| Claire's Knee | Éric Rohmer | romance film, art film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | France |
| Crescendo | Alan Gibson | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Dancer of City | Shapoor Gharib | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Dokhtar-e zalem-bala | Azizaleh Bahadori | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| En un lugar de La Manga | Mariano Ozores | musical film | Spain |
| Fadime | Türker İnanoğlu | romantic comedy film, Filmfarsi | Turkey, Iran |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | drama film, road movie | United States |
| Gamera vs. Jiger | Bret Morrison, Noriaki Yuasa | fantasy film | Japan |
| Getting Straight | Richard Rush | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Golden Eagle | Kamal Danesh | — | Iran |
| Güzel Şoför | Mehmet Bozkuş, Mahmoud Koushan | romance film, drama film | Turkey, Iran |
| Heads for Sale | Jeong Chang-hwa | — | Hong Kong |
| Hoffman | Alvin Rakoff | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| I theia mou, i hipissa | Alekos Sakellarios | comedy film | Greece |
| Josefine Mutzenbacher | Kurt Nachmann | comedy film, sex comedy | Germany |
| Julius Caesar | Stuart Burge | drama film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Jumping Over Puddles | Karel Kachyňa | drama film, family film, children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
| Leyli and Majnoon | Siamak Yasemi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Man and Wife | Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli | comedy film, anthology film | Italy |
| Mujo | Akio Jissōji | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Musik, Musik - da wackelt die Penne | Franz Antel | comedy film | Germany |
| On the Comet | Jan Procházka, Karel Zeman | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film | Czechoslovakia |
| Passing Through Moscow | Ilya Gurin | romance film, anthology film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Selahattin Eyyubi | Süreyya Duru | war film, biographical film | Turkey, Iran |
| Shirin va Farhad | Esmail Koushan | romance film, drama film, historical film | Turkey, Iran |
| Some Will, Some Won't | Duncan Wood | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Squeeze a Flower | Marc Daniels | comedy film | Australia |
| Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo | Toshiya Fujita | — | Japan |
| Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came | Hy Averback | comedy drama | United States |
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Sam Peckinpah | Western film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Boys in the Band | William Friedkin | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| The Butchers | Paulmichel Mielche | independent film | United States |
| The Cheyenne Social Club | Paul Helmick, Gene Kelly | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The City Jungle | Stavros Tsiolis | drama film | Greece |
| The Confession | Costa-Gavras | drama film, thriller film | France, Italy |
| The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | romance film, drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| The Molly Maguires | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| The Spring Heghnar | Arman Manaryan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Twelve Gold Medallions | Cheng Kang | action film | Hong Kong |
| The Wandering Swordsman | Chang Cheh | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Under the Bazaar | Reza Safaei | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Ventriloquio | Carmelo Bene | — | Italy |
| Visa teisybė apie Kolumbą | Vytautas Žalakevičius | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | comedy drama | United States |