| The Professional | Georges Lautner | France |
| 31. osakonna hukk | Peeter Urbla | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | United States |
| The Fairfax Millions | Nikolai Ilyinsky | Soviet Union |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | United States |
| To the Last Breath | Kamran Qadakchian | Iran |
| Versiya polkovnika Zorina | Andrey Ladynin | Soviet Union |
| Violette Nozière | Claude Chabrol | France, Canada |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Awake in the City | Iraj Ghaderi | Iran |
| Chelcheragh (Chandelier) | Khosrow Parvizi | Iran |
| Project: Kill | William Girdler | United States |
| Sweeney! | David Wickes | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Last Supper | Shahyar Ghanbari | Iran |
| Meshki | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| The Night Leopard | Saeed Motalebi | Iran |
| Deranged | Alan Ormsby | Canada, United States |
| The Crookes | Saeed Motalebi | Iran |
| Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable | Shunya Itō | Japan |
| Kareteci Kiz | Orhan Aksoy | Turkey |
| Rooster | Shapoor Gharib | Iran |
| Sharoor | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| Tangna | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| The Hateful Wolf | Maziar Partow | Iran |
| The Strengthening Sun | Amir Shervan | Iran |
| Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | Shunya Itō | Japan |
| Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion | Shunya Itō | Japan |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters | United States |
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | United Kingdom |
| Confessions of a Police Captain | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| Khodahafez Rafigh | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Roger Vadim | United States |
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | United Kingdom |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| The Hideout | Marc Simenon | France, Canada, Belgium, Italy |
| The Meeting place of Anger | Saeed Motalebi | Iran |
| The Todd Killings | Barry Shear | United States |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan, Maury Dexter | United States |
| Dokhtar-e zalem-bala | Azizaleh Bahadori | Iran |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell | United Kingdom |
| Under the Bazaar | Reza Safaei | Iran |
| Marlowe | Paul Bogart | United States |
| Prostitute | Abbas Shabaviz | Iran |
| Deadfall | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| Death and Diamonds | Harald Reinl | Germany, Italy |
| Dragon Gorge | Siamak Yasemi | Iran |
| Le Pacha | Georges Lautner | France, Italy |
| Madigan | Don Siegel | United States |