| Starfall | Igor Talankin | romance film, war film | Soviet Union |
| A Fairy Tale Told at Night | Irma Raush | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | drama film | Norway |
| For Your Eyes Only | John Glen | action film, spy film, thriller film | United Kingdom |
| A Labour of Sharing | Sylvie Van Brabant, Serge Giguère, Louise Dugal | documentary film | Canada |
| Julia Julia | Petter Vennerød, Svend Wam | comedy film | Norway |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | psychological thriller film, political thriller film, police procedural film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film+2 | United States |
| Prema Kanuka | K. Raghavendra Rao | drama film | India |
| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, adventure film, medieval film | United States, Australia |
| Seven Freckles | Herrmann Zschoche | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film | East Germany |
| The Proud Twins | Chor Yuen | martial arts film, Eastern, drama film, action film, film based on a novel | British Hong Kong |
| Montenegro | Dušan Makavejev | drama film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, Sweden |
| How To Say "GOOD BUY!" | — | educational film | — |
| Caveman | Carl Gottlieb | fantasy film, parody film | United States, Mexico |
| The Howling | Joe Dante | horror film, werewolf film | United States |
| Scenes from Life of People on Leave | Nikolai Gubenko | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | Irvin Kershner | mystery film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Thief | — | film noir, neo-noir, heist film, crime film | United States |
| Seems Like Old Times | Jay Sandrich | romantic comedy | United States |
| Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer | Hideo Nishimaki | — | Japan |
| El vicario de Olot | Ventura Pons | comedy film | Spain |
| Xanadu | Robert Greenwald | fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | cannibal film, horror film, zombie film, slasher film | Italy |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky | Aleksandr Zarkhi | romance film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Smokey and the Bandit II | Hal Needham | comedy film, action film | United States |
| Security Unlimited | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Onna kyōshi: yogoreta hōkago | Kichitarō Negishi | pink film, drama film | Japan |
| Bez milosci | Barbara Sass | drama film | Poland |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, jiangshi fiction, fantasy film, action film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
| Any Which Way You Can | Buddy Van Horn | comedy film, action film, buddy film, boxing film | United States |
| Far from Home | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | drama film | Germany, Iran |
| Late Dates | Vladimir Grigoryev | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| La provinciale | Claude Goretta | drama film | France, Switzerland |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | drama film, sexploitation film | Germany |
| The Awakening | Mike Newell | fantasy film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | drama film, comedy drama | Switzerland |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | exploitation film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, teen film, mystery film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film+1 | United States |
| Burlesque | René Cardona | musical film | Mexico |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| Fame | Alan Parker | teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Pilla Zamindar | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | comedy film | India |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film, supernatural horror film, psychological drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | horror film | Australia |
| Spotkanie na Atlantyku | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Dumbrava minunata | Gheorghe Naghi | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, musical film | Romania |
| A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, historical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |