| De försvunna | Sergio Castilla | Cuba, Sweden |
| Dikaya okhota korolya Stakha | Valeri Rubinchik | Soviet Union |
| Kaala Patthar | Yash Chopra | India |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | India |
| Mueda, Memória e Massacre | Ruy Guerra | Mozambique |
| Nakts bez putniem | Gunārs Cilinskis | Soviet Union |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | France, Germany |
| Return Day | Dzmitry Zaytsaw | Soviet Union |
| Tear Stains | Li Wenhua | People's Republic of China |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | France |
| The Eighth Day | Anders Grönros | Sweden |
| The Rose | Mark Rydell | United States |
| The Vinchel Affair | Avraham Heffner | Israel |
| Tsirkachonok | Vladimir Bychkov, Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | Soviet Union |
| Ty pomnish? | Oleg Nikolayevsky | Soviet Union |
| 2 Champions of Shaolin | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | United States |
| Marsieh | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| Oj ne khody, Hrytsu, ta j na vechornytsi | Rostyslav Synko | Soviet Union |
| On the day of the holiday | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union |
| Renoir, My Father | Alan Cooke | United Kingdom |
| School Waltz | Pavel Lyubimov | Soviet Union |
| Several Interviews on Personal Matters | Lana Ghoghoberidze | Soviet Union |
| Sooteh-Delan | Ali Hatami | Iran |
| Summer Trip to the Sea | Semyon Aranovich | Soviet Union |
| The Late Berry | Fyodor Filippov | Soviet Union |
| Theatre | Jānis Streičs | Soviet Union |
| To the Last Breath | Kamran Qadakchian | Iran |
| Vajzat me kordele të kuqe | Gëzim Erebara | Albania |
| Violette Nozière | Claude Chabrol | France, Canada |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Zmory | Wojciech Marczewski | Poland |
| Don't Lean Out the Window | Bogdan Žižić | Yugoslavia |
| Feri Dast Ghashang | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | Iran |
| Goodness | Eduard Gavrilov | Soviet Union |
| Les Ambassadeurs | Naceur Ktari | France |
| On Thursday and Never Again | Anatoly Efros | Soviet Union |
| The Apple Game | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | Soviet Union |
| The Hunters | Thodoros Angelopoulos | France, Greece |
| The Report | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | Soviet Union |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | Soviet Union |
| Şefer Sözü | Osman F. Seden | Turkey |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| Blue Belle | Massimo Dallamano | United Kingdom, Italy, Australia |
| Chelcheragh (Chandelier) | Khosrow Parvizi | Iran |
| East End Hustle | Frank Vitale | Canada |