List of science fiction films of the 1980s
A list of science fiction films released in the 1980s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1980s have received 14 Academy Awards, 11 Saturn Awards, six Hugo Awards, five BAFTA awards, four BSFA Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Four of these movies were the highest grossing films of their respective years of release. However, these films also received nine Golden Raspberry Awards.
List
| Year | Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 1980 in film| | The Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray | Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis | United States | Horror |
| 1980 in film| | Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban | United States | Horror |
| 1980 in film| | Aquanauts | Igor' Voznesenskiy | German Poloskov, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Iren Azer | Soviet Union | |
| 1980 in film| | Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy Murakami | George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, Richard Thomas | United States | Space opera |
| 1980 in film| | Be Forever Yamato | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Kei Tomiyama, Yōko Asagami, Shūsei Nakamura | Japan | |
| 1980 in film| | Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé | Italy West Germany | Horror |
| 1980 in film| | Crazy Thunder Road | Sōgo Ishii | Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Koji Nanjo | Japan | |
| 1980 in film| | Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex | Masayuki Akehi | Kazuhiko Inoue, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Keiichi Noda | Japan | Anime film based on the second anime television series of Cyborg 009 |
| 1980 in film| | Death Watch | Bertrand Tavernier | Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton | France West Germany | |
| 1980 in film| | The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | United States | Space opera |
| 1980 in film| | The Final Countdown | Don Taylor | Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross | United States | Alternate history |
| 1980 in film| | Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow | United States | Space opera |
| 1980 in film| | Galaxina | William Sachs | Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J. D. Hinton | United States | Science fantasy, comedy |
| 1980 in film| | Golem | Piotr Szulkin | Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Zólkowska | Poland | |
| 1980 in film| | Hangar 18 | James L. Conway | Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins | United States | |
| 1980 in film| | Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio | Italy Spain | Horror |
| 1980 in film| | Phoenix 2772 | Taku Sugiyama | Kaneto Shiozawa, Keiko Takeshita, Hiroshi Ôtake | Japan | Anime film based on Osamu Tezuka's manga series Phoenix |
| 1980 in film| | The Return | Vladimir Tarasov | Viktor Balashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Livanov | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Возвращение, tr. Vozvrashcheniye |
| 1980 in film| | Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen | Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 in film| | Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc | Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer | United States | |
| 1980 in film| | Superman II | Richard Lester | Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty | United States | Superhero |
| 1980 in film| | Toward the Terra | Hideo Onchi | Junichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi | Japan | Anime film based on Keiko Takemiya's science fiction manga series Toward the Terra |
| 1980 in film| | Virus | Kinji Fukasaku | Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi | Japan | Post-apocalyptic |
| 1981 in film| | Adieu Galaxy Express 999 | Rintaro | Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Kaneta Kimotsuki | Japan | |
| 1981 in film| | Earthbound | James L. Conway | Burl Ives, Christopher Connelly, Meredith MacRae | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Escape from New York | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Galaxy of Terror | B. D. Clark | Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Heartbeeps | Allan Arkush | Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Eugene Levy | United States Canada | |
| 1981 in film| | The Incredible Shrinking Woman | Joel Schumacher | Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, John Glover | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Inseminoid | Norman J. Warren | Judy Geeson, Heather Wright, Trevor Thomas, Stephanie Beacham | United Kingdom | USA title: Horror Planet |
| 1981 in film| | Klaabu in Space | Avo Paistik | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Estonian title: Klaabu kosmoses | |
| 1981 in film| | The Last Chase | Martyn Burke | Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Looker | Michael Crichton | Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Mad Max 2 | George Miller | Mel Gibson | Australia | |
| 1981 in film| | Malevil | Christian de Chalonge | Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret | France | |
