| Muzhiki!.. | Iskra Babich | Soviet Union |
| Ragtime | Miloš Forman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Absolution | Anthony Page | United Kingdom |
| Gunpoint | Tapio Suominen | Finland |
| The Sentimental Swordsman | Chor Yuen | British Hong Kong |
| Gypsy Happiness | Sergei Nikonenko | Soviet Union |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | United States |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | Norway |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Prema Kanuka | K. Raghavendra Rao | India |
| Seven Freckles | Herrmann Zschoche | East Germany |
| The Proud Twins | Chor Yuen | British Hong Kong |
| Montenegro | Dušan Makavejev | United Kingdom, Sweden |
| Scenes from Life of People on Leave | Nikolai Gubenko | Soviet Union |
| Onna kyōshi: yogoreta hōkago | Kichitarō Negishi | Japan |
| Bez milosci | Barbara Sass | Poland |
| Far from Home | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Germany, Iran |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | Soviet Union |
| La provinciale | Claude Goretta | France, Switzerland |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | Germany |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | Switzerland |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | United States |
| Fame | Alan Parker | United States |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |
| Spotkanie na Atlantyku | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | Taiwan |
| First Time Married | Iosif Kheifits | Soviet Union |
| The Lifeguard | Sergei Solovyov | Soviet Union |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | United States |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | Germany, Israel |
| The Wife Has Left | Dinara Asanova | Soviet Union |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | United Kingdom, United States |
| Evening Rain | Wu Yonggang, Wu Yigong | People's Republic of China |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | United States |
| Us Two | Claude Lelouch | France, Canada |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | France, Italy |
| The Concorde ... Airport '79 | David Lowell Rich | United States |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | Canada |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | United Kingdom, United States |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | United States |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | United States |
| Dracula | John Badham | United Kingdom |
| Little Valentino | András Jeles | Hungary |
| A Commuter Kind of Love | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | Norway |
| Kronprinsen | Pål Bang-Hansen | Norway |