| Oilspot and Lipstick | Michael Cedeno | animated film | United States |
| The Devil's Disciple | David Hugh Jones | romance film, drama film, comedy film, war film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Tears Are Not Enough | John Zaritsky | music documentary film | Canada |
| Mischief | Mel Damski | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, comedy film | United States |
| Body Girls | Bob Chinn | sport film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| The Slim Dusty Movie | Rob Stewart | biographical film, musical film | Australia |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Anarchism in America | Joel Sucher, Steven Fischler | documentary film | United States |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear | — | animated film | Australia |
| Kentucky Woman | Walter Doniger | drama film | United States |
| And Now the Screaming Starts! | Roy Ward Baker | horror film, ghost film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| 40 Carats | Milton Katselas | romantic comedy | United States |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | documentary film | United States |
| Full Circle | Richard Loncraine | horror film, ghost film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Montenegro | Dušan Makavejev | drama film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, Sweden |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | horror film | Australia |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | comedy horror, thriller film, slasher film | United States |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | drama film | Germany, Israel |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| Daffy Duck's Easter Show | Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | thriller film, heist film | United Kingdom |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | drama film, heist film | Canada |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | comedy drama | United States |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | coming-of-age film, drama film | Canada |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, Western film, children's film | United States |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | mystery film | United States |
| Pretty Peaches | Alex de Renzy | pornographic film | United States |
| Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | drama film | Poland |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | fantasy film, adventure film, musical film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Piranha | Joe Dante | horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | American football film, fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | drama film, independent film, prison film, biographical film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Weekend of Shadows | Tom Jeffrey | — | Australia |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | comedy film, children's film, adventure film, heist film | United Kingdom, United States |