| The Profession of Arms | Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | documentary film | Canada |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | Philippe Mora | superhero film, musical film | Australia |
| The Story Shouldn't Had Happend | Zhang Hui | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Troe na shosse | Anatoly Bobrovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Two of a Kind | John Herzfeld | fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Under the Bridge | Chen Bai | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Unico nell'isola della magia | — | animated film | Japan |
| Édith et Marcel | Claude Lelouch | comedy drama | France |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film | Gabon, France, Germany |
| A Pool Without Water | Kōji Wakamatsu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| A Stranger Is Watching | Sean S. Cunningham | horror film | United States |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York | Stanislav Látal | puppet film, drama film, animated film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film | France |
| Author! Author! | Arthur Hiller | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Battletruck | Harley Cokeliss | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States, New Zealand |
| Better Late Than Never | Bryan Forbes | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Bheegi Palkein | Sisir Mishra | — | India |
| Blood Song | Alan J. Levi | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Bolero | Rüdiger Nüchtern | melodrama | Germany, Switzerland, West Germany |
| Breathless | Mady Saks | drama film | Netherlands |
| Cat vs. Rat | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Constellation of Rifleman | Juris Podnieks | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film | United States |
| Devata | K. Raghavendra Rao | drama film | India |
| Doubles | Leo Karpin | comedy film, melodrama, musical film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Dykhanie grozy | Viktor Turov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | mystery film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat | Savva Kulish | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today | Helena Solberg | documentary film | United States |
| Gikor | Sergei Israelyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | drama film | Italy |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | documentary film | France |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, detective film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| I Don't Want to Be an Adult | Yuri Chulyukin | comedy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Il tifoso | Pier Francesco Pingitore | comedy film, association football film | Italy |
| Inspector Losev | — | detective film | Soviet Union |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film | France |
| Las orgías inconfesables de Emmanuelle | Jesús Franco | erotic film | Spain |
| My Family | Pēteris Krilovs | — | Soviet Union |
| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Henry Jaglom, Bob Giraldi | parody film | United States |
| Once Upon a Dog | Eduard Nazarov | comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| One True Love | Mark Osepyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Semero soldatikov | Eduard Bocharov | family film | Soviet Union |
| Seven Beauties | Felix Slidovker | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Sitadevi | — | — | India |
| Stella | Thomas Langhoff | — | East Germany |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | drama film | Soviet Union |