| 1981 in film| | Memoirs of a Survivor | David Gladwell | Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger | United Kingdom | |
| 1981 in film| | Mobile Suit Gundam | Ryôji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shôzô Iizuka, Toshio Furukawa | Japan | |
| 1981 in film| | Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino | Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Fuyumi Shiraishi | Japan | |
| 1981 in film| | The Mystery of the Third Planet | Roman Kachanov | Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Andreyev, Grigoriy Shpigel' | Soviet Union | Animated film |
| 1981 in film| | Nuclear Shelter | Roberto Pires | Conceição Senna, Sasso Alano, Roberto Pires | Brazil | Eco-dystopian. Portuguese title: Abrigo Nuclear |
| 1981 in film| | Outland | Peter Hyams | Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen | United Kingdom | |
| 1981 in film| | Per Aspera Ad Astra | Richard Viktorov | Aleksandr Mikhajlov, Gleb Strizhenov, Alexander Lazarev | Soviet Union | Alternate titles: Through the Thorns to the Stars; Humanoid Woman |
| 1981 in film| | Scanners | David Cronenberg | Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan | Canada | |
| 1981 in film| | Scared to Death | William Malone | John Stinson | United States | |
| 1981 in film| | Space Warrior Baldios | Kazuyuki Hirokawa | Japan | ||
| 1981 in film| | Visitors from the Galaxy | Dušan Vukotić | Ljubiša Samardžić, Ivana Andrlová, Cvijeta Mesic | Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia | |
| 1981 in film| | ' | Piotr Szulkin | Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski | Poland | |
| 1982 in film| | ' | Enzo G. Castellari | Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williamson | Italy | |
| 1982 in film| | The Aftermath | Steve Barkett | Sid Haig, Forrest J Ackerman, Jim Danforth | United States | UK title: Zombie Aftermath |
| 1982 in film| | ' | Ken Finkleman | Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro | Joe D'Amato | Harrison Muller, Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani | Italy | |
| 1982 in film| | Android | Aaron Lipstadt | Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Andromeda Stories | Masamitsu Sasaki | Mami Koyama, Tōru Furuya, Toshiko Fujita, Chiyoko Kawashima | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | Arcadia of My Youth | Tomoharu Katsumata | Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama, Reiko Tajima, Reiko Mutō | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah | United States Hong Kong | |
| 1982 in film| | Burst City | Sōgo Ishii | Michirou Endo, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Kou Machida | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | Button | Vladimir Tarasov | Soviet Union | Animated short film | |
| 1982 in film| | Café Flesh | Stephen Sayadian | Michelle Bauer, Richard Belzer | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Cat People | Paul Schrader | Nastassja Kinski, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Chronopolis | Piotr Kamler | France | Animated film | |
| 1982 in film| | Crosstalk | Mark Egerton | Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart | Australia | |
| 1982 in film| | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Forbidden World | Allan Holzman | Jesse Vint, June Chadwick | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Kamikaze 1989 | Wolf Gremm | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis | West Germany | |
| 1982 in film| | The Masters of Time | René Laloux | Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros, Yves-Marie Maurin | France Hungary | Animated film |
| 1982 in film| | Megaforce | Hal Needham | Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Henry Silva | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space | Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yô Inoue | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | The New Barbarians | Enzo G. Castellari | Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini | Italy | |
| 1982 in film| | Nightbeast | Don Dohler | Donald Leifert, Tom Griffiths | United States | Horror |
| 1982 in film| | Parasite | Charles Band | Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore | United States | Horror |
| 1982 in film| | Queen Millennia | Masayuki Akehi | Keiko Han, Keiko Toda, Ichirô Nagai, Mami Koyama | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | Space Adventure Cobra | Osamu Dezaki | Shigeru Matsuzaki, Ryoko Sakakibara, Akiko Nakamura, Toshiko Fujita | Japan | |
| 1982 in film| | ' | Nicholas Meyer | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Ricardo Montalbán | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Swamp Thing | Wes Craven, Walter von Huene | Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | The Thing | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan, David Clennon | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | ' | William Dear | Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur, Ed Lauter, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Walter | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Time Walker | Tom Kennedy | Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Tron | Steven Lisberger | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig | Australia | |
