| Freaky Friday | Gary Nelson | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film | United States |
| I Want the Floor | Gleb Panfilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Do not Trick, Pretty | Saeed Motalebi | — | Iran |
| ...And Other Officials | Semyon Aranovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | coming-of-age film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, teen film, drama film, melodrama, horror film, thriller film, supernatural horror film | United States |
| The Rat Savior | Krsto Papić | horror film, science fiction film | Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| The Last Victim | Pyotr Todorovsky | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Odysseus und die Sterne | Ludvík Ráža | mystery film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Czechoslovakia |
| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | drama film, family film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Bør Børson II | Stein Roger Bull | comedy film, musical film | Norway |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Australia |
| Cantata de Chile | Humberto Solás | drama film | Cuba |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Gekitotsu! Wakadaishō | Tsugunobu Kotani | ice hockey film | Japan |
| The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Melvin Frank | Western film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World | Hiroshi Shidara | anime, fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga | Japan |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | historical film, biographical film | Polish People's Republic |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | Norway |
| Gilgames | András Rajnai | historical film, adventure film | Hungary |
| When September comes | Edmond Keosayan | family film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| No Deposit, No Return | Norman Tokar | heist film | United States |
| We Didn't Learn This | Ilya Frez | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| A Pacemaker and a Sidecar | André Forcier | — | Canada |
| A Technical Malfunction | Nosratollah Vahdat | comedy film | Iran |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, historical film, crime film | United States |
| Awake in the City | Iraj Ghaderi | crime film | Iran |
| Bernie and the Gang | Marcel Carrière | — | Canada |
| Blue Belle | Massimo Dallamano | coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film | United Kingdom, Italy, Australia |
| Brunet Will Call | Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Poland |
| Chelcheragh (Chandelier) | Khosrow Parvizi | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Circus in the Circus | Oldřich Lipský | family film, comedy film | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
| Death Under Sail | Ada Neretniece | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Delivery | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Soviet Union |
| East End Hustle | Frank Vitale | drama film | Canada |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — | Australia |
| Escape from the Dark | Charles Jarrott | drama film, children's film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Feelin' Up | David Secter | independent film | United States |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron | action film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Goluboy portret | — | — | Soviet Union |
| House of Pleasure for Women | Pupi Avati | comedy film | Italy |
| I Am Self Sufficient | — | comedy film | Italy |
| In the Region of Ice | Peter Werner | drama film | United States |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | romance film, drama film | Turkey, Iran |
| Jaahel and the Dancer | Reza Safaei | drama film | Iran |
| James Dean: The First American Teenager | Ray Connolly | documentary film | United States |
| Jeevan Jyoti | Murugan Kumaran | — | India |
| Kader Bağlayınca | Orhan Aksoy | comedy drama | Turkey |
| Killer Clans | Chor Yuen | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| King Kong | John Guillermin | drama film, monster film, fantasy film, action film, horror film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Lady Moonflower | — | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Lake Sonata | Gunārs Cilinskis, Varis Brasla | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Lifeguard | Daniel Petrie | drama film | United States |
| Little Tougas | Jean-Guy Noël | — | Canada |
| Los Hombres sólo piensan en eso | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | drama film | East Germany |
| Monster | Siamak Yasemi | drama film | Iran |
| Movie Rush | Ottavio Fabbri | comedy film | Italy |
| Naked Until Noon | Khosrow Haritash | drama film, Filmfarsi | Iran |
| Nelken in Aspik | Günter Reisch | comedy film | East Germany, Germany |
| New Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion | Yutaka Kohira | pink film | Japan |
| Oh, Serafina! | Alberto Lattuada | comedy film | Italy |
| One Silver Piece | Jaroslav Balík | drama film | Czechoslovakia |
| Pride and Prejudice | Abbas Kasayi | — | Iran |
| Project: Kill | William Girdler | action film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Sodybų tuštėjimo metas | — | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Sweeney! | David Wickes | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Chaos Class Is Waking Up | Ertem Eğilmez | — | Turkey |
| The Clown | Ghodratallah Ehsani | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| The Combat | Azizaleh Bahadori | — | Iran |
| The Guest | Kamran Qadakchian | — | Iran |
| The Idol | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film, thriller film | Iran |
| The Last Supper | Shahyar Ghanbari | police film, crime film | Iran |
| The Likely Lads | Michael Tuchner | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Man from the Movies | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | fiction film, docudrama | Canada |
| The Wishing Tree | Tengiz Abuladze | drama film | Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Tretya storona medali | Nurmuxan Janturin | war film | Soviet Union |
| Under the Upturned Moon | Ēriks Lācis | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain | documentary film | Canada |
| Widows | Sergey Mikaelyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| You Wrote to Me... | Aida Manasarova | — | Soviet Union |