| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | coming-of-age film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, teen film, drama film, melodrama, horror film, thriller film, supernatural horror film | United States |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Australia |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Melvin Frank | Western film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| No Deposit, No Return | Norman Tokar | heist film | United States |
| Ride a Wild Pony | Don Chaffey | — | United States, Australia |
| Teenage Masseuse | Ralph Ell | drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | political thriller film, drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Framed | Phil Karlson | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang | Norman Tokar | comedy film, Western film, children's film | United States |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | mystery film | United States |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | science fiction horror film, natural horror film, suspense film, survival film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Nashville | Robert Altman | drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Posse | Kirk Douglas | Western film, action film | United States |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | crime film | United States |
| The Fortune | Mike Nichols | comedy film, screwball comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Capone | Steve Carver | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Night Moves | Arthur Penn | mystery film, crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | drama film, historical film, war film | United Kingdom |
| The Front Page | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | gothic horror film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film, parody film | United States |
| The Land That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Internecine Project | Ken Hughes | spy film, thriller film | United Kingdom, Germany, Australia |
| Let's Relax Shorts Program | — | family film, traditionally animated film, compilation film | United States |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner | spy film | United States |
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | John Hough | drama film, action film, heist film | United States |
| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Terence Fisher | horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | action film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | drama film, action film, sexploitation film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, women in prison film | British Hong Kong |
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Gordon Hessler | sword and sorcery film, monster film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, medieval film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Antonio Margheriti | body horror film, science fiction film | France, United States, Italy |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Alan Gibson | horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | drama film, action film, crime thriller film, heist film | United States |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | gangster film, crime film | United States |
| One Little Indian | Bernard McEveety | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Dillinger | John Milius | heist film, crime film | United States |
| Scalawag | Kirk Douglas, Zoran Čalić | pirate film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Charley and the Angel | Vincent McEveety | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Snowball Express | Norman Tokar | comedy film | United States |