| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | Germany |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Canada |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | Libya, Morocco |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany |
| Woman Between Wolf and Dog | André Delvaux | France, Belgium |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| The Angry Man | Claude Pinoteau | France, Canada |
| Young Wife | Leonid Menaker | Soviet Union |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Kvinnene | Per Blom | Norway |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | France |
| Bilet powrotny | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Poland |
| Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | Poland |
| Front Beyond the Front Line | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | Soviet Union |
| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | Norway |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | United Kingdom, United States |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | Canada |
| Olga | Markku Onttonen | Finland |
| Acı Hatıralar | Iraj Ghaderi, Atıf Yılmaz | Turkey, Iran |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Death of a President | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | United States |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | Norway, Poland |
| I Want the Floor | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
| ...And Other Officials | Semyon Aranovich | Soviet Union |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | United States |
| The Last Victim | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| Cantata de Chile | Humberto Solás | Cuba |
| Midway | Jack Smight | United States |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| We Didn't Learn This | Ilya Frez | Soviet Union |
| Ot zari do zari | Gabriel Egiazarov | Soviet Union |
| Act of Aggression | Gérard Pirès | France, Italy |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| The Change | Alfredo Joskowicz | Mexico |