| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Asterix in Britain | Pino van Lamsweerde | | Adventure, comedy | French–Danish co-production |
| Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Consuelo de Haviland | Drama | |
| Exploits of a Young Don Juan | Gianfranco Mingozzi | Fabrice Josso, Claudine Auger, Serena Grandi | — | French–Italian co-production |
| Ginger and Fred | Federico Fellini | Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi | Comedy-drama | Italian–French–West German co-production |
| The Green Ray | Éric Rohmer | Marie Rivière, Rosette, Béatrice Romand | Drama | |
| Hôtel du Paradis | Jana Boková | Fernando Rey, Fabrice Luchini, Hugues Quester | Drama | French–British co-production |
| I Love You | Marco Ferreri | Anémone, Eddy Mitchell, Christopher Lambert | Comedy drama | French–Italian co-production |
| Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu | — | |
| Kamikaze | Didier Grousset | Michel Galabru, Richard Bohringer, Dominique Lavanant | Thriller, science fiction | |
| Le couteau sous la gorge | Claude Mulot | Florence Guérin, Alexandre Sterling | Crime | |
| Les Fugitifs | Francis Veber | Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Anaïs Bret | Comedy | |
| A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Claude Lelouch | Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Évelyne Bouix | Drama | |
| Manon des Sources | Claude Berri | Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart | Drama | |
| Mauvais Sang | Léos Carax | Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche | Crime, romance | |
| Max mon amour | Nagisa Oshima | Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick | — | |
| Ménage | Bertrand Blier | Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou | Comedy | |
| My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister | Jacques Rouffio | Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche | Comedy | |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger | Mystery | West German–Italian–French co-production |
| Pirates | Roman Polanski | Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson | Adventure | French–Tunisian co-production |
| Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Sandra Reaves-Phillip | Drama | French–American co-production |
| The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky | Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall | Drama | Swedish–French co-production |
| Salomè | Claude d'Anna | Jo Champa, Fabrizio Bentivoglio | Drama | |
| Sarraounia | Med Hondo | Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine | — | French–Burkina Faso co-production |
| Scene of the Crime | André Téchiné | Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi | Drama | |
| Terminus | Pierre-William Glenn | Johnny Hallyday | Adventure | |
| Twist again à Moscou | Jean-Marie Poiré | Philippe Noiret, Christian Clavier, Martin Lamotte | Comedy | |
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