| Gamín | Ciro Durán | documentary film | Colombia |
| Goodness | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Hatred | Samvel Gasparov | action film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Incognito from St. Petersburg | Leonid Gaidai | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Last Year of Berkut | Vadim Lysenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Les Ambassadeurs | Naceur Ktari | drama film | France |
| Love at First Sight | Rezo Esadze | comedy film | Georgian SSR |
| Mr. Etemad's Trouble | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Naval Commandos | Chang Cheh, Wu Ma | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| On Thursday and Never Again | Anatoly Efros | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Pendekar | M. Amin | — | Malaysia |
| Po semeynym obstoyatelstvam | Aleksey Korenev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Shab-e aftabi | Sirus Alvand | — | Iran |
| Stone Valley | — | — | Soviet Union |
| The Apple Game | Věra Chytilová | drama film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | drama film, children's film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Brave Archer | Chang Cheh | fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | mystery film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| The Hunters | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film | France, Greece |
| The Miracle Voice of Gelsomino | Tamara Lisitsian | cinematic fairy tale, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Pack | Robert Clouse | horror film | United States |
| The Report | Abbas Kiarostami | drama film | Iran |
| The Three Superboys in the Snow | Natuk Baytan, Ernst Hofbauer | comedy film | Italy, Turkey |
| The Uncanny | Denis Héroux | mystery film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Word of Truth | Nezam Fatemi | — | Iran |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Şefer Sözü | Osman F. Seden | drama film | Turkey |
| A Pacemaker and a Sidecar | André Forcier | — | Canada |
| A Technical Malfunction | Nosratollah Vahdat | comedy film | Iran |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, historical film, crime film | United States |
| Awake in the City | Iraj Ghaderi | crime film | Iran |
| Bernie and the Gang | Marcel Carrière | — | Canada |
| Blue Belle | Massimo Dallamano | coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film | United Kingdom, Italy, Australia |
| Brunet Will Call | Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Poland |
| Chelcheragh (Chandelier) | Khosrow Parvizi | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Circus in the Circus | Oldřich Lipský | family film, comedy film | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
| Death Under Sail | Ada Neretniece | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Delivery | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Soviet Union |
| East End Hustle | Frank Vitale | drama film | Canada |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — | Australia |
| Escape from the Dark | Charles Jarrott | drama film, children's film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Feelin' Up | David Secter | independent film | United States |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron | action film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Goluboy portret | — | — | Soviet Union |
| House of Pleasure for Women | Pupi Avati | comedy film | Italy |
| I Am Self Sufficient | — | comedy film | Italy |
| In the Region of Ice | Peter Werner | drama film | United States |