| Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | comedy film, children's film, adventure film, heist film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Animal | Claude Zidi | comedy film, action film | France |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Last Wave | Peter Weir | horror film, science fiction film, disaster film | Australia |
| How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder | Nadezhda Kosheverova | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Rudin | Konstantin Voinov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a President | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | drama film, horror film, ghost film | United States |
| Oczy uroczne | Piotr Szulkin | horror film | Poland |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Racha, my love | Joseph Medved, Temur Palavandishvili | romance film, comedy film | Georgian SSR, Czechoslovakia |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Super Inframan | Hua Shan | martial arts film, superhero film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | British Hong Kong |
| Birds of Our Hopes | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | — | Soviet Union |
| Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife | Grigori Melik-Avakyan | music-themed film | Soviet Union |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce | American football film, mystery film, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, disaster film | United States |
| Akuma no temari-uta | Kon Ichikawa | — | Japan |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | art film, drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, mecha | Japan |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| Nickelodeon | Peter Bogdanovich | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Practical Joke | Vladimir Menshov | teen film, romantic drama film, melodrama, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Golden River | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| An Almost Funny Story | Pyotr Fomenko | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Are You Being Served? | Bob Kellett | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Baskın | Atıf Yılmaz | adventure film | Turkey |
| Birthday | Rasim Ojagov | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Broken Oath | Jeong Chang-hwa | kung fu film | Hong Kong |
| Chanakya Chandragupta | N. T. Rama Rao | biographical film | India |
| Dar shahr khabari nist | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | — | Iran |
| Don't Lean Out the Window | Bogdan Žižić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Dying a Thousand Times | Jalal Mehraban | — | Iran |
| Feri Dast Ghashang | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Fire! | Earl Bellamy | action film, disaster film | United States |
| Gamín | Ciro Durán | documentary film | Colombia |
| Goodness | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Hatred | Samvel Gasparov | action film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Incognito from St. Petersburg | Leonid Gaidai | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Last Year of Berkut | Vadim Lysenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Les Ambassadeurs | Naceur Ktari | drama film | France |
| Love at First Sight | Rezo Esadze | comedy film | Georgian SSR |
| Mr. Etemad's Trouble | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Naval Commandos | Chang Cheh, Wu Ma | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| On Thursday and Never Again | Anatoly Efros | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Pendekar | M. Amin | — | Malaysia |
| Po semeynym obstoyatelstvam | Aleksey Korenev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Shab-e aftabi | Sirus Alvand | — | Iran |
| Stone Valley | — | — | Soviet Union |
| The Apple Game | Věra Chytilová | drama film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | drama film, children's film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Brave Archer | Chang Cheh | fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | mystery film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| The Hunters | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film | France, Greece |
| The Miracle Voice of Gelsomino | Tamara Lisitsian | cinematic fairy tale, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Pack | Robert Clouse | horror film | United States |
| The Report | Abbas Kiarostami | drama film | Iran |
| The Three Superboys in the Snow | Natuk Baytan, Ernst Hofbauer | comedy film | Italy, Turkey |
| The Uncanny | Denis Héroux | mystery film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Word of Truth | Nezam Fatemi | — | Iran |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Şefer Sözü | Osman F. Seden | drama film | Turkey |