| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | girls with guns, action film, vigilante film, blaxploitation film |
| Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | documentary film |
| Hot Summer in Barefoot County | Will Zens | thriller film |
| Huckleberry Finn | J. Lee Thompson | musical film |
| The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film, musical film |
| The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | American football film, action film, prison film, comedy drama |
| The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | political thriller film, drama film |
| W | Richard Quine | thriller film |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | drama film |
| Bang the Drum Slowly | John D. Hancock | drama film |
| Battle for the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Fielder Cook | children's film |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | action film, spy film, blaxploitation film |
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film |
| The All-American Boy | Charles K. Eastman | drama film, boxing film |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | action film, neo-noir |
| Twister! | — | documentary film |
| Blood of Ghastly Horror | Al Adamson | horror film |
| Daddy's Deadly Darling | Marc Lawrence | horror film |
| Deep Throat | Gerard Damiano | pornographic film |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest | fantasy film, horror film, comedy horror |
| Night of the Cobra Woman | Andrew Meyer | exploitation film, horror film |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Martin Ritt | LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film |
| Trouble Man | Ivan Dixon | blaxploitation film |
| Up the Sandbox | Irvin Kershner | comedy film, musical film |
| A Gunfight | Lamont Johnson | Western film |
| A Lady Called Camille | — | documentary film |
| Cry Uncle! | John G. Avildsen | comedy film |
| Demented Death Farm Massacre | Fred Olen Ray | horror film |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | drama film |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | drama film, basketball film |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | drama film, science fiction film |
| If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? | Ron Ormond | dystopian film |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | crime thriller film, neo-noir |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | drama film, Western film |
| Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes | drama film, comedy film |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim | comedy film, comedy thriller, detective film, comedy drama, crime film |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | drama film, heist film, crime film |
| The Battle of Love's Return | Lloyd Kaufman | comedy film |
| The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, action film, horror film, dystopian film, zombie film, science fiction film, disaster film |
| The Todd Killings | Barry Shear | drama film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film |
| To Catch a Spy | Dick Clement | spy film |
| Valdez Is Coming | Edwin Sherin | Western film |
| Welcome to the Club | Walter Shenson | comedy film |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan, Maury Dexter | drama film, biographical film, crime film |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film |
| Brewster McCloud | Robert Altman | comedy drama |