| The Deer Hunt | Fadil Hadžić | Yugoslavia |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Germany, Austria |
| The House of Ghamar Khanum | Bahman Farmanara | Iran |
| The Last Day | Mikhail Ulyanov | Soviet Union |
| The Master and Margaret | Aleksandar Petrović | Italy, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| Vid na zhitelstvo | Omar Gvasalia, Alexander Stefanovich | Soviet Union |
| Zoia Rukhadze | David Rondeli | Georgian SSR |
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | United Kingdom |
| Adamak | Khosrow Haritash | Iran |
| Ayyoob | Fereydoun Jourak | Iran |
| Black Beauty | James Hill | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain |
| Confessions of a Police Captain | Damiano Damiani | Italy |
| Deadly Enemy | Yevgeny Matveyev | Soviet Union |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Japan |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | United States |
| Drama from ancient Life | Ilya Averbakh | Soviet Union |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | United States |
| Find me, Lyonya! | Nicolai Lebedev | Soviet Union |
| Furious Men | Saber Rahbar | Iran |
| Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Yoshimitsu Banno | Japan |
| Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment | Konrad Wolf | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union, East Germany, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Heydar | Fereydoun Jourak | Iran |
| Illumination | Volodymyr Denysenko | Soviet Union |
| Khodahafez Rafigh | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra | Horst E. Brandt | East Germany, Germany |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | United States |
| Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes | United States |
| See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | United Kingdom |
| Shinken Shōbu | Tomu Uchida | Japan |
| Subah-o-Shyam | Tapi Chanakya | India, Iran |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | United States |
| The Raging Moon | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| The Scene of the Crash | Zvonimir Berković | Yugoslavia |
| The Silent Love | Yueh Feng | Hong Kong |
| The Todd Killings | Barry Shear | United States |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan, Maury Dexter | United States |
| A Swedish Love Story | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
| About Love | Mikhail Bogin | Soviet Union |
| Akka Chellelu | A. Sanjeevi | India |
| Claire's Knee | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Dancer of City | Shapoor Gharib | Iran |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Japan |
| Dokhtar-e zalem-bala | Azizaleh Bahadori | Iran |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | United States |
| Getting Straight | Richard Rush | United States |