| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | drama film, war film | Taiwan |
| First Time Married | Iosif Kheifits | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Philippe de Broca | comedy film | France |
| The Lifeguard | Sergei Solovyov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film | France, Sweden |
| Petrovka, 38 | Boris Grigoryev | detective film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Frankenstein: Italian Style | Armando Crispino | comedy film, comedy horror, erotic film | Italy |
| Romance on Lushan Mountain | Huang Zumo | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| Kind Men | Karen Shakhnazarov | satirical film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film | Italy |
| Pogonya v stepi | Abdulla Karsakbayev | historical film, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | comedy horror, thriller film, slasher film | United States |
| Air Crew | Alexander Mitta | disaster film | Soviet Union |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | drama film | Germany, Israel |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| The Wife Has Left | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Daffy Duck's Easter Show | Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| 1941 | Steven Spielberg | screwball comedy film, Christmas film, war film | United States |
| Întoarcerea lui Voda Lapusneanu | Malvina Urșianu | historical film | Romania |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur | Hiroshi Fukutomi | science fiction | Japan |
| Evening Rain | Wu Yonggang, Wu Yigong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Us Two | Claude Lelouch | drama film | France, Canada |
| Pani Mariya | Natalya Troshchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Rape Ceremony | Kichitarō Negishi | pink film | Japan |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, detective film, crime film | Germany, United States, West Germany |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Oh dolci baci e languide carezze | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, sex film | Italy |
| The Concorde ... Airport '79 | David Lowell Rich | drama film, action film, disaster film | United States |
| The Rabbit Case | Jaromil Jireš | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | thriller film, heist film | United Kingdom |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | drama film, heist film | Canada |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | drama film, flashback film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Dracula | John Badham | romance film, drama film, horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | comedy drama | United States |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Goin' South | Jack Nicholson | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The Mountain of the Cannibal God | Sergio Martino | cannibal film, horror film | Italy |
| The Frisco Kid | Robert Aldrich | comedy film, Western film, buddy film | United States |
| Little Valentino | András Jeles | drama film | Hungary |