| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | comedy horror, thriller film, slasher film |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film |
| Daffy Duck's Easter Show | Friz Freleng | — |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film |
| 1941 | Steven Spielberg | screwball comedy film, Christmas film, war film |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, detective film, crime film |
| The Concorde ... Airport '79 | David Lowell Rich | drama film, action film, disaster film |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | drama film, comedy film |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | drama film, flashback film, biographical film, musical film |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | comedy drama |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | adventure film, science fiction film |
| Goin' South | Jack Nicholson | comedy film, Western film |
| The Frisco Kid | Robert Aldrich | comedy film, Western film, buddy film |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, Western film, children's film |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | mystery film |
| Pretty Peaches | Alex de Renzy | pornographic film |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | fantasy film, adventure film, musical film, blaxploitation film |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama |
| Piranha | Joe Dante | horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | romance film, drama film |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, action film, children's film |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | American football film, fantasy film, romantic comedy |
| Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film, disaster film |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | drama film, independent film, prison film, biographical film, crime film |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film |
| Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | comedy film, children's film, adventure film, heist film |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | drama film, horror film, ghost film |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | American football film, mystery film, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, disaster film |
| Nickelodeon | Peter Bogdanovich | comedy film |
| Freaky Friday | Gary Nelson | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film |
| 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 |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film |