| One True Love | Mark Osepyan | Soviet Union |
| Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | People's Republic of China |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | Soviet Union |
| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | France, Italy |
| The Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Rooks | Konstantin Yershov | Soviet Union |
| The Tereon’s Head | Varis Brasla | Soviet Union |
| True of Lieutenant Klimov | Oleg Dashkevich | Soviet Union |
| Alexander The Small | Vladimir Fokin | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| An Intimate Story | Nadav Levitan | Israel |
| And I'm with you again... | Boris Galanter | Soviet Union |
| Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung | Herbert Vesely | France, Germany, Austria |
| Facts of the Past Day | Vladimir Basov | Soviet Union |
| Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | France |
| My, nizhepodpisavshiyesya | Tatyana Lioznova | Soviet Union |
| Nothing to Hide | Anthony Spinelli | United States |
| Old Letters | Anatolii Ivanov | Soviet Union |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | United States |
| Raggedy Man | Jack Fisk | United States |
| The Drive to Win | Zhang Nuanxin | People's Republic of China |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | United States |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | France |
| The Smacking Sea | Arvo Kruusement | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| The Witch Hunt | Anja Breien | Sweden |
| Through Gobi and Khingan | Badrahin Sumhu, Vasili Ordynsky | Soviet Union, East Germany, Mongolian People's Republic |
| Varavu Nalla Uravu | Visu | India |
| We Looked in the Death's Face | Naum Birman | Soviet Union |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | Soviet Union |
| A Week's Vacation | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Baradarkoshi | Iraj Ghaderi | Iran |
| Cordélia | Jean Beaudin | Canada |
| Dealing with the Devil | Lin Lan | People's Republic of China |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | Sweden |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | United States |
| Good Riddance | Francis Mankiewicz | Canada |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Italy |
| Particularly Important Task | Yevgeny Matveyev | Soviet Union |
| Tanya's Island | Alfred Sole | Canada, United States |
| Thanassis, Tighten Your Belt Some More | Thodoros Maragos | Greece |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | France |
| The Night the City Screamed | Harry Falk | United States |
| The Raven's Dance | Markku Lehmuskallio | Finland |
| The Star Inspector (1980) | Vladimir Polin, Mark Kovalyov | Soviet Union |
| Times Square | Allan Moyle | United States |
| Camera Buff | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| Companys, procés a Catalunya | Josep Maria Forn | Spain |
| Coriolanus | Wilford Leach | United States |
| Cubit-Cubitan | Maman Firmansjah | Indonesia |