| Last Man to Kill | Umberto Lenzi | France, Italy |
| Lost Command | Mark Robson | France, United States |
| The Embryo Hunts in Secret | Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| The Singing Nun | Henry Koster | United States |
| The Three Sisters | Paul Bogart | United States |
| The War Is Over | Alain Resnais | France, Sweden |
| Atithi | Tapan Sinha | India |
| Enga Veetu Penn | Tapi Chanakya | India |
| Finger on the Trigger | Sidney W. Pink | Spain, United States |
| First Snow | Yuri Shvyryov, Boris Grigoryev | Soviet Union |
| Long Live the Republic! | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
| Mootalaie shahre ma | Abbas Shabaviz | Iran |
| Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Shab-e ghoozi | Farrokh Ghaffari | Iran |
| The Bridge Is Built | Gabriel Egiazarov, Oleg Yefremov | Soviet Union |
| To a Cold Land | Ants Kivirähk, Valdur Himbek | Estonia |
| Two in Love | Mikhail Bogin | Soviet Union |
| Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Czechoslovakia |
| Devil with a False Passport | Jüri Müür, Grigori Kromanov | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Dzhura | Adolf Bergunker | Soviet Union |
| Hard Passage | Melis Ubukeyev | Soviet Union |
| Kitten with a Whip | Douglas Heyes | United States |
| March on the Drina | Žika Mitrović | Yugoslavia |
| Prometheus of the Island | Vatroslav Mimica | Yugoslavia |
| Przerwany lot | Leonard Buczkowski | Poland |
| Sangam | Raj Kapoor | India |
| Shape of Night | Noboru Nakamura | Japan |
| Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| Tale about the Boy-Kibalchish | Yevgeny Sherstobitov | Soviet Union |
| The Best Man | Franklin J. Schaffner | United States |
| The Cat in the Bag | Gilles Groulx | Canada |
| The Enchanted Desna | Yuliya Solntseva | Soviet Union |
| The Humans | Aramais Aghamalian, Mehdi Missaghieh | Iran |
| The Lively Set | Jack Arnold | United States |
| The Pleasures of Sin | Siamak Yasemi | Iran |
| The Soft Skin | François Truffaut | France, Portugal |
| The Tomb of Ligeia | Roger Corman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Thomas the Impostor | Georges Franju | France |
| Three Outlaw Samurai | Hideo Gosha | Japan |
| Under Age | Larry Buchanan | United States |
| Yearning | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| A Gathering of Eagles | Delbert Mann | United States |
| All the Way Home | Alex Segal | United States |
| Bad Girl | Kirio Urayama | Japan |
| Bebo's Girl | Luigi Comencini | France, Italy |
| Come Fly with Me | Henry Levin | United Kingdom |
| Free, White and 21 | Larry Buchanan | United States |
| Heat | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |