| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | drama film, historical film | France, Italy |
| The English Waltz | Gytis Lukšas | — | Soviet Union |
| The Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Rooks | Konstantin Yershov | mystery film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Scorpion with Two Tails | Sergio Martino | horror film | Italy |
| The Tereon’s Head | Varis Brasla | drama film, family film | Soviet Union |
| The Uncouth Ones | Osman F. Seden | — | Turkey |
| Trail of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | comedy film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| True of Lieutenant Klimov | Oleg Dashkevich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Vasiliy Buslaev | Gennady Vasilyev | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Yes, Giorgio | Franklin J. Schaffner | musical film, romantic comedy | United States, Italy |
| 7 calles | Javier Rebollo, Juan Marino Ortuoste Blanco | comedy film | Spain |
| Alexander The Small | Vladimir Fokin | drama film, war film | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| An Intimate Story | Nadav Levitan | drama film | Israel |
| And I'm with you again... | Boris Galanter | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Automobile on the Roof | Dmitri Kesayants | — | Soviet Union |
| Calm | Vitaliy Chetverikov | — | Soviet Union |
| Crazy Fruit | Kichitarō Negishi | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Devushka i more | — | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | drama film, biographical film | France, Germany, Austria |
| Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott | Mary Benjamin | documentary film | United States |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film, prison film | United States |
| Facts of the Past Day | Vladimir Basov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Game of Death II | Ng See-yuen | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| History of the World, Part I | Mel Brooks | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Honky Tonk Freeway | John Schlesinger | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Huie's Sermon | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| In-Laws | Zhao Huanzhang | family drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | drama film | France |
| Letter from BAM | Temur Palavandishvili | adventure film | Georgian SSR |
| Little Bear | Vyacheslav Prokopenko | family film | Soviet Union |
| My, nizhepodpisavshiyesya | Tatyana Lioznova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Nanchang Uprising | Tang Xiaodan | war drama, historical film | People's Republic of China |
| Night School | Ken Hughes | horror film, thriller film, slasher film | United States |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | action film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Nothing to Hide | Anthony Spinelli | romance film, drama film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Office Lady Rope Slave | — | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Old Letters | Anatolii Ivanov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Otpusk za svoy schyot | Viktor Titov, János Bujtás | comedy film | Soviet Union, Hungary |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | romance film, drama film, satanic film, musical film | United States |
| Pierino contro tutti | Marino Girolami | comedy film | Italy |
| Play Dead | Peter Wittman | horror film | United States |
| Polvo rojo | Jesús Díaz | — | Cuba |
| Pridut strasti-mordasti | Ernest Yasan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Provincial Romance (1981 film) | Melis Ubukeyev | — | Soviet Union |
| Radha Kalyanam | Bapu | — | India |
| Raggedy Man | Jack Fisk | drama film | United States |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | action film, treasure hunt film | United States |