| Teenage Masseuse | Ralph Ell | United States |
| Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Framed | Phil Karlson | United States |
| John Glückstadt | Ulf Miehe | Germany |
| Nashville | Robert Altman | United States |
| The Cage | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | United States |
| Los pájaros de Baden-Baden | Mario Camus | Spain, Switzerland |
| Capone | Steve Carver | United States |
| Mothers and Daughters | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| Tommy | Ken Russell | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Deep Red | Dario Argento | Italy |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | United Kingdom |
| Valka's Sails | Nikolay Zhukov | Soviet Union |
| Electra, My Love | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| At Home Among Strangers | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Under en steinhimmel | Igor Maslennikov, Knut Andersen | Soviet Union, Norway |
| Criminal Records | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Poland |
| Autumn | Andrei Smirnov | Soviet Union |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | United States, Mexico |
| Friends | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong |
| Bangaaru Kalalu | Adurthi Subba Rao | India |
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | John Hough | United States |
| The Drug Addict | David Chiang | British Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Matters of the Heart | Ajdar Ibrahimov | Soviet Union |
| No Return | Aleksei Saltykov | Soviet Union |
| The Savage Five | Chang Cheh | British Hong Kong |
| Vanyushin's Children | Evgeniy Tashkov | Soviet Union |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | British Hong Kong |
| 7 zile | Mircea Veroiu | Socialist Republic of Romania |
| Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | United States |
| Knut Formos siste jakt | Jan Erik Düring | Norway |
| Palec Boży | Antoni Krauze | Poland |
| The Castle of Purity | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
| Maria Marusjka | Oddvar Bull Tuhus | Norway |
| The Legend of Paul and Paula | Heiner Carow | East Germany |
| Fem døgn i august | Svend Wam | Norway |
| Anatomia miłości | Roman Załuski | Poland |
| Ichijo's Wet Lust | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Japan |
| A Marcha | Oswaldo Sampaio | Brazil |
| Big School-Break | Aleksey Korenev | Soviet Union |
| Dauria | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| King Boxer | Jeong Chang-hwa | British Hong Kong |
| Zaraza | Roman Załuski | Poland |
| Zee and Co. | Brian G. Hutton | United Kingdom, Australia |
| With Fear and Passion | Nikos Foskolos | Greece |
| Macbeth | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Two English Girls | François Truffaut | France |