| 1982 in film| | Warlords of the 21st Century | Harley Cokliss | Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright | United States | |
| 1982 in film| | Zapped! | Robert J. Rosenthal | Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Heather Thomas, Robert Mandan | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | 2019, After the Fall of New York | Sergio Martino | Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis | Italy France | |
| 1983 in film| | Anniversary | Vladimir Tarasov | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Юбилей, tr. Yubiley | |
| 1983 in film| | Anna to the Infinite Power | Robert Wiemer | Martha Byrne, Dina Merrill | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | The Atlantis Interceptors | Ruggero Deodato | Ivan Rassimov | Italy | |
| 1983 in film| | Born in Flames | Lizzie Borden | Jeanne Satterfield, Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Brainstorm | Douglas Trumbull | Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | BrainWaves | Ulli Lommel | Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Tony Curtis | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | The Creature Wasn't Nice | Bruce Kimmel | Leslie Nielsen, Cindy Williams, Gerrit Graham | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Crusher Joe | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Japan | ||
| 1983 in film| | Daijōbu, My Friend | Ryū Murakami | Peter Fonda, Reona Hirota | Japan | |
| 1983 in film| | The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | The Deadly Spawn | Douglas McKeown | Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Document Fang of the Sun Dougram | Ryōsuke Takahashi | Japan | ||
| 1983 in film| | Endgame | Joe D'Amato | Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman | Italy | |
| 1983 in film| | Escape from the Bronx | Enzo G. Castellari | Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici | Italy | |
| 1983 in film| | Exterminators of the Year 3000 | Giuliano Carmineo | Robert Iannucci, Alicia Moro, Eduardo Fajardo | Italy | |
| 1983 in film| | Final Yamato | Tomoharu Katsumata, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Toshio Masuda | Kei Tomiyama, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya, Isao Sasaki | Japan | |
| 1983 in film| | ' | Tommy Lee Wallace | Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Harmagedon | Rintaro | Tôru Furuya, Mami Koyama, Masako Ikeda, Keiko Han | Japan | |
| 1983 in film| | Kometa | Richard Viktorov | Nadezhda Semencova, Anatolij Kuznecov | Soviet Union | Comedy |
| 1983 in film| | Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones | United Kingdom United States | |
| 1983 in film| | The Last Battle | Luc Besson | Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper | France | |
| 1983 in film| | Liquid Sky | Slava Tsukerman | Anne Carlisle, Paula Sheppard, Susan Doukas | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | ' | Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Tim Thomerson, Kelly Preston, Richard Moll | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | The Pod People | Juan Piquer Simón | Óscar Martín, Concha Cuetos, Manuel Pereiro | Spain France | |
| 1983 in film| | Prisoners of the Lost Universe | Terry Marcel | Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon | United Kingdom | |
| 1983 in film| | The Prize of Peril | Yves Boisset | Gérard Lanvin, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Pisier | France Yugoslavia | |
| 1983 in film| | Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | Paul Le Mat, Deborah Harry, Don Francks | Canada | |
| 1983 in film| | Space Raiders | Howard R. Cohen | Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | ' | Lamont Johnson | Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid | Canada United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Superman III | Richard Lester | Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Annette O'Toole | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | ' | Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, George Miller | Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Videodrome | David Cronenberg | James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry | Canada | |
| 1983 in film| | Warrior of the Lost World | David Worth | Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson | Italy | |
| 1983 in film| | Wavelength | Mike Gray | Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, Keenan Wynn | United States | |
| 1983 in film| | Xabungle Graffiti | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Japan | ||
| 1983 in film| | Xtro | Harry Bromley Davenport | Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin | United Kingdom | |
| 1983 in film| | Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner | Italy France Turkey | |
| 1984 in film| | 2010 | Peter Hyams | Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Keir Dullea | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | W. D. Richter | Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Babičky dobíjejte přesně! | Ladislav Rychman | Daniela Kolářová, Jana Dítětová | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1984 in film| | Bloodsuckers from Outer Space | Glen Coburn | Thom Meyes, Dennis Letts, Laura Ellis | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Dreamscape | Joseph Ruben | Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Dune | David Lynch | Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Electric Dreams | Steve Barron | Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Bud Cort | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Ewok Adventure | John Korty | Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Tony Cox, Fionnula Flanagan | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Element of Crime | Lars von Trier | Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai | Denmark | |
| 1984 in film| | Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Gremlins | Joe Dante | Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | I Guerrieri dell'anno 2072 | Lucio Fulci | Jared Martin, Fred Williamson, Howard Ross | Italy | |
| 1984 in film| | Iceman | Fred Schepisi | Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Ice Pirates | Stewart Raffill | Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Impulse | Graham Baker | Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Lensman | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Toshio Furukawa, Mami Koyama, Chikao Ōtsuka, Nachi Nozawa | Japan | |
| 1984 in film| | ' | Shoji Kawamori | Mari Iijima, Arihiro Hase, Mika Doi, Michio Hazama | Japan | |
| 1984 in film| | The Meeting | Mikhail Titov | Soviet Union | Animated short film | |
| 1984 in film| | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda | Japan | |
| 1984 in film| | Night of the Comet | Thom Eberhardt | Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Michael Radford | John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton | United Kingdom | |
| 1984 in film| | The Noah's Ark Principle | Roland Emmerich | Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser | West Germany | |
| 1984 in film| | The Philadelphia Experiment | Stewart Raffill | Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Repo Man | Alex Cox | Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Return of Godzilla | Koji Hashimoto | Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka | Japan United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Runaway | Michael Crichton | Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Sayonara Jupiter | Koji Hashimoto | Tomokazu Miura, Dangely Diane, Miyuki Ono, Rachel Huggett | Japan | |
| 1984 in film| | Sexmission | Juliusz Machulski | Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Hanna Stankówna | Poland | |
| 1984 in film| | ' | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | Starman | John Carpenter | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Terminator | James Cameron | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton | United States | |
| 1984 in film| | The Toxic Avenger | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda | United States | Science fiction action |
| 1985 in film| | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro | United Kingdom | |
| 1985 in film| | City Limits | Aaron Lipstadt | Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Cocoon | Ron Howard | Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Contract | Vladimir Tarasov | Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Yevgeniy Steblov, Boris Ivanov | Soviet Union | Animated short film |
| 1985 in film| | Creature | William Malone | Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Diane Salinger | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | D.A.R.Y.L. | Simon Wincer | Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | The Dungeonmaster | Dave Allen, Charles Band | Jeffrey Byron, Leslie Wing, Richard Moll | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Day of the Dead | George Romero | Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Richard Liberty, Sherman Howard | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Explorers | Joe Dante | Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Galaxy Invader | Don Dohler | Richard Ruxton, George Stover, Faye Tilles, Glenn Barnes | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Gwen, or the Book of Sand | Jean-François Laguionie | Michel Robin, Lorella Di Cicco | France | Animated film |
| 1985 in film| | Joey | Roland Emmerich | Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll | West Germany | |
| 1985 in film| | Lifeforce | Tobe Hooper | Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay | United Kingdom United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Ogilvie, George Miller | Mel Gibson, Tina Turner | Australia | |
| 1985 in film| | Morons from Outer Space | Mike Hodges | Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Brown | United Kingdom | |
| 1985 in film| | My Science Project | Jonathan Betuel | John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | ' | Piotr Szulkin | Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jędrusik | Poland | |
| 1985 in film| | ' | Toshio Masuda | Japan | ||
| 1985 in film| | The Quiet Earth | Geoff Murphy | Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge | New Zealand | |
| 1985 in film| | Radioactive Dreams | Albert Pyun | Michael Dudikoff, Lisa Blount, Don Murray | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Real Genius | Martha Coolidge | Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Re-Animator | Stuart Gordon | Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | The Return of the Living Dead | Dan O'Bannon | Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa | United States | Science fiction horror comedy |
| 1985 in film| | Space Rage | Conrad E. Palmisano | Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | ' | Steven Hahn | Joe Colligan, Anthony De Longis, Carmen Argenziano | United States | Animated film |
| 1985 in film| | The Stuff | Larry Cohen | Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Trancers | Charles Band | Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt | United States | |
| 1985 in film| | Two Tickets to India | Roman Kachanov | Anatoliy Arabenov, Marina Boskan'yants, Iosif Kuroyan | Soviet Union | Animated short film |
| 1985 in film| | Visit with Van Gogh | Horst Seemann | Grażyna Szapołowska, Christian Grashof, Rolf Hoppe | East Germany West Germany | German title: Besuch bei Van Gogh |
| 1985 in film| | Weird Science | John Hughes | Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Aliens | James Cameron | Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Armadillo Blood | Marcos Bertoni | Flora Calviño, Henrique Zanetta, Louis Chilson | Brazil | Portuguese title: Sangue de Tatu |
| 1986 in film| | The Aurora Encounter | Jim McCullough, Sr. | Jack Elam, Peter Brown, Carol Bagdasarian | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | The Battle | Mikhail Titov | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Сражение, tr. Srazheniye | |
| 1986 in film| | Chopping Mall | Jim Wynorski | Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Critters | Stephen Herek | Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Dead End Drive-In | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford | Australia | |
| 1986 in film| | Dead Man's Letters | Konstantin Lopushansky | Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin | Soviet Union | antiutopia, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama |
| 1986 in film| | Death Powder | Shigeru Izumiya | Shigeru Izumiya, Rikako Murakami, Takichi Inukai | Japan | |
| 1986 in film| | Deadly Friend | Wes Craven | Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | ' | Kōichi Mashimo | Saeko Shimazu, Kyōko Tongū, Katsuji Mori | Japan | |
| 1986 in film| | Eliminators | Peter Manoogian | Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Fist of the North Star | Toyoo Ashida | Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi | Japan | |
| 1986 in film| | Flight of the Navigator | Randal Kleiser | Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | The Fly | David Cronenberg | Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz | United States Canada | |
| 1986 in film| | Ga, Ga - Chwala bohaterom | Peter Szulkin | Katarzyna Figura, Daniel Olbrychski, Marek Walczewski, Jan Nowicki | Poland | |
| 1986 in film| | Gröna gubbar från Y.R. | Hans Hatwig | Carl Billquist, Curt Broberg, Åsa Dahlenborg | Sweden | |
| 1986 in film| | Howard the Duck | Willard Huyck | Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper | Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Kamikaze | Didier Grousset | Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant, Michel Galabru | France | |
| 1986 in film| | Kin-dza-dza! | Georgi Daneliya | Stanislav Lyubshin, Yevgeni Leonov, Yury Yakovlev | Soviet Union | |
| 1986 in film| | Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King | Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Night of the Creeps | Fred Dekker | Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Programmed to Kill | Allan Holzman | Robert Ginty, Sandahl Bergman, Louise Claire Clark, Alex Courtney | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Project A-ko | Katsuhiko Nishijima | Japan | ||
| 1986 in film| | Short Circuit | John Badham | Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Star Crystal | Lance Lindsay | C. Juston Campbell, Faye Bolt, John W. Smith | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | ' | Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | TerrorVision | Ted Nicolaou | Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | They Were Eleven | Satoshi Dezaki | Japan | ||
| 1986 in film| | ' | Nelson Shin | Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, Orson Welles, Peter Cullen | United States | Animated film |
| 1986 in film| | Vendetta dal futuro | Sergio Martino | Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, John Saxon | Italy | |
| 1986 in film| | The Wraith | Mike Marvin | Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Randy Quaid | United States | |
| 1986 in film| | Zone Troopers | Danny Bilson | Tim Thomerson, Tim Van Patten | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | *batteries not included | Matthew Robbins | Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Amazon Women on the Moon | John Landis | Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Guttenberg | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Bad Taste | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson, Mike Minett, Pete O'Herne | New Zealand | |
| 1987 in film| | Cherry 2000 | Steve De Jarnatt | Melanie Griffith, David Andrews | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Creepozoids | David DeCoteau | Linnea Quigley, Ashlyn Gere | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Cyclops | Jôji Iida | Kai Atō, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuhiro Sano | Japan | |
| 1987 in film| | The Curse | David Chaskin, David Keith | Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Death Run | Michael J. Murphy | Rob Bartlett, Lynn Lowry | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | The Hidden | Jack Sholder | Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Innerspace | Joe Dante | Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | The Kindred | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | The Lesson | Robert Sahakyants | Soviet Union | Animated short film | |
| 1987 in film| | Making Mr. Right | Susan Seidelman | John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Mr. India | Shekhar Kapur | Anil Kapoor, Sri Devi, Satish Kaushik, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor | India | |
| 1987 in film| | Nightflyers | Robert Collector, Gene Warren | Catherine Mary Stewart, John Standing, Michael Praed, Lisa Blount | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Predator | John McTiernan | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Prison Ship | Fred Olen Ray | Ross Hagen, Sandy Brooke, Susan Stokey, John Carradine | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Project X | Jonathan Kaplan | Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, William Sadler | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | ' | Hiroyuki Yamaga | Japan | ||
| 1987 in film| | The Running Man | Paul Michael Glaser | Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity | Ken Dixon | Elizabeth Kaitan, Cindy Beal, Brinke Stevens | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Steel Dawn | Lance Hool | Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Brion James | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | The Stepford Children | Alan J. Levi | Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Randall Batinkoff, Tammy Lauren | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | Timestalkers | Michael Schultz | William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Forrest Tucker, James Avery, John Ratzenberger | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | ' | Sidney J. Furie | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker | United States | |
| 1987 in film| | The Veldt | Nozim To'laxo'jayev | Yuriy Belyayev, Nelli Pshyonnaya, Giorgi Gegechkori | Soviet Union | |
| 1987 in film| | Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Japan | ||
| 1988 in film| | Akira | Katsuhiro Ōtomo | Japan | ||
| 1988 in film| | Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland, Thom Mathews, Don Michael Paul | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Alien Nation | Graham Baker | James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure | Deborah Brock | Randy Josselyn, Dianne Kay, Chuck Kovacic | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | As Time Goes By | Barry Peak | Max Gillies, Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles | Australia | Comedy |
| 1988 in film| | The Blob | Chuck Russell | Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | The Brain | Edward Hunt | Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale | Canada | Horror |
| 1988 in film| | ' | Mick Garris | Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Dead Heat | Mark Goldblatt | Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Vincent Price | United States | Sci-fi horror |
| 1988 in film| | Earth Girls Are Easy | Julien Temple | Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Michael McKean | United States United Kingdom | |
| 1988 in film| | Gandahar | René Laloux | France | Animated film | |
| 1988 in film| | Hell Comes to Frogtown | Donald G. Jackson, R. J. Kizer | Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, Cec Verrell, William Smith, Rory Calhoun | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Killer Klowns from Outer Space | Stephen Chiodo | Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | The Lawless Land | Jon Hess | Nick Corri, Leon Robinson, Xander Berkeley, Amanda Peterson | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars | Noboru Ishiguro | Ryō Horikawa, Kei Tomiyama | Japan | |
| 1988 in film| | Mac and Me | Stewart Ratfill | Christine Ebersole, Tina Caspary, Jonathan Ward | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Midnight Movie Massacre | Mark Stock, Larry Jacobs | Robert Clarke, Anne Robinson, David Staffer, Tom Hutsler | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Miracle Mile | Steve De Jarnatt | Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Mirai Ninja | Keita Amemiya | Hanbei Kawai, Hiroki Ida, Eri Morishita | Japan | Action |
| 1988 in film| | ' | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Japan | ||
| 1988 in film| | Moonwalker | Jerry Kramer, Colin Chilvers | Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon | United States | The sixth and main segment of this experimental anthology musical film titled Smooth Criminal is a 40-minute science fiction superhero crime noir short film |
| 1988 in film| | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Richard Benjamin | Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Alyson Hannigan, Jon Lovitz | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | The Nest | Terence H. Winkless | Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Not of This Earth | Jim Wynorski | Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | On the Silver Globe | Andrzej Zulawski | Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Dylag, Jerzy Trela | Poland | |
| 1988 in film| | The Pass | Vladimir Tarasov | Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksandr Pashutin | Soviet Union | Animated short film |
| 1988 in film| | Pulse | Paul Golding | Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Robowar | Bruno Mattei | Reb Brown, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni | Italy | |
| 1988 in film| | Short Circuit 2 | Kenneth Johnson | Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Space Mutiny | David Winters, Neal Sundstrom | Reb Brown, Cameron Mitchell, Cisse Cameron | South Africa | Science fiction action |
| 1988 in film| | They Live | John Carpenter | Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Transformations | Jay Kamen | Rex Smith, Lisa Langlois, Patrick Macnee | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | Warlords | Fred Olen Ray, Sid Haig | David Carradine, Dawn Wildsmith, Sid Haig | United States | |
| 1988 in film| | World Gone Wild | Lee H. Katzin | Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Alienator | Fred Olen Ray | Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Alien Seed | Bob James | Erik Estrada | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Arena | Peter Manoogian | Claudia Christian, Marc Alaimo | Italy | |
| 1989 in film| | The Abyss | James Cameron | Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | The Blood of Heroes | David Webb Peoples | Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo | Australia United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Bunker Palace Hôtel | Enki Bilal | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoît Régent | France | |
| 1989 in film| | Communion | Philippe Mora | Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Cyborg | Albert Pyun | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Deceit | Albert Pyun | Sam Phillips, Norbert Weisser, Scott Paulin | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | DeepStar Six | Sean S. Cunningham | Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | The Evil Below | Wayne Crawford | Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, Paul Siebert | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | The Five Star Stories | Kazuo Yamazaki | Japan | ||
| 1989 in film| | Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Godzilla vs. Biollante | Kazuki Ōmori | Megumi Odaka, Yasuka Sawaguchi | Japan | |
| 1989 in film| | Gunhed | Masato Harada | Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke | Japan | |
| 1989 in film| | Hard to Be a God | Peter Fleischmann | Edward Zentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier | West Germany Soviet Union | |
| 1989 in film| | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | ' | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | George O'Hanlon, Mel Blanc, Penny Singleton | United States | Animated film |
| 1989 in film| | Journey to the center of the earth | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Leviathan | George Pan Cosmatos | Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern | Italy United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Lords of the Deep | Mary Ann Fisher | Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, Melody Ryane | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Meet the Hollowheads | Thomas R. Burman | John Glover, Richard Portnow, Juliette Lewis | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Millennium | Michael Anderson | Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Moontrap | Robert Dyke | Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Leigh Lombardi | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Mutant on the Bounty | Robert Torrance | Kyle T. Heffner, Scott Williamson, John Durbin | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | ' | Mamoru Oshii | Japan | ||
| 1989 in film| | The Return of Swamp Thing | Jim Wynorski | Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | United Kingdom United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Spontaneous Combustion | Tobe Hooper | Brad Dourif | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | ' | William Shatner | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | The Terror Within | Thierry Notz | George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff | United States | |
| 1989 in film| | Shinya Tsukamoto | Tomoroh Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | ||
| 1989 in film| | Venus Wars | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Japan | ||
| 1989 in film| | A Visitor to a Museum | Konstantin Lopushansky | Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina | Soviet Union Switzerland West Germany |