Thriller | Live action |