| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | drama film, flashback film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Dracula | John Badham | romance film, drama film, horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | comedy drama | United States |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Goin' South | Jack Nicholson | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The Mountain of the Cannibal God | Sergio Martino | cannibal film, horror film | Italy |
| The Frisco Kid | Robert Aldrich | comedy film, Western film, buddy film | United States |
| Little Valentino | András Jeles | drama film | Hungary |
| Moonlight on Second Spring | Yan Jizhou | biographical drama film | People's Republic of China |
| A Commuter Kind of Love | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | drama film | Norway |
| Kronprinsen | Pål Bang-Hansen | drama film | Norway |
| Drunken Master | Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Der Mörder | Ottokar Runze | drama film | Germany |
| Autumn Marathon | Georgiy Daneliya | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | coming-of-age film, drama film | Canada |
| Ji Hong Chang | Li Guanghui, Qi Xing-Jia | war drama, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | drama film, historical film, adventure film, medieval film, war film, biographical film, epic film | Libya, Morocco |
| The 36th Chamber of Shaolin | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Angel Guts | — | exploitation film, pink film | Japan |
| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, Western film, children's film | United States |
| Brácha za vsechny penize | Stanislav Strnad | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | arthouse science fiction film, art film, drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | art film, drama film | Germany |
| Woman Between Wolf and Dog | André Delvaux | drama film | France, Belgium |
| 21 Hours at Munich | William A. Graham | historical film | Germany |
| Late meeting | Vladimir Shredel | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Mad Max | George Miller | action film, dystopian film, thriller film, vigilante film | Australia |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Angry Man | Claude Pinoteau | drama film | France, Canada |
| Young Wife | Leonid Menaker | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| Kvinnene | Per Blom | drama film | Norway |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | mystery film | United States |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | romance film, drama film, flashback film | France |
| Bilet powrotny | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | drama film | Poland |
| Allegro s ognyom | Vladimir Strelkov | historical film, action film, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Mark Zakharov | romantic comedy film, satirical film, fantasy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic fantasy | Soviet Union |
| Ball Lightning | Ladislav Smoljak, Zdeněk Podskalský | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Blue Carbuncle | Nikolay Lukyanov | detective film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey | children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Camera Buff | Krzysztof Kieślowski | drama film | Poland |
| Chapter Two | Robert Moore | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Companys, procés a Catalunya | Josep Maria Forn | drama film, period drama film | Spain |
| Coriolanus | Wilford Leach | drama film | United States |
| Cossacks-Robbers | Valentin Kozachkov | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Cubit-Cubitan | Maman Firmansjah | drama film | Indonesia |
| De försvunna | Sergio Castilla | drama film | Cuba, Sweden |
| Dikaya okhota korolya Stakha | Valeri Rubinchik | drama film, mysticism | Soviet Union |
| Expertos en Pinchazos | Hugo Sofovich | comedy film | Argentina |
| Family Circle | — | family film | Soviet Union |
| Faratyev's Fantasies | Ilya Averbakh | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| G.I. Samurai | Kōsei Saitō | samurai cinema, kung fu film, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Hanging by a Thread | Georg Fenady | disaster film | United States |
| Iddaru Asadhyule | K. S. R. Das | — | India |
| Kaala Patthar | Yash Chopra | drama film, action film, disaster film | India |
| Karthika Deepam | Lakshmi Deepak | — | India |
| Live Long | Frunze Dovlatyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | drama film | India |
| Magnificent Butcher | Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Moy pervyy drug | Yakov Bazelyan | family film | Soviet Union |
| Mueda, Memória e Massacre | Ruy Guerra | drama film | Mozambique |
| Murmansk-198 | Arnold Altmäe | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| My Anfisa | Eduard Gavrilov | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nakts bez putniem | Gunārs Cilinskis | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Neighbors | Valeri Ponomarev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Nevesta dlya brata | — | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nine Days and the Whole Life | Yuri Zanin | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | drama film, vampire film | France, Germany |
| Otello | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Porridge | Dick Clement | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Ratataplan | Maurizio Nichetti | comedy film | Italy |
| Return Day | Dzmitry Zaytsaw | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Rope and Skin | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film | Japan |
| Savage Weekend | David Paulsen | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, slasher film | United States |
| Someone Else's Happiness (1978 film) | Kamara Kamalova | psