| Moonlight on Second Spring | Yan Jizhou | biographical drama film | People's Republic of China |
| A Commuter Kind of Love | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | drama film | Norway |
| Kronprinsen | Pål Bang-Hansen | drama film | Norway |
| Drunken Master | Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | drama film | Germany |
| Autumn Marathon | Georgiy Daneliya | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | coming-of-age film, drama film | Canada |
| Ji Hong Chang | Li Guanghui, Qi Xing-Jia | war drama, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | drama film, historical film, adventure film, medieval film, war film, biographical film, epic film | Libya, Morocco |
| The 36th Chamber of Shaolin | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Angel Guts | — | exploitation film, pink film | Japan |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, Western film, children's film | United States |
| Brácha za vsechny penize | Stanislav Strnad | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | arthouse science fiction film, art film, drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | art film, drama film | Germany |
| Woman Between Wolf and Dog | André Delvaux | drama film | France, Belgium |
| 21 Hours at Munich | William A. Graham | historical film | Germany |
| Late meeting | Vladimir Shredel | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Mad Max | George Miller | action film, dystopian film, thriller film, vigilante film | Australia |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Angry Man | Claude Pinoteau | drama film | France, Canada |
| Young Wife | Leonid Menaker | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| Kvinnene | Per Blom | drama film | Norway |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | mystery film | United States |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | romance film, drama film, flashback film | France |
| Bilet powrotny | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | drama film | Poland |
| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| Funny People | Mikhail Schweitzer | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Citizen Nikanorova Waits for You | Leonid Maryagin | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Pretty Peaches | Alex de Renzy | pornographic film | United States |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film | United States |
| Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | drama film | Poland |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | fantasy film, adventure film, musical film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Front Beyond the Front Line | Igor Gostev | drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | drama film | Norway |
| The Scarlet Flower | Irina Povolotskaya | romance film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | crime film | France |
| Olsenbanden og Data-Harry sprenger verdensbanken | Knut Bohwim | crime comedy film | Norway |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Piranha | Joe Dante | horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | romance film, drama film | United States |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | comedy film, concert film, docufiction | Sweden, Australia |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, action film, children's film | United States |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | American football film, fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Nathalie rescapée de l'enfer | Alain Payet | Nazi exploitation | France |