| São Gabriel da Virgem Dolorosa | — | Brazil |
| Comandante | Edoardo De Angelis | Italy |
| Below The Surface. ORP Orzeł | Jacek Bławut | Poland |
| Kupała | Uladzimir Yankowski | Belarus |
| Man of Will | Lee Won-tae | South Korea |
| Public Works | Joram Lürsen | Netherlands |
| Stonewall | Roland Emmerich | United States |
| Living Images | Hardi Volmer | Estonia |
| Rajanna | S. S. Rajamouli | India |
| La route des cieux | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Madrasapattinam | A. L. Vijay | India |
| Khí phách anh hùng | Hồ Ngọc Xum | Vietnam |
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Germany, United States |
| Kromov | Andrey Razenkov | Russia |
| The Widow of Saint-Pierre | Patrice Leconte | France, Canada |
| Fight for Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou | He Xiaojiang, Shi Wei | People's Republic of China, Norway |
| Kundun | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Red River Valley | Feng Xiaoning | People's Republic of China |
| The Sexual Challenges of Hercules | Joe D'Amato | Italy |
| Yermak | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy, Valery Uskov | Russia |
| The Airship | Pablo Dotta | Uruguay |
| Lord, Forgive Us, Sinners | Artur Voytetsky | Ukraine |
| Moscow Parade | Ivan Dykhovichny | France, Russia |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | Evgeniy Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| Viva Gardes-Marines! | Svetlana Druzhinina | Soviet Union |
| Jiao Yulu | Wang Ji-Xing | People's Republic of China |
| Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | United Kingdom, Germany, Poland |
| Rytsarskiy Zamok | Sergei Tarasov | Soviet Union |
| There is no Stranger's Land | Baras Khalzanov | Soviet Union |
| The Hostage of Europe | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | France, Poland |
| The Adventures of Quentin Durward, Marksman of the Royal Guard | Sergei Tarasov | Soviet Union |
| The Pathfinder | Pavel Lyubimov | Soviet Union |
| Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: God sorok pervyy | Vyacheslav Nikiforov | Soviet Union |
| Black Castle Olshansky | Michail Ptashuk | Soviet Union |
| Lurich | Valentin Kuik | Soviet Union |
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | United States |
| Pervaya konnaya | Vladimir Lubomudrov | Soviet Union |
| Parahyba Mulher Macho | Tizuka Yamasaki | Brazil |
| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | France, Italy |
| Nanchang Uprising | Tang Xiaodan | People's Republic of China |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | Soviet Union |
| Allegro s ognyom | Vladimir Strelkov | Soviet Union |
| ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś panie prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | Poland |
| On the Night of the Lunar Eclipse (film) | Baras Khalzanov | Soviet Union |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | Soviet Union, Poland |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | United States |
| No Trespassing | Doru Năstase | Romania |
| Colchian ballad | Genrikh Khodzhava | Georgian SSR |