| Year | Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 1980 |
The Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray | Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis |  | |
| Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban | | |
| Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy Murakami | George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Richard Thomas | | |
| Be Forever Yamato | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Kei Tomiyama, Yōko Asagami, Shūsei Nakamura |  | Anime film |
| Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé |   | |
| Crazy Thunder Road | Sōgo Ishii | Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Koji Nanjo | | |
| Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex | Masayuki Akehi | Kazuhiko Inoue, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Keiichi Noda | | Anime film |
| Death Watch | Bertrand Tavernier | Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton |  | |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | | [nb 1] |
| The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross | | |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow | | |
| Galaxina | William Sachs | Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton | | |
| Golem | Piotr Szulkin | Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Zólkowska |  | |
| Hangar 18 | James L. Conway | Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins | | |
| Phoenix 2772 | Taku Sugiyama | Kaneto Shiozawa, Keiko Takeshita, Hiroshi Ôtake | | Anime film |
| Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen | Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel |  | |
| Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer | | |
| Superman II | Richard Lester | Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty | | |
| Toward the Terra | Hideo Onchi | Junichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi | | Anime film |
| Virus | Kinji Fukasaku | Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi | | |
| 1981 |
Adieu Galaxy Express 999 | Rintaro | Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Kaneta Kimotsuki | | Anime film |
| Earthbound | James L. Conway | Burl Ives, Christopher Connelly, Meredith MacRae | | |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine | | |
| Galaxy of Terror | B. D. Clark | Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston | | |
| Heartbeeps | Allan Arkush | Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid | | |
| Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Eugene Levy |  | Animated film |
| The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher | Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, John Glover | | |
| Inseminoid | Norman J. Warren | Judy Geeson, Heather Wright, Trevor Thomas, Stephanie Beacham | | USA title: Horror Planet |
| The Last Chase | Martyn Burke | Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace | | |
| Looker | Michael Crichton | Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey | | |
| Mad Max 2 | George Miller | Mel Gibson |  | |
| Malevil | Christian de Chalonge | Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret | | |
| Memoirs of a Survivor | David Gladwell | Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger | | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam | Ryôji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shôzô Iizuka, Toshio Furukawa | | Anime film |
| Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Fuyumi Shiraishi | | Anime film |
| Mystery of the Third Planet | Roman Kachanov | Olga Gromova, Yuri Andreyev, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Vladimir Kenigson, Vasily Livanov, Rina Zelyonaya |  | Animated film |
| Outland | Peter Hyams | Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen | | |
| Per Aspera Ad Astra | Richard Viktorov | Aleksandr Mikhajlov, Gleb Strizhenov, Alexander Lazarev | | Alternate titles: Through the Thorns to the Stars; Humanoid Woman |
| Scanners | David Cronenberg | Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan | | |
| Scared to Death | William Malone | John Stinson | | |
| Visitors from the Galaxy | Dušan Vukotić | Ljubiša Samardžić, Ivana Andrlová, Cvijeta Mesic |   | [1] |
| The War of the Worlds: Next Century | Piotr Szulkin | Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski | | |
| 1982 |
1990: The Bronx Warriors | Enzo G. Castellari | Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williamson | | |
| The Aftermath | Steve Barkett | Sid Haig, Forrest J Ackerman, Jim Danforth | | UK title: Zombie Aftermath |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman | Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges | | |
| Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro | Joe D'Amato | Harrison Muller, Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani | | [2] |
| Android | Aaron Lipstadt | Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser | | [nb 2] |
| Andromeda Stories | Masamitsu Sasaki | Mami Koyama, Tōru Furuya, Toshiko Fujita, Chiyoko Kawashima | | Anime film |
| Arcadia of My Youth | Tomoharu Katsumata | Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama, Reiko Tajima, Reiko Mutō | | Anime film |
| Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah | | [nb 3] |
| Burst City | Sōgo Ishii | Michirou Endo, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Kou Machida | | |
| Café Flesh | Stephen Sayadian | Michelle Bauer, Richard Belzer | | |
| Cat People | Paul Schrader | Nastassja Kinski, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell | | |
| Chronopolis | Piotr Kamler | | | Animated film |
| Crosstalk | Mark Egerton | Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart | | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton | | [nb 4] |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley | | [3] |
| Forbidden World | Allan Holzman | Jesse Vint, June Chadwick | | |
| Kamikaze 1989 | Wolf Gremm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis | | [4] |
| The Masters of Time | René Laloux | Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros, Yves-Marie Maurin |   | Animated film |
| Megaforce | Hal Needham | Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Henry Silva | | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space | Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yô Inoue | | Anime film |
| The New Barbarians | Enzo G. Castellari | Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini | | [nb 5] |
| Nightbeast | Don Dohler | Donald Leifert, Tom Griffiths | | Horror |
| Parasite | Charles Band | Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore | | Horror |
| Queen Millennia | Masayuki Akehi | Keiko Han, Keiko Toda, Ichirô Nagai, Mami Koyama | | Anime film |
| Space Adventure Cobra | Osamu Dezaki | Shigeru Matsuzaki, Ryoko Sakakibara, Akiko Nakamura, Toshiko Fujita | | Anime film |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Ricardo Montalbán | | [nb 6] |
| Swamp Thing | Wes Craven, Walter von Huene | Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise | | |
| The Thing | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan, David Clennon | | [nb 7] |
| Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | William Dear | Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur, Ed Lauter, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Walter | | |
| Time Walker | Tom Kennedy | Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy | | |
| Tron | Steven Lisberger | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan | | [nb 8] |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig | | |
| Warlords of the 21st Century | Harley Cokliss | Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright | | [5][nb 9] |
| Zapped! | Robert J. Rosenthal | Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Heather Thomas, Robert Mandan | | |
| 1983 |
2019, After the Fall of New York | Sergio Martino | Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis | | |
| Anna to the Infinite Power | Robert Wiemer | Martha Byrne, Dina Merrill | | |
| The Atlantis Interceptors | Ruggero Deodato | Ivan Rassimov | | |
| Born in Flames | Lizzie Borden | Jeanne Satterfield, Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston | | |
| Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull | Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher | | |
| BrainWaves | Ulli Lommel | Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Tony Curtis | | [6] |
| The Creature Wasn't Nice | Bruce Kimmel | Leslie Nielsen, Cindy Williams, Gerrit Graham | | |
| Crusher Joe | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | | | Anime film |
| Daijōbu, My Friend | Ryū Murakami | Peter Fonda, Reona Hirota | | |
| The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen | | |
| The Deadly Spawn | Douglas McKeown | Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter | | |
| Endgame | Joe D'Amato | Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman | | |
| Escape from the Bronx | Enzo G. Castellari | Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici | | |
| Kometa | Richard Viktorov | Nadezhda Semencova, Anatolij Kuznecov | | Comedy |
| Final Yamato | Tomoharu Katsumata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Masuda | Kei Tomiyama, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya, Isao Sasaki | | Anime film |
| Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy | | |
| Harmagedon | Rintaro | Tôru Furuya, Mami Koyama, Masako Ikeda, Keiko Han | | Anime film |
| The Last Battle | Luc Besson | Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper | | |
| Liquid Sky | Slava Tsukerman | Anne Carlisle, Paula Sheppard, Susan Doukas | | |
| Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll | | |
| The Prize of Peril | Yves Boisset | Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier | | |
| Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | | [nb 10] |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | Paul Le Mat, Deborah Harry, Don Francks | | Animated film |
| Space Raiders | Howard R. Cohen | Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease | | |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside | | |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid | | |
| Superman III | Richard Lester | Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Annette O'Toole | | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, George Miller | Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan | | |
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg | James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry | | |
| Warrior of the Lost World | David Worth | Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson | | |
| Wavelength | Mike Gray | Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, Keenan Wynn | | |
| Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport | Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin | | |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner |  | |
| 1984 |
2010 | Peter Hyams | Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Keir Dullea | | [nb 11] |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | W. D. Richter | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd | | |
| Babičky dobíjejte přesně! | Ladislav Rychman | Daniela Kolářová, Jana Dítětová | | |
| The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James | | |
| Dreamscape | Joseph Ruben | Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer | | |
| Dune | David Lynch | Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif | | |
| Electric Dreams | Steve Barron | Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Bud Cort | | |
| The Ewok Adventure | John Korty | Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Tony Cox, Fionnula Flanagan | | [7] |
| The Element of Crime | Lars von Trier | Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai |  | |
| Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear | | |
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts | | |
| Gremlins | Joe Dante | Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton |
| |
| I Guerrieri dell'anno 2072 | Lucio Fulci | Jared Martin, Fred Williamson, Howard Ross | | |
| Iceman | Fred Schepisi | Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone | | |
| The Ice Pirates | Stewart Raffill | Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts | | |
| Impulse | Graham Baker | Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn | | |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy | | |
| Lensman | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Toshio Furukawa, Mami Koyama, Chikao Ōtsuka, Nachi Nozawa | | Anime film |
| Macross: Do You Remember Love? | Shoji Kawamori | Mari Iijima, Arihiro Hase, Mika Doi, Michio Hazama | | Anime film |
| The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser | | |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda | | Anime film |
| Night of the Comet | Thom Eberhardt | Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran | | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton | | |
| The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas | | |
| Repo Man | Alex Cox | Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash | | |
| The Return of Godzilla | Koji Hashimoto (director) | Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka | | |
| Runaway | Michael Crichton | Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley | | |
| Sayonara Jupiter | Koji Hashimoto | Tomokazu Miura, Dangely Diane, Miyuki Ono, Rachel Huggett | | |
| Sexmission | Juliusz Machulski | Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Hanna Stankówna | | |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd | | |
| Starman | John Carpenter | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith | | |
| The Terminator | James Cameron | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton | | [nb 12] |
| 1985 |
Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | | [nb 13] |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam | Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro | | [nb 14] |
| City Limits | Aaron Lipstadt | Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall | | |
| Cocoon | Ron Howard | Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy | | |
| Creature | William Malone | Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger | | |
| D.A.R.Y.L. | Simon Wincer | Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker | | |
| The Dungeonmaster | Dave Allen, Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Leslie Wing, Richard Moll | | |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James | | |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson | | |
| Gwen, or the Book of Sand | Jean-François Laguionie | Michel Robin, Lorella Di Cicco | | Animated film |
| Joey | Roland Emmerich | Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll | | |
| Lifeforce | Tobe Hooper | Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay | | |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Ogilvie, George Miller | Mel Gibson, Tina Turner | | |
| Morons from Outer Space | Mike Hodges | Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Brown | | |
| My Science Project | Jonathan Betuel | John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge | | |
| O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization | Piotr Szulkin | Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jędrusik | | |
| Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight | | | | Anime film |
| The Quiet Earth | Geoff Murphy | Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge |  | |
| Radioactive Dreams | Albert Pyun | Michael Dudikoff, Lisa Blount, Don Murray | | |
| Real Genius | Martha Coolidge | Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret | | |
| Re-Animator | Stuart Gordon | Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton | | |
| Space Rage | Conrad E. Palmisano | Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin | | |
| Starchaser: The Legend of Orin | Steven Hahn | Joe Colligan, Anthony De Longis, Carmen Argenziano | | Animated film |
| Trancers | Charles Band | Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt | | |
| Weird Science | John Hughes | Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton | | |
| 1986 |
Aliens | James Cameron | Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton | | [nb 15] |
| The Aurora Encounter | Jim McCullough, Sr. | Jack Elam, Peter Brown, Carol Bagdasarian | | [6] |
| Chopping Mall | Jim Wynorski | Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd | | [6] |
| Critters | Stephen Herek | Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush | | |
| Dead End Drive-In | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford | | |
| Dead Man's Letters | Konstantin Lopushansky | Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin | | antiutopia, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama |
| Death Powder | Shigeru Izumiya | Shigeru Izumiya, Rikako Murakami, Takichi Inukai | | |
| Deadly Friend | Wes Craven | Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett | | |
| Dirty Pair: Project Eden | Kōichi Mashimo | Saeko Shimazu, Kyōko Tongū, Katsuji Mori | | Anime film |
| Eliminators | Peter Manoogian | Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds | | |
| Fist of the North Star | Toyoo Ashida | Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi | | Anime film |
| Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker | | |
| The Fly | David Cronenberg | Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz | | [nb 16] |
| Gröna gubbar från Y.R. | Hans Hatwig | Carl Billquist, Curt Broberg, Åsa Dahlenborg |  | [8][nb 17] |
| Howard the Duck | Willard Huyck | Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins | | [nb 18] |
| Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper | Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher | | |
| Kamikaze | Didier Grousset | Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Galabru | | [9] |
| Kin-dza-dza! | Georgi Daneliya | Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeni Leonov, Yury Yakovlev | | |
| Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King | Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington | | |
| Night of the Creeps | Fred Dekker | Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow | | |
| Programmed to Kill | Allan Holzman | Robert Ginty, Sandahl Bergman, Louise Claire Clark, Alex Courtney | | [10] |
| Project A-ko | Katsuhiko Nishijima | | | Anime film |
| Short Circuit | John Badham | Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens | | |
| Star Crystal | Lance Lindsay | C. Juston Campbell, Faye Bolt, John W. Smith | | |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks | | |
| TerrorVision | Ted Nicolaou | Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov | | [11] |
| They Were Eleven | Satoshi Dezaki | | | Anime film |
| The Transformers: The Movie | Nelson Shin | Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, Orson Welles, Peter Cullen | | Animated film |
| Vendetta dal futuro | Sergio Martino | Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, John Saxon | | |
| The Wraith | Mike Marvin | Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Randy Quaid | | |
| Zone Troopers | Danny Bilson | Tim Thomerson, Tim Van Patten | | [12] |
| 1987 |
*batteries not included | Matthew Robbins | Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae | | |
| Amazon Women on the Moon | John Landis | Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Guttenberg | | |
| Bad Taste | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Mike Minett, Pete O'Herne | | |
| Cherry 2000 | Steve De Jarnatt | Melanie Griffith, David Andrews | | |
| Creepozoids | David DeCoteau | Linnea Quigley, Ashlyn Gere | | |
| Cyclops | Jôji Iida | Kai Atō, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuhiro Sano | | |
| The Curse | David Chaskin, David Keith | Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare | | [13] |
| Death Run | Michael J. Murphy | Rob Bartlett, Lynn Lowry | | |
| The Hidden | Jack Sholder | Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian | | |
| Innerspace | Joe Dante | Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan | | [nb 19] |
| The Kindred | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays | | [14] |
| Making Mr. Right | Susan Seidelman | John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly | | |
| Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster | | |
| Mr. India | Shekhar Kapur | Anil Kapoor, Sri Devi, Satish Kaushik, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor |  | |
| Nightflyers | Robert Collector, Gene Warren | Catherine Mary Stewart, John Standing, Michael Praed, Lisa Blount | | [15] |
| Predator | John McTiernan | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo | | |
| Prison Ship | Fred Olen Ray | Ross Hagen, Sandy Brooke, Susan Stokey, John Carradine | | [nb 20][16][17] |
| Project X | Jonathan Kaplan | Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, William Sadler | | |
| RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith | | [nb 21] |
| Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise | Hiroyuki Yamaga | | | Anime film |
| The Running Man | Paul Michael Glaser | Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson | | |
| Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga | | |
| Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity | Ken Dixon | Elizabeth Kaitan, Cindy Beal, Brinke Stevens | | |
| Steel Dawn | Lance Hool | Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Brion James | | |
| The Stepford Children | Alan J. Levi | Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Randall Batinkoff, Tammy Lauren | | |
| Timestalkers | Michael Schultz | William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Forrest Tucker, James Avery, John Ratzenberger | | |
| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Sidney J. Furie | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker | | |
| Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | | | Anime film |
| 1988 |
Akira | Katsuhiro Ōtomo | | | Anime film |
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland, Thom Mathews, Don Michael Paul | | |
| Alien Nation | Graham Baker | James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp | | [nb 22] |
| Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure | Deborah Brock | Randy Josselyn, Dianne Kay, Chuck Kovacic | | |
| As Time Goes By | Barry Peak | Max Gillies, Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles | | Comedy |
| The Blob | Chuck Russell | Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch | | |
| Critters 2: The Main Course | Mick Garris | Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper | | |
| Earth Girls Are Easy | Julien Temple | Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Michael McKean | | |
| Gandahar | René Laloux | | | Animated film |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | Stephen Chiodo | Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson | | |
| The Lawless Land | Jon Hess | Nick Corri, Leon Robinson, Xander Berkeley, Amanda Peterson | | [18][19] |
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars | Noboru Ishiguro | Ryō Horikawa, Kei Tomiyama | | Anime film |
| Mac and Me | Stewart Ratfill | Christine Ebersole, Tina Caspary, Jonathan Ward | | [20][nb 23] |
| Midnight Movie Massacre | Mark Stock, Larry Jacobs | Robert Clarke, Anne Robinson, David Staffer, Tom Hutsler | | [21][22] |
| Miracle Mile | Steve De Jarnatt | Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar | | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino | | | Anime film |
| My Stepmother Is an Alien | Richard Benjamin | Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Jon Lovitz | | |
| The Nest | Terence H. Winkless | Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois | | |
| Not of This Earth | Jim Wynorski | Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts | | |
| On the Silver Globe | Andrzej Zulawski | Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Dylag, Jerzy Trela | | |
| Pulse | Paul Golding | Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence | | |
| Short Circuit 2 | Kenneth Johnson | Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb | | |
| They Live | John Carpenter | Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster | | |
| Transformations | Jay Kamen | Rex Smith, Lisa Langlois, Patrick Macnee | | [23] |
| Warlords | Fred Olen Ray, Sid Haig | David Carradine, Dawn Wildsmith, Sid Haig | | [24] |
| World Gone Wild | Lee H. Katzin | Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart | | [25] |
| 1989 |
Alienator | Fred Olen Ray | Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen | | |
| Alien Seed | Bob James | Erik Estrada | | |
| Arena | Peter Manoogian | Claudia Christian, Marc Alaimo | | |
| The Abyss | James Cameron | Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn | | [nb 24] |
| Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | | |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | | |
| The Blood of Heroes | David Webb Peoples | Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo | | [26][27] |
| Bunker Palace Hôtel | Enki Bilal | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoît Régent | | [28] |
| Communion | Philippe Mora | Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen | | |
| Cyborg | Albert Pyun | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter | | |
| Deceit | Albert Pyun | Sam Phillips, Norbert Weisser, Scott Paulin | | |
| DeepStar Six | Sean S. Cunningham | Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard | | |
| The Five Star Stories | Kazuo Yamazaki | | | Anime film |
| Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol | | |
| Godzilla vs. Biollante | Kazuki Ōmori | Megumi Odaka, Yasuka Sawaguchi | | |
| Hard to Be a God | Peter Fleischmann | Edward Zentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier | | |
| Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman | | |
| Jetsons: The Movie | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | George O'Hanlon, Mel Blanc, Penny Singleton | | Animated film |
| Journey to the center of the earth | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland | | |
| Leviathan | George Pan Cosmatos | Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern | | |
| Lords of the Deep | Mary Ann Fisher | Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, Melody Ryane | | |
| Meet the Hollowheads | Thomas R. Burman | John Glover, Richard Portnow, Juliette Lewis | | [29][30] |
| Millennium | Michael Anderson | Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy | | |
| Moontrap | Robert Dyke | Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi | | |
| Mutant on the Bounty | Robert Torrance | Kyle T. Heffner, Scott Williamson, John Durbin | | [31] |
| Patlabor: The Movie | Mamoru Oshii | | | Anime film |
| The Return of Swamp Thing | Jim Wynorski | Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas | | |
| Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | | |
| Spontaneous Combustion | Tobe Hooper | Brad Dourif | | |
| Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | William Shatner | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan | | [nb 25] |
| The Terror Within | Thierry Notz | George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff | | |
| Tetsuo: The Iron Man | Shinya Tsukamoto | Tomoroh Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto | | |
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| Venus Wars | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | | | Anime film |
| A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina | | [32] |
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