| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | United States |
| Women | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong |
| Xiang si nü zi ke dian | Dong Kena | People's Republic of China |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | United States |
| Applause, Applause... | Viktor Buturlin | Soviet Union |
| Birdy | Alan Parker | United States |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | Japan |
| First | Gennady Bazarov | Soviet Union |
| L'Amour à mort | Alain Resnais | France |
| Le jour S… | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | United States |
| No Family | Vladimir Bortko | Soviet Union |
| Park | Rasim Ojagov | Soviet Union |
| Success | Konstantin Khudyakov | Soviet Union |
| The Blood of Others | Claude Chabrol | France, Canada, United States |
| The Masculine Mystique | Giles Walker, John N. Smith | Canada |
| There Lived a Doctor | Vyacheslav Sorokin | Soviet Union |
| Two Versions of One Collision | Villen Novak | Soviet Union |
| Un caso d'incoscienza | Emidio Greco | Italy |
| Windy City | Armyan Bernstein | United States |
| Yamaha Fish Stall | Zhang Liang | People's Republic of China |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague | United States |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | United Kingdom, United States |
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank, Ellen Horde | United States |
| Flight During Atlantic Ocean | Raimondas Vabalas | Soviet Union |
| Here is your front | Eduard Gavrilov | Soviet Union |
| Il disertore | Giuliana Berlinguer | Italy |
| Kukaracha | Siko Dolidze, Keti Dolidze | Georgian SSR |
| Moon Shine Bowling | André Forcier | Canada |
| Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | Yugoslavia |
| Parahyba Mulher Macho | Tizuka Yamasaki | Brazil |
| Skazka o zvezdnom malchike | Leonid Nechayev | Soviet Union |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | United States |
| The Adventurer | Kaljo Kiisk | Estonia |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | Japan |
| The Deal | Fernando Ayala | Argentina |
| The Keep | — | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Mill | Ahmed Rachedi | Algeria |
| The Story Shouldn't Had Happend | Zhang Hui | People's Republic of China |
| Troe na shosse | Anatoly Bobrovsky | Soviet Union |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | Gabon, France, Germany |
| A Pool Without Water | Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York | Stanislav Látal | Czechoslovakia |
| Breathless | Mady Saks | Netherlands |
| Devata | K. Raghavendra Rao | India |
| Dykhanie grozy | Viktor Turov | Soviet Union |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | Italy |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | United States |