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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk Radio | Oliver Stone | Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene | Drama | based on Bogosian's play |
| Tapeheads | Bill Fishman | Tim Robbins, John Cusack | Comedy | |
| Tequila Sunrise | Robert Towne | Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
| They Live | John Carpenter | Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster | Horror, Comedy | based on Ray Nelson story |
| The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | (interviews) | Documentary | |
| Time Is Money | Animated | made for TV | ||
| A Time of Destiny | Gregory Nava | William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo | Drama | based on Verdi opera |
| Tin Toy | John Lasseter | Animated | Oscar winner | |
| Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | Drama | |||
| Too Good to Be True | Christian I. Nyby, II | Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy | Drama | TV |
| Torch Song Trilogy | Paul Bogart | Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick | Comedy, Drama | based on Fierstein's play |
| Tougher Than Leather | Rick Rubin | Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels | Action | |
| Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Francis Ford Coppola | Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Lloyd Bridges | Drama, Biopic | Golden Globe for Landau |
| Twins | Ivan Reitman | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito | Comedy | Universal |
| Two Moon Junction | Zalman King | Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Kristy McNichol, Louise Fletcher | Drama | Lorimar |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint | Drama | based on Milan Kundera novel |
| The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II | Comedy | sequel | ||
| A Very Brady Christmas | Peter Baldwin | Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann B. Davis | Comedy | based on The Brady Bunch |
| Vibes | Ken Kwapis | Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum | Comedy | |
| Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert | Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage | Comedy | |
| Victim of the Brain | Drama | |||
| War Party | Franc Roddam | Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon | Drama | |
| War and Remembrance | Dan Curtis | Robert Mitchum, John Gielgud, Polly Bergen, Jane Seymour, Barry Bostwick, Hart Bochner, E.G. Marshall, Sharon Stone | Drama, War | based on novel by Herman Wouk; sequel to Winds of War |
| Watchers | Corey Haim | Drama | ||
| Waxwork | Anthony Hickox | Deborah Foreman, Zach Galligan | Horror | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | Bob Hoskins, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Lloyd | Comedy | based on Gary K. Wolf novel |
| Willow | Ron Howard | Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Billy Barty | Fantasy | |
| Willy the Sparrow | Drama | |||
| Witchcraft | Rob Spera | Drama | ||
| Working Girl | Mike Nichols | Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn | Comedy | four Golden Globe awards |
| Young Guns | Christopher Cain | Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko | Western | story of Billy the Kid; followed by Young Guns II |
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