| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| Funny People | Mikhail Schweitzer | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Citizen Nikanorova Waits for You | Leonid Maryagin | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Pretty Peaches | Alex de Renzy | pornographic film | United States |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film | United States |
| Do krwi ostatniej | Jerzy Hoffman | drama film | Poland |
| The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | fantasy film, adventure film, musical film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Front Beyond the Front Line | Igor Gostev | drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | drama film | Norway |
| The Scarlet Flower | Irina Povolotskaya | romance film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | crime film | France |
| Olsenbanden og Data-Harry sprenger verdensbanken | Knut Bohwim | crime comedy film | Norway |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Piranha | Joe Dante | horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | romance film, drama film | United States |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | comedy film, concert film, docufiction | Sweden, Australia |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, action film, children's film | United States |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | American football film, fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Nathalie rescapée de l'enfer | Alain Payet | Nazi exploitation | France |
| Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | drama film, independent film, prison film, biographical film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Weekend of Shadows | Tom Jeffrey | — | Australia |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | action film, thriller film, crime film | France, Italy |
| Olga | Markku Onttonen | drama film | Finland |
| Acı Hatıralar | Iraj Ghaderi, Atıf Yılmaz | drama film, Filmfarsi, musical film | Turkey, Iran |
| ... Gdziekolwiek jesteś panie prezydencie | Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki | historical film | Poland |
| 2 Champions of Shaolin | Chang Cheh | drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| A Dog walked along the Piano | Vladimir Grammatikov | teen film, romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| A Moment Decides Everything | Viktor Sadovsky | sport film | Soviet Union |
| American Hot Wax | Floyd Mutrux | biographical film | United States |
| Atonement for Others' Sins | Valerian Pidpaly | — | Soviet Union |
| Breathtaking | Mahmoud Koushan | action film, thriller film | Iran |
| Captain Harlock: Mystery of the Arcadia | Rintaro | space opera | Japan |
| Cheerleaders Beach Party | Alex E. Goitein | comedy film | United States |
| Children are like Children | Ayan Shakhmaliyeva | — | Soviet Union |
| Clan of Amazons | Chor Yuen | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | horror film, science fiction film, crime film | United States |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | drama film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| Corvette Summer | Matthew Robbins | teen film, comedy film | United States |
| Dawns Are Kissing | Sergei Nikonenko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Every Which Way but Loose | James Fargo | comedy film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| Happy Days | Orhan Aksoy | comedy film | Turkey |
| Hooper | Hal Needham | action film, action comedy film | United States |
| Krasavets-muzhchina | Margarita Mikaelyan | musical film | Soviet Union |
| La Carapate | Gérard Oury | comedy film | France |
| Lady Black Rose | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film | Japan |
| Legend of the Bat | Chor Yuen | martial arts film, thriller film | Hong Kong |
| Marsieh | Amir Naderi | drama film | Iran |
| Marée noire et colère rouge | René Vautier | documentary film | France |
| Melodrammore | Maurizio Costanzo | comedy film | Italy |
| Mother-in-law | Huseyn Seyidzadeh | comedy film, musical film | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Nicole | István Ventilla | erotic thriller | United States |
| Oj ne khody, Hrytsu, ta j na vechornytsi | Rostyslav Synko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| On the day of the holiday | Pyotr Todorovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| On the Night of the Lunar Eclipse (film) | Baras Khalzanov | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Pink Tush Girl | Kōyū Ohara | pink film | Japan |
| Po ulitsam komod vodili... | Mark Genin | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Rallijs | Aloizs Brenčs | — | Soviet Union |
| Red Rings of Fear | Alberto Negrin | mystery film, horror film, thriller film | Germany, Spain, Italy |
| Renoir, My Father | Alan Cooke | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Resting Against the Wind | Fereydoun Jourak | — | Iran |
| Rhyme of Vengeance | Kon Ichikawa | mystery film, thriller film | Japan |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | teen film, musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Rope Hell | Kōyū Ohara | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| School Waltz | Pavel Lyubimov | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Several Interviews on Personal Matters | Lana Ghoghoberidze | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Shaolin Handlock | Ho Meng Hua | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Sooteh-Delan | Ali Hatami | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Summer Trip to the Sea | Semyon Aranovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Late Berry | Fyodor Filippov | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Theatre | Jānis Streičs | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| To the Last Breath | Kamran Qadakchian | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom | Peter Nestler | documentary film | Sweden |
| Vajzat me kordele të kuqe | Gëzim Erebara | drama film | Albania |
| Versiya polkovnika Zorina | Andrey Ladynin | mystery film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Violette Nozière | Claude Chabrol | drama film, crime film | France, Canada |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Zhivite v radosti | Leonid Sergeevich Millionshchikov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Zmory | Wojciech Marczewski | drama film | Poland |