| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | drama film, family film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Bør Børson II | Stein Roger Bull | comedy film, musical film | Norway |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Australia |
| Cantata de Chile | Humberto Solás | drama film | Cuba |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Gekitotsu! Wakadaishō | Tsugunobu Kotani | ice hockey film | Japan |
| The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Melvin Frank | Western film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World | Hiroshi Shidara | anime, fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga | Japan |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | historical film, biographical film | Polish People's Republic |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | Norway |
| Gilgames | András Rajnai | historical film, adventure film | Hungary |
| When September comes | Edmond Keosayan | family film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| No Deposit, No Return | Norman Tokar | heist film | United States |
| We Didn't Learn This | Ilya Frez | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ride a Wild Pony | Don Chaffey | — | United States, Australia |
| Ot zari do zari | Gabriel Egiazarov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Act of Aggression | Gérard Pirès | drama film, crime film | France, Italy |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | drama film, historical film | Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| The Bloody Escape | Sun Chung, Chang Cheh | — | British Hong Kong |
| The Change | Alfredo Joskowicz | drama film | Mexico |
| Alcoholism: Who Gets Hurt? | — | educational film | United States |
| Teenage Masseuse | Ralph Ell | drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | political thriller film, drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Framed | Phil Karlson | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Eiger Sanction | Clint Eastwood | action film, thriller film | United States |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | drama film | Germany |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang | Norman Tokar | comedy film, Western film, children's film | United States |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | mystery film | United States |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | science fiction horror film, natural horror film, suspense film, survival film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Nashville | Robert Altman | drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Cage | Pierre Granier-Deferre | drama film | France |
| Lady of the Law | — | — | British Hong Kong |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | drama film, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film, heist film | United States |
| Posse | Kirk Douglas | Western film, action film | United States |
| Wives | Anja Breien | comedy drama | Norway |
| The Prize Trap | István Dárday | comedy film | Hungary |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | crime film | United States |
| The Fortune | Mike Nichols | comedy film, screwball comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Los pájaros de Baden-Baden | Mario Camus | drama film | Spain, Switzerland |
| Front Without Flanks | Igor Gostev | partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Cruelty: Black Rose Torture | Katsuhiko Fujii | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Capone | Steve Carver | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | action film, disaster film | United Kingdom |
| Mothers and Daughters | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Fantozzi | Luciano Salce | comedy film | Italy |
| Tommy | Ken Russell | drama film, fantasy film, musical film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |