| Dieu vomit les tièdes | Robert Guédiguian | drama film |
| Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | drama film, biographical film |
| The Siege of Venice | Giorgio Ferrara | comedy film |
| The Yes Man | Daniele Luchetti | drama film |
| Foutaises | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | comedy film |
| My Mother's Castle | Yves Robert | comedy drama |
| Overseas | Brigitte Roüan | drama film |
| The Palermo Connection | Francesco Rosi | thriller film |
| Divine enfant | Jean-Pierre Mocky | comedy film |
| Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre | Denis Amar | drama film, biographical film |
| Life and Nothing But | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film |
| Mano rubata | Alberto Lattuada | — |
| Splendor | Ettore Scola | drama film |
| The Hostage of Europe | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | historical film, biographical film |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | drama film |
| The Revolving Doors | Francis Mankiewicz | drama film |
| A Man in Love | Diane Kurys | drama film |
| Agosto | Jorge Silva Melo | drama film |
| Avril brisé | Liria Bégéja | drama film |
| Jenatsch | Daniel Schmid | drama film, fantasy film |
| Les mois d'avril sont meurtriers | Laurent Heynemann | crime film |
| Captive | Paul Mayersberg | thriller film |
| Les folles années du twist | Mahmoud Zemmouri | comedy film |
| Nightmare Weekend | Henri Sala | horror film |
| The Photograph | Nikos Papatakis | drama film |
| Adieu Bonaparte | Youssef Chahine | drama film, war film |
| Subway | Luc Besson | romance film, comedy thriller |
| L'Amour à mort | Alain Resnais | drama film |
| No Rest for Billy Brakko | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | animated short film |
| The Blood of Others | Claude Chabrol | drama film, war film |
| Édith et Marcel | Claude Lelouch | comedy drama |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | documentary film |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film |
| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | drama film, historical film |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | drama film, biographical film |
| Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | drama film |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | mystery film, drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, crime film |
| A Summer in the Country | Roberto Girometti | comedy film, sex film |
| A Week's Vacation | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film |
| Programmed for Pleasure | Claude Mulot | pornographic film |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | drama film, comedy film, erotic film, biographical film |
| Tous vedettes! | Michel Lang | — |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | drama film, vampire film |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | drama film, biographical film |
| La Carapate | Gérard Oury | comedy film |
| Marée noire et colère rouge | René Vautier | documentary film |