| Our Miss Fred | Bob Kellett | LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Martin Ritt | LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| Straight On till Morning | Peter Collinson | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | drama film | Italy |
| Trouble Man | Ivan Dixon | blaxploitation film | United States |
| Up the Sandbox | Irvin Kershner | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| A Gunfight | Lamont Johnson | Western film | United States |
| A Lady Called Camille | — | documentary film | United States |
| Black Beauty | James Hill | drama film, family film, children's film | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain |
| Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Michael Carreras, Seth Holt | fantasy film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Cry Uncle! | John G. Avildsen | comedy film | United States |
| Death of a Legend | Bill Mason | nature documentary | Canada |
| Demented Death Farm Massacre | Fred Olen Ray | horror film | United States |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | drama film | United States |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | drama film, basketball film | United States |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | drama film, science fiction film | United States |
| If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? | Ron Ormond | dystopian film | United States |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| On the Buses | Harry Booth | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim | comedy film, comedy thriller, detective film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | drama film, horror film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | drama film, heist film, crime film | United States |
| The Battle of Love's Return | Lloyd Kaufman | comedy film | United States |
| The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, action film, horror film, dystopian film, zombie film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| The Raging Moon | Bryan Forbes | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Todd Killings | Barry Shear | drama film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| To Catch a Spy | Dick Clement | spy film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Valdez Is Coming | Edwin Sherin | Western film | United States |
| Welcome to the Club | Walter Shenson | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan, Maury Dexter | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film | United States |
| Brewster McCloud | Robert Altman | comedy drama | United States |
| Brother, Cry for Me | William White | independent film | United States |
| Crescendo | Alan Gibson | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | drama film, road movie | United States |
| Getting Straight | Richard Rush | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Hoffman | Alvin Rakoff | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Julius Caesar | Stuart Burge | drama film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Some Will, Some Won't | Duncan Wood | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Squeeze a Flower | Marc Daniels | comedy film | Australia |
| Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came | Hy Averback | comedy drama | United States |