| To Kill a Cop | Alain Delon | France |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | United States |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | United States |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Thief | — | United States |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | United States |
| Petrovka, 38 | Boris Grigoryev | Soviet Union |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | United States |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | Germany, United States, West Germany |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | France |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, United States |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | France, Italy |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | United Kingdom, United States |
| Act of Aggression | Gérard Pirès | France, Italy |
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Framed | Phil Karlson | United States |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| The Fortune | Mike Nichols | United States |
| Capone | Steve Carver | United States |
| Criminal Records | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Poland |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | United States, Mexico |
| The Drug Addict | David Chiang | British Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia | Franco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union, Italy |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | United States |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | United States |
| Dillinger | John Milius | United States |
| The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe | Yves Robert | France |
| The Valachi Papers | Terence Young | France, Italy |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | United States |
| The Murderer Waits on the Rails | Josef Mach | Czechoslovakia |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Elio Petri | Italy |
| The Master of Taiga | Vladimir Nazarov | Soviet Union |
| Oliver! | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, Italy |
| The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | United States |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | United States |
| Deadlier Than the Male | Ralph Thomas | United Kingdom |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| Emil and the Detectives | Peter Tewksbury | United States |
| The Invisible Dr. Mabuse | Harald Reinl | Germany |
| Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | Robert Wise | United States |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | United States |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| På slaget åtte | Nils R. Müller | Norway |
| The Long Arm | Charles Frend | United Kingdom |