| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Half Moon Street | Bob Swaim | Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine | Thriller | from Paul Theroux novel |
| Hamburger... The Motion Picture | Mike Marvin | Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus | Comedy | |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow | Romantic comedy | Oscars for Caine, Wiest |
| Haunted Honeymoon | Gene Wilder | Gilda Radner, Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise | Comedy | Radner's final film |
| Heartbreak Ridge | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Mario van Peebles, Marsha Mason | Drama, War | filmed partly in Grenada |
| Heartburn | Mike Nichols | Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson | Drama | from Nora Ephron novel |
| Heat | Dick Richards | Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol | Action film | from William Goldman novel |
| Heathcliff: The Movie | Bruno Bianchi | Mel Blanc | Animation | |
| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | John McNaughton | Michael Rooker, Tom Towles | Crime | |
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown | Science fiction | followed by several sequels |
| The Hitcher | Robert Harmon | Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh | Thriller | |
| Hoosiers | David Anspaugh | Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley | Sports drama | released in U.K. as Best Shot |
| House | Steve Miner | William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt | Horror | |
| Howard the Duck | Willard Huyck | Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins | Science fiction comedy | won 4 Razzie awards |
| Invaders from Mars | Tobe Hooper | Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman | Science fiction | remake of 1953 film |
| Iron Eagle | Sidney J. Furie | Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Gedrick | Action | followed by 3 sequels |
| Jake Speed | Andrew Lane | Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins | Action Comedy | |
| Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Richard Pryor | Richard Pryor, Paula Kelly, Wings Hauser | Drama | only film directed by Pryor |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash | Penny Marshall | Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, Annie Potts | Comedy | first film directed by Marshall |
| Just Between Friends | Allan Burns | Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson | Drama | Orion |
| The Karate Kid, Part II | John G. Avildsen | Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita | Family drama | sequel to The Karate Kid |
| King Kong Lives | John Guillermin | Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin | Science fiction | |
| Knights of the City | Dominic Orlando | Leon Isaac Kennedy, Nicholas Campbell, John Mengatti | Action | |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly | Science fiction | final film directed by Henson |
| Legal Eagles | Ivan Reitman | Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, Steven Hill | Comedy | Universal |
| Let's Get Harry | Stuart Rosenberg | Michael Schoeffling, Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall | Comedy | |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz | Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin | Musical comedy | remake of 1960 film |
| Lucas | David Seltzer | Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder | Comedy, drama | |
| Luxo, Jr. | John Lasseter | | Animated film | 1st film from Pixar |
| The Manhattan Project | Marshall Brickman | John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon | Drama | Gladden Entertainment |
| Manhunter | Michael Mann | William Petersen, Dennis Farina, Brian Cox, Joan Allen, Tom Noonan, Kim Greist, Stephen Lang | Thriller | based on novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris |
| Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King | Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle | Thriller | only film directed by King |
| The Men's Club | Peter Medak | Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, Treat Williams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stockard Channing | Drama | |
| Miracles | Jim Kouf | Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Conti | Comedy | |
| The Mission | Roland Joffé | Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn | Drama | 7 Oscar nominations |
| Modern Girls | Jerry Kramer | Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Daphne Zuniga | Comedy | |
| The Money Pit | Richard Benjamin | Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna, Yakov Smirnoff | Comedy | based on Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House |
| Monster in the Closet | Bob Dahlin | Paul Dooley, Claude Akins, Stella Stevens, Howard Duff, Frank Ashmore | Comedy horror | |
| The Morning After | Sidney Lumet | Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raúl Juliá | Mystery | Academy Award nomination for Fonda |
| The Mosquito Coast | Peter Weir | Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix | Drama | from Paul Theroux novel |
| Murphy's Law | J. Lee Thompson | Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress | Action | Cannon Films |
| My Chauffeur | David Beaird | Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, Penn & Teller | Comedy | Crown International |
| My Little Girl | Connie Kaiserman | Mary Stuart Masterson, James Earl Jones, Geraldine Chaplin | Drama | |
| My Little Pony: The Movie | Michael Joens | Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Madeline Kahn | Animated film | |