| Lifeguard | Daniel Petrie | drama film | United States |
| Project: Kill | William Girdler | action film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Sweeney! | David Wickes | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Likely Lads | Michael Tuchner | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain | documentary film | Canada |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Claude Whatham | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Philippe Mora | documentary film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bugs Bunny: Superstar | Robert McKimson, Larry Jackson, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett | documentary film | United States |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | drama film | Canada |
| Smile | Michael Ritchie | comedy drama | United States |
| Supercock | Gus Trikonis | independent film | United States |
| The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables | — | — | United States |
| The Return of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | comedy film, heist film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Deadly Strangers | Sidney Hayers | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| Deranged | Alan Ormsby | horror film, comedy horror, crime film | Canada, United States |
| Earthquake | Mark Robson | drama film, action film, thriller film, disaster film | United States |
| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | girls with guns, action film, vigilante film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | documentary film | United States |
| Hot Summer in Barefoot County | Will Zens | thriller film | United States |
| Huckleberry Finn | J. Lee Thompson | musical film | United States |
| The Devil Is a Woman | Damiano Damiani | drama film, satanic film | United Kingdom, Italy |
| The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | American football film, action film, prison film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | political thriller film, drama film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| W | Richard Quine | thriller film | United States |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | drama film | United States |
| Bang the Drum Slowly | John D. Hancock | drama film | United States |
| Battle for the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Fielder Cook | children's film | United States |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | action film, spy film, blaxploitation film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love Thy Neighbour | John Robins | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width | Ronnie Baxter | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States |
| The All-American Boy | Charles K. Eastman | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| The Final Programme | Robert Fuest | drama film, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, dystopian film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United Kingdom |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | action film, neo-noir | United States |
| The House in Nightmare Park | Peter Sykes | comedy horror | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The National Health | Jack Gold | black comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Twister! | — | documentary film | United States |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Medak | comedy drama | United Kingdom |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Charlton Heston | historical drama | United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland |
| Blood of Ghastly Horror | Al Adamson | horror film | United States |
| Daddy's Deadly Darling | Marc Lawrence | horror film | United States |
| Deep Throat | Gerard Damiano | pornographic film | United States |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest | fantasy film, horror film, comedy horror | United Kingdom, United States |
| Fear in the Night | Jimmy Sangster | horror film, psychological horror fiction | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | Robert Bolt | biographical film | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Night of the Cobra Woman | Andrew Meyer | exploitation film, horror film | United States |