| Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | drama film, independent film, prison film, biographical film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Weekend of Shadows | Tom Jeffrey | — | Australia |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | action film, thriller film, crime film | France, Italy |
| Olga | Markku Onttonen | drama film | Finland |
| Acı Hatıralar | Iraj Ghaderi, Atıf Yılmaz | drama film, Filmfarsi, musical film | Turkey, Iran |
| Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | comedy film, children's film, adventure film, heist film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Animal | Claude Zidi | comedy film, action film | France |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Last Wave | Peter Weir | horror film, science fiction film, disaster film | Australia |
| How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder | Nadezhda Kosheverova | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Rudin | Konstantin Voinov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a President | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | drama film, horror film, ghost film | United States |
| Oczy uroczne | Piotr Szulkin | horror film | Poland |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Racha, my love | Joseph Medved, Temur Palavandishvili | romance film, comedy film | Georgian SSR, Czechoslovakia |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Super Inframan | Hua Shan | martial arts film, superhero film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | British Hong Kong |
| Birds of Our Hopes | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | — | Soviet Union |
| Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife | Grigori Melik-Avakyan | music-themed film | Soviet Union |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | American football film, mystery film, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, disaster film | United States |
| Akuma no temari-uta | Kon Ichikawa | — | Japan |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | art film, drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, mecha | Japan |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| Nickelodeon | Peter Bogdanovich | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Practical Joke | Vladimir Menshov | teen film, romantic drama film, melodrama, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Golden River | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Freaky Friday | Gary Nelson | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film | United States |
| I Want the Floor | Gleb Panfilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Do not Trick, Pretty | Saeed Motalebi | — | Iran |
| ...And Other Officials | Semyon Aranovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | coming-of-age film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, teen film, drama film, melodrama, horror film, thriller film, supernatural horror film | United States |
| The Rat Savior | Krsto Papić | horror film, science fiction film | Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| The Last Victim | Pyotr Todorovsky | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Odysseus und die Sterne | Ludvík Ráža | mystery film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Czechoslovakia |