| My Anfisa | Eduard Gavrilov | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nakts bez putniem | Gunārs Cilinskis | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Neighbors | Valeri Ponomarev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Nevesta dlya brata | — | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | drama film, vampire film | France, Germany |
| Otello | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Porridge | Dick Clement | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Ratataplan | Maurizio Nichetti | comedy film | Italy |
| Return Day | Dzmitry Zaytsaw | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Rope and Skin | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film | Japan |
| Savage Weekend | David Paulsen | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, slasher film | United States |
| Someone Else's Happiness (1978 film) | Kamara Kamalova | psychological drama film | Soviet Union |
| Tailcoat for shalopaya | Eldor Urazbayev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Take Me With You | Boris Rytsarev | — | Soviet Union |
| Target | Guido Zurli | detective film | Italy, Turkey |
| Tear Stains | Li Wenhua | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Test Tube | — | television art, satire | — |
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | sport film, family film, children's film, adventure film | United States |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | drama film, biographical film | France |
| The Capture of Bigfoot | Bill Rebane | horror film | United States |
| The Eighth Day | Anders Grönros | drama film | Sweden |
| The Man to Destroy | Veljko Bulajić | speculative fiction film | Yugoslavia |
| The Rose | Mark Rydell | drama film, musical film | United States |
| The Vinchel Affair | Avraham Heffner | drama film | Israel |
| The Wooden Gun | Ilan Moshenson | teen film | Israel |
| Tsirkachonok | Vladimir Bychkov, Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | drama film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Ty pomnish? | Oleg Nikolayevsky | drama film, melodrama, war film | Soviet Union |
| Ultraman | Akio Jissōji | science fiction film | Japan |
| When you are twelve years old | Kanymbek-Kano Kasymbekov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś panie prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | historical film | Poland |
| 2 Champions of Shaolin | Chang Cheh | drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| A Dog walked along the Piano | Vladimir Grammatikov | teen film, romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| A Moment Decides Everything | Viktor Sadovsky | sport film | Soviet Union |
| American Hot Wax | Floyd Mutrux | biographical film | United States |
| Atonement for Others' Sins | Valerian Pidpaly | — | Soviet Union |
| Breathtaking | Mahmoud Koushan | action film, thriller film | Iran |
| Captain Harlock: Mystery of the Arcadia | Rintaro | space opera | Japan |
| Cheerleaders Beach Party | Alex E. Goitein | comedy film | United States |
| Children are like Children | Ayan Shakhmaliyeva | — | Soviet Union |
| Clan of Amazons | Chor Yuen | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | horror film, science fiction film, crime film | United States |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | drama film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| Corvette Summer | Matthew Robbins | teen film, comedy film | United States |
| Dawns Are Kissing | Sergei Nikonenko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Every Which Way but Loose | James Fargo | comedy film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| Happy Days | Orhan Aksoy | comedy film | Turkey |
| Hooper | Hal Needham | action film, action comedy film | United States |