| You and Me | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | United States |
| A Long Goodbye | Kira Muratova | Soviet Union |
| Officers | Vladimir Rogovoy | Soviet Union |
| Viva la Muerte | Fernando Arrabal | France, Tunisia |
| Hail, Mary! | Iosif Kheifits | Soviet Union |
| The Emigrants | Jan Troell | Sweden |
| In the Gorge | Vojko Duletič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Midsummer Sex | Arne Stivell | Sweden |
| The Birch Wood | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| The Headquarters | Matti Kassila | Finland |
| Døden i gatene | Arnljot Berg | Norway |
| The Murderer Waits on the Rails | Josef Mach | Czechoslovakia |
| Crime and Punishment | Lev Kulidzhanov | Soviet Union |
| Chitti Chellelu | Madhaviah Krishnan | India |
| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Vincente Minnelli | United States |
| The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| Exit | Pål Løkkeberg | Norway |
| In the Name of the Law | Nikos Foskolos | Greece |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel | France, Spain, Italy |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Elio Petri | Italy |
| Late Flowers | Abram Room | Soviet Union |
| The Reivers | Mark Rydell | United States |
| Marooned | John Sturges | United States |
| Djamila | Irina Poplavskaya, Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union |
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| Psychedelica Blues | Nils Reinhardt Christensen | Norway |
| Punisher | Manos Zacharias | Soviet Union |
| Me, Natalie | Fred Coe | United States |
| The Living Corpse | Vladimir Vengerov | Soviet Union |
| Rascal | Norman Tokar | United States |
| Pierre et Paul | René Allio | France |
| Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| The Boys of Paul Street | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary, United States |
| Charro! | Charles Marquis Warren | United States |
| At War as at War | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| An-Magritt | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Oliver! | Carol Reed | United Kingdom |
| Ice Station Zebra | John Sturges | United States |
| Solaris | Lidiya Ishimbayeva, Boris Nirenburg | Soviet Union |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Germany, Italy |
| Here, Beneath the North Star | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| For Love of Ivy | Daniel Mann | United States |
| The Green Berets | Mervyn LeRoy, John Wayne, Ray Kellogg | United States |
| The Sixth of July | Yuli Karasik | Soviet Union |
| Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | United Kingdom |
| Sofiya Perovskaya | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |