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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Richard Briers | Drama | William Shakespeare play |
| Happy Gilmore | Dennis Dugan | Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald | Comedy | |
| Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson | Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow | Drama | Anderson's first film |
| Harriet the Spy | Bronwen Hughes | Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell | Family, Mystery | from Louise Fitzhugh story |
| Heaven's Prisoners | Phil Joanou | Alec Baldwin, Teri Hatcher, Eric Roberts, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson | Crime drama | from James Lee Burke novel |
| Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam | Nick Broomfield | Documentary | ||
| Hellraiser: Bloodline | "Alan Smithee" | Bruce Ramsay | Horror | |
| High School High | Hart Bochner | Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher | Comedy | |
| Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | David R. Ellis | voices of Sally Field, Michael J. Fox | Family | Homeward Bound sequel |
| House Arrest | Harry Winer | Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Walston | Comedy | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale | voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline | Animated | based on Victor Hugo story |
| Hustler White | Rick Castro, Bruce LeBruce | Drama | ||
| Hype! | Doug Pray | Documentary | ||
| I Love You, I Love You Not | Billy Hopkins | Jeanne Moreau, Jude Law, Claire Danes | Drama | |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton | Drama | |
| I'm Not Rappaport | Herb Gardner | Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Martha Plimpton | Drama | based on Herb Gardner play |
| If Lucy Fell | Eric Schaeffer | Sarah Jessica Parker, Elle Macpherson | Romantic comedy | |
| If These Walls Could Talk | Nancy Savoca, Cher | Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, Cher | Drama | made for TV |
| In Cold Blood | Jonathan Kaplan | Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill | Crime drama | made for TV; based on the novel by Truman Capote |
| In Love and War | Richard Attenborough | Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell | Drama | story of Ernest Hemingway |
| Independence Day | Roland Emmerich | Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Margaret Colin, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Vivica A. Fox, Harry Connick, Jr. | Disaster, Sci-Fi | 1996's top-grossing film |
| Infinity | Matthew Broderick | Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette | Biopic | story of Richard Feynman |
| Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | Maggie Cheung | Drama | France |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | John Frankenheimer | Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk | Horror | based on H.G. Wells story; 6 Razzie nominations |
| It's My Party | Randal Kleiser | Eric Roberts, Olivia Newton-John, Margaret Cho | Drama | |
| Jack | Francis Ford Coppola | Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Bill Cosby | Comedy, Drama | |
| Jake's Women | Alan Alda | Comedy | TV | |
| James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | Animated | based on Roald Dahl story | |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt, Anna Paquin | Drama | based on Charlotte Bronte novel |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Jay Mohr, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell | Comedy, Drama | Academy Award for Gooding |
| Jimmy Zip | Alyssa Milano | Short subject | ||
| Jingle All the Way | Brian Levant | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Jake Lloyd, James Belushi | Comedy, Family | 20th Century Fox |
| Joe's Apartment | John Payson | Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward | Comedy | |
| Johns | Scott Silver | Lukas Haas, David Arquette | Drama | |
| The Juror | Brian Gibson | Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Gandolfini, Anne Heche, Lindsay Crouse | Crime drama | from George Dawes Green novel |
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