| Programmed for Pleasure | Claude Mulot | pornographic film | France |
| Punnami Naagu | Rajashekar | horror film | India |
| Ripe Strawberries | — | comedy film, short film | United States |
| Rough Cut | Robert Ellis Miller, Don Siegel | mystery film, heist film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński | — | Poland |
| Tanya's Island | Alfred Sole | drama film, fantasy film | Canada, United States |
| Teddy Bear | Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Polish People's Republic |
| Thanassis, Tighten Your Belt Some More | Thodoros Maragos | drama film, comedy film | Greece |
| The Cheeky Chap | Yung-Chang Li | comedy film | Hong Kong |
| The Department | Brian Bell | — | Australia |
| The Fairfax Millions | Nikolai Ilyinsky | crime film | Soviet Union |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | drama film, comedy film, erotic film, biographical film | France |
| The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Night the City Screamed | Harry Falk | drama film | United States |
| The Orion Loop | Vasili Levin | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Raven's Dance | Markku Lehmuskallio | drama film | Finland |
| The Space Movie | Tony Palmer | documentary film | United States |
| The Star Inspector (1980) | Vladimir Polin, Mark Kovalyov | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Times Square | Allan Moyle | lesbian-related film, teen film, queer film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Tous vedettes! | Michel Lang | — | France |
| Vacation in Prostokvashino | Vladimir Popov | family film, fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Allegro s ognyom | Vladimir Strelkov | historical film, action film, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Mark Zakharov | romantic comedy film, satirical film, fantasy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic fantasy | Soviet Union |
| Ball Lightning | Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Blue Carbuncle | Nikolay Lukyanov | detective film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey | children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Camera Buff | Krzysztof Kieślowski | drama film | Poland |
| Chapter Two | Robert Moore | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Companys, procés a Catalunya | Josep Maria Forn | drama film, period drama film | Spain |
| Coriolanus | Wilford Leach | drama film | United States |
| Cossacks-Robbers | Valentin Kozachkov | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Cubit-Cubitan | Maman Firmansjah | drama film | Indonesia |
| De försvunna | Sergio Castilla | drama film | Cuba, Sweden |
| Dikaya okhota korolya Stakha | Valeri Rubinchik | drama film, mysticism | Soviet Union |
| Expertos en Pinchazos | Hugo Sofovich | comedy film | Argentina |
| Family Circle | — | family film | Soviet Union |
| Faratyev's Fantasies | Ilya Averbakh | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| G.I. Samurai | Kōsei Saitō | samurai cinema, kung fu film, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Hanging by a Thread | Georg Fenady | disaster film | United States |
| Iddaru Asadhyule | K. S. R. Das | — | India |
| Kaala Patthar | Yash Chopra | drama film, action film, disaster film | India |
| Karthika Deepam | Lakshmi Deepak | — | India |
| Live Long | Frunze Dovlatyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | drama film | India |
| Magnificent Butcher | Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Moy pervyy drug | Yakov Bazelyan | family film | Soviet Union |
| Mueda, Memória e Massacre | Ruy Guerra | drama film | Mozambique |
| Murmansk-198 | Arnold Altmäe | documentary film | Soviet Union |