| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Drama | Dave Baby, Timothy Burke, Simon Costin, Christopher Hobbs, Philip McDonald, Toby Mott, Steve Randall, Robert Sharp, Tony Wood, Judi Dench (narrator) and Paul Reynolds | ||||
| Aqueles Dois | Sérgio Amon | Brazil | Drama | Pedro Wayne, Beto Ruas | a.k.a. Those Two Based on the story of the same name by Caio Fernando Abreu | |
| Avenging Angel | Robert Vincent O'Neil | United States | Action | |||
| Italy West Germany | Drama | Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, Hanns Zischler, Andrea Prodan, Massimo Girotti, Pieter Daniel, William Berger, John Steiner, Edward Farrelly, Philippe Leroy and Claudio Lorimer | Based on the novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | |||
| The Boys Next Door | United States | Drama | ||||
| Buddies | United States | Drama | Geoff Edholm, Damon Hairston, Joyce Korn, Billy Lux, David Rose, Libby Saines, David Schachter, Susan Schneider and Tracy Vivat | First film to deal with the AIDS pandemic | ||
| France Italy | Comedy | |||||
| United States | Musical, comedy, drama | Based on the musical of the same name | ||||
| Colonel Redl | Austria Hungary West Germany | Drama | Based on the play A Patriot for Me by John Osborne, which itself is based on the true story of Alfred Redl | |||
| United States | Drama | Based on the epistolary novel of the same name by Alice Walker | ||||
| Consenting Adult | United States | Drama | ||||
| Desert Hearts | United States | Romance, drama | Based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule | |||
| Dona Herlinda and Her Son | Mexico | Romance, comedy, drama | Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño (credited as Marco Antonio Treviño), Guadalupe Del Toro, Letícia Lupercio, Josefina González, Lucha Villa and Guillermina Alba | |||
| An Early Frost | United States | Drama | ||||
| Extramuros | Spain | Drama | Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro, Aurora Bautista, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Ferrandis, Manuel Alexandre, Conrado San Martín, Valentín Paredes, Marta Fernández Muro, Beatriz Elorrieta, Cándida Losada, Maite Brik, Amparo Valle, Maria Caro and Mari Paz Molinero | |||
| Just One of the Guys | United States | Comedy | ||||
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Brazil United States | Drama | Based on the novel of the same name by Manuel Puig | |||
| The Court of the Pharaoh | Spain | Comedy, musical | Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustín González, Quique Camoiras, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Juan Diego, Guillermo Montesinos, María Luisa Ponte, Millán Salcedo, Antonio Gamero, Luis Ciges, Guillermo Marín and Pedro Farrés | a.k.a. La corte de Faraón | ||
| United States | Biography, drama | Based on the life and work of Yukio Mishima | ||||
| My Beautiful Laundrette | United Kingdom | Romance, drama | ||||
| United States | Horror | |||||
| No Sad Songs | Canada | Documentary | ||||
| Sortname | Alexandra von Grote | West Germany France | Romance, war, drama | Maurice Arama, Daniel Berlioux, Denise Boulet, Antonin Brunel, Nicole Camus, Marc Delestre, Danièle Delorme, Albert Delpy, Ingrid Dupont, Wolfgang Finck, Robert Florent, Stéphane Garcin, René Geney, Andreas Grothusen, Alexander Hauff, and Gabriele Osburg | aka Novembermond | |
| West Germany | Drama | Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin, Carola Regnier, Peter Weibel, Georgette Dee, Judith Flex, Barbara Ossenkopp, John Erdman, Daniela Ziegler, Katorka Takerka, Karin Roewer-Nennemann, George Lannan and Juerg Schlachter | aka Verführung: Die grausame FrauInspired by the novella Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | |||
| West Germany | Romance, drama | Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Andy Lucas, Frank Rediess, Andreas Bernhardt, Sasha Kogo, Hans-Jürgen Punte, Zazie de Paris, Harry Baer, Christoph Eichhorn, Jörg Uwe Dost, Thomas Kretschmann, Georges Stamkowski and Andrew Kelner |