| Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | drama film, trial film, musical film |
| April Captains | Maria de Medeiros | drama film, historical film |
| Katja's Adventure | Lars Hesselholdt | family film, comedy film |
| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| In the Beginning There Was Underwear | Anna Negri | comedy film |
| The Red Violin | François Girard | romance film, mystery film, drama film, musical film, crime film |
| The Barber of Siberia | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, historical film, comedy drama |
| All I Wanna Do | Sarah Kernochan | coming-of-age film, comedy film, female buddy film |
| Cindy | Luca Damiano | romance film, pornographic film |
| Caligola: Follia del potere | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | romance film, drama film |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | drama film |
| Only You | Norman Jewison | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film |
| The Silence of the Hams | Ezio Greggio | comedy film, horror film |
| Fiorile | Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani | drama film |
| Cliffhanger | Renny Harlin | survival film, action film, thriller film |
| Mafia Docks | Andrea Marfori | drama film, crime film |
| Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | drama film, tragicomedy, biographical film, comedy drama |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | drama film, historical drama |
| The Gold Rimmed Glasses | Giuliano Montaldo | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Cry Freedom | Richard Attenborough | drama film, biographical film |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, comedy drama |
| The Family | Ettore Scola | drama film |
| Specters | Marcello Avallone | horror film |
| The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| The Berlin Affair | Liliana Cavani | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Landscape in White | Gianni Lepre | — |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | drama film, adventure film, biographical film |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film |
| Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Miklós Jancsó | drama film |
| Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | cannibal film, horror film, zombie film, slasher film |
| Frankenstein: Italian Style | Armando Crispino | comedy film, comedy horror, erotic film |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film |
| Oh dolci baci e languide carezze | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, sex film |
| The Mountain of the Cannibal God | Sergio Martino | cannibal film, horror film |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film |
| Act of Aggression | Gérard Pirès | drama film, crime film |
| Fantozzi | Luciano Salce | comedy film |
| Deep Red | Dario Argento | romance film, exploitation film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, mystery film, romantic horror film, drama film, giallo, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film+4 |
| Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women | Alfonso Brescia | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Chinese in Paris | Jean Yanne | comedy film |
| Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia | Franco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | comedy film, treasure hunt film, adventure film, crime film |
| Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Robert Lamoureux | comedy film |