| Escape from the Dark | Charles Jarrott | United Kingdom, United States |
| In the Region of Ice | Peter Werner | United States |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | Turkey, Iran |
| Jaahel and the Dancer | Reza Safaei | Iran |
| King Kong | John Guillermin | United States |
| Lifeguard | Daniel Petrie | United States |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | East Germany |
| Monster | Siamak Yasemi | Iran |
| Naked Until Noon | Khosrow Haritash | Iran |
| One Silver Piece | Jaroslav Balík | Czechoslovakia |
| Sodybų tuštėjimo metas | — | Soviet Union |
| Sweeney! | David Wickes | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Clown | Ghodratallah Ehsani | Iran |
| The Idol | Iraj Ghaderi | Iran |
| The Wishing Tree | Tengiz Abuladze | Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Under the Upturned Moon | Ēriks Lācis | Soviet Union |
| Widows | Sergey Mikaelyan | Soviet Union |
| Between Day and Night | Horst E. Brandt, Nicolai Rohde | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany |
| Chronicle of the Years of Fire | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Algeria |
| Daari Tappida Maga | Peketi Sivaram | India |
| Dada Gorgud | Tofig Taghizade | Soviet Union |
| Deprem | Şerif Gören | Turkey |
| Driver by Force | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| How the Steel Was Tempered | Nikolay Mashchenko | Soviet Union |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | Canada |
| Maria | Mats Arehn | Sweden |
| Meshki | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| Nazanin | Alireza Davood Nejad | Iran |
| Night of Strangers | Farzan Deljou | Iran |
| No End of Surprises | Chu Mu | Hong Kong |
| The House | Bogdan Žižić | Yugoslavia |
| The Messiah | Roberto Rossellini | France, Italy |
| The Story of Sin | Walerian Borowczyk | Poland |
| Ayrı Dünyalar | Orhan Aksoy | Turkey |
| Colchian ballad | Genrikh Khodzhava | Georgian SSR |
| Corpus delicti against him | Vasile Brescanu | Soviet Union |
| Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| Earthquake | Mark Robson | United States |
| Flower and Snake | Masaru Konuma | Japan |
| I'm Gonna Buy a Dad | Aman Manteghi | Iran |
| Intimacies of a Prostitute | Armando Bó | Argentina |
| Nebo so mnoy | Valeri Lonskoy | Soviet Union |
| Nemuritorii | Sergiu Nicolaescu | East Germany, Romania |
| Okovani soferi | Vladimir Pavlovich | Soviet Union, Yugoslavia |
| Par le sang des autres | Marc Simenon | France, Canada, Italy |
| Ryoma Ansatsu | Kazuo Kuroki | Japan |
| Shaolin Martial Arts | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong |
| Stranger and the Fog | Bahram Beyzai | Iran |