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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3: The Mighty Ducks | Robert Lieberman | Emilio Estevez, Joshua Jackson | Family | 2nd sequel to The Mighty Ducks |
| Daddy's Girl | Martin Kitrosser | William Katt, Michele Greene | Drama | |
| Dallas: J.R. Returns | Leonard Katzman | Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray | Drama | made for TV |
| Daylight | Rob Cohen | Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman | Disaster | |
| The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola | Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey | Drama | |
| Dead Man's Island | Peter H. Hunt | Barbara Eden, William Shatner | Suspense | |
| Deadly Outbreak | Rick Avery | Jeff Speakman, Ron Silver | Action | |
| Dear Diary | David Frankel | Bebe Neuwirth, Bruce Altman | Short subject | Oscar winner; 38 minutes |
| Dear God | Garry Marshall | Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway | Comedy | |
| Death and the Compass | Alex Cox | Drama | ||
| Demolition High | Jim Wynorski | Corey Haim, Alan Thicke, Dick Van Patten | Action | direct-to-video |
| Denise Calls Up | Hal Salwen | Timothy Daly, Liev Schreiber | Comedy | |
| The Dentist | Brian Yuzna | Corbin Bernsen, Molly Hagan | Horror | |
| Diabolique | Jeremiah S. Chechik | Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates | Thriller | remake of 1955 film |
| Diary of a Camper | Matthew Van Sickler | (none) | Machinima Animated | |
| Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood | Paris Barclay | Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Bernie Mac, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Omar Epps | Comedy | |
| Don't Look Back | Geoff Murphy | Eric Stoltz, Billy Bob Thornton | Drama | |
| Dorf on the Diamond | Tim Conway | Comedy | ||
| Down Periscope | David S. Ward | Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern | Comedy | |
| Dragonheart | Rob Cohen | Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Jason Isaacs, (voice of) Sean Connery | Fantasy | |
| Drawing Flies | Malcolm Ingram | Jason Lee, Jason Mewes | Comedy | |
| Dream for an Insomniac | Tiffanie DeBartolo | Ione Skye, Jennifer Aniston | Drama | |
| Dunston Checks In | Ken Kwapis | Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, Paul Reubens, Eric Lloyd | Comedy | |
| East Palace, West Palace | Drama | |||
| Ed | Bill Couturie | Matt LeBlanc | Comedy | 3 Razzie nominations |
| Ed's Next Move | John C. Walsh | Matt Ross | Comedy | |
| Eddie | Steve Rash | Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella, Dennis Farina | Comedy | |
| Emma | Douglas McGrath | Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Jeremy Northam | Drama | based on Jane Austen novel |
| The Empty Mirror | Barry J. Hershey | Norman Rodway, Camilla Søeberg | Drama | |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe | Drama | Won 9 Academy Awards |
| Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story | Michael Ray Rhodes | Moira Kelly, Heather Graham, Martin Sheen | Drama | |
| Eraser | Chuck Russell | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, Robert Pastorelli, James Coburn | Action | |
| Escape from L.A. | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Stacy Keach, Michelle Forbes | Action | sequel to Escape from New York |
| The Evening Star | Robert Harling | Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, George Newbern, Mackenzie Astin | Drama | sequel to Terms of Endearment |
| Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen | Edward Norton, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman | Musical comedy | |
| Evita | Alan Parker | Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Jonathan Pryce | Musical | from Andrew Lloyd Webber play |
| Executive Decision | Stuart Baird | Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet, Steven Seagal | Action | |
| Extreme Measures | Michael Apted | Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker | Thriller | |
| Eye for an Eye | John Schlesinger | Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris | Thriller | |
| The Face | Jack Bender | Yasmine Bleeth, Richard Beymer | Drama | TV |
| Faces of Death VI | Horror | |||
| Faithful | Paul Mazursky | Cher, Ryan O'Neal, Chazz Palminteri | Comedy | |
| A Family Thing | Richard Pearce | Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones | Comedy | |
| The Fan | Tony Scott | Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, Benicio del Toro | Thriller | |
| Fargo | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell | Black Comedy | Academy Award for McDormand |
| Fear | James Foley | Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, Alyssa Milano, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman | Thriller | |
| Feeling Minnesota | Steven Baigelman | Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz | Drama | |
| Fetishes | Nick Broomfield | Documentary | ||
| Fever Lake | Rafe M. Portilo | Corey Haim, Mario Lopez, Bo Hopkins | Slasher | direct-to-video |
| Fire on the Mountain | Documentary, War | |||
| First Kid | David Mickey Evans | Sinbad, Brock Pierce | Comedy | |
| The First Wives Club | Hugh Wilson | Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler | Comedy | |
| Fled | Kevin Hooks | Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin | Crime | |
| Flipper | Alan Shapiro | Elijah Wood, Paul Hogan | Family | based on the TV series |
| Flirting with Disaster | David O. Russell | Ben Stiller, Téa Leoni, Patricia Arquette, Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Lily Tomlin | Comedy | |
| Fly Away Home | Carroll Ballard | Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany | Family | |
| Follow Me Home | Peter Bratt | Alfre Woodard, Benjamin Bratt | Drama | |
| For Hope | Bob Saget | Dana Delany, Tracy Nelson | Drama | TV |
| Foxfire | Annette Haywood-Carter | Angelina Jolie, Jenny Shimizu | ||
| Freeway | Matthew Bright | Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Brooke Shields | Drama | |
| Frequent Flyer | Jack Wagner, Joan Severance | Drama | TV | |
| The Frighteners | Peter Jackson | Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado | Horror | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn | Robert Rodriguez | George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Fred Williamson, Cheech Marin | Horror | |
| Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo | ||||
| The Funeral | Abel Ferrara | Christopher Walken, Chris Penn | Drama | |
| Gang in Blue | Melvin van Peebles | Mario van Peebles, Josh Brolin | Drama | |
| Generation X | Jack Sholder | Matt Frewer, Finola Hughes | Action | TV |
| Get on the Bus | Spike Lee | Charles S. Dutton, Ossie Davis, Andre Braugher | Drama | |
| Getting Away with Murder | Harvey Miller | Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin | Comedy | |
| The Ghost and the Darkness | Stephen Hopkins | Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas | Adventure | written by William Goldman |
| Ghosts of Mississippi | Rob Reiner | Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods | Biopic | based on Medgar Evers murder |
| Giant Mine | TV | |||
| Girl 6 | Spike Lee | Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington | Drama | |
| Girls Town | Jim McKay | Lili Taylor | Drama | |
| The Glimmer Man | John Gray | Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans | Action | |
| Gone in the Night | Shannen Doherty, Kevin Dillon | Drama | TV | |
| Gotti | Armand Assante, Anthony Quinn | Drama | TV | |
| Grace of My Heart | Allison Anders | Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, John Turturro | Drama | |
| The Grave | Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar | Drama | ||
| Gray's Anatomy | Steven Soderbergh | Spalding Gray | Monologue | |
| The Great White Hype | Reginald Hudlin | Damon Wayans, Peter Berg, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson | Comedy |
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