| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | Soviet Union |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | United States |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | United States |
| Ji Hong Chang | Li Guanghui, Qi Xing-Jia | People's Republic of China |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | Libya, Morocco |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | Norway, Poland |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish People's Republic |
| Capone | Steve Carver | United States |
| The Ballad of Bering and His Friends | Yuri Shvyryov | Soviet Union |
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Germany, Italy |
| Sofiya Perovskaya | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island | Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| The Happiest Millionaire | Norman Tokar | United States |
| The Green Carriage | Yan Frid | Soviet Union |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | United States |
| Becket | Peter Glenville | United Kingdom, United States |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn | United States |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Italy |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union, Albania |
| Least We Forget | Leonid Lukov | Soviet Union |
| Admiral Ushakov | Mikhail Romm | Soviet Union |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | United States |
| Jambyl | Efim Dzigan | Soviet Union |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | United Kingdom, United States |
| Haakon VII – The King of Norway in War and Peace | Titus Vibe-Müller | Norway |
| Alexander Popov | Viktor Eisymont, Herbert Rappaport | Soviet Union |
| Joan of Arc | Victor Fleming | United States |
| Sister Kenny | Jack Gage, Dudley Nichols | United States |
| The Great Glinka | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| The Iron Major | Ray Enright | United States |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | Germany |
| That Hamilton Woman | Alexander Korda | United Kingdom, United States |
| Gjest Baardsen | Tancred Ibsen | Norway |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | United States |
| Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship | Mark Donskoy | Soviet Union |
| Pugachev | Pavel Petrov-Bytov | Soviet Union |
| Main Bhi Arjun: Parv | Krupesh Thacker | India |
| Our Erika | German Golub | Estonia |
| São Gabriel da Virgem Dolorosa | — | Brazil |
| Nr. 24 | John Andreas Andersen | Norway |
| Comandante | Edoardo De Angelis | Italy |
| Girl You Know It's True | Simon Verhoeven | France, Germany, South Africa, United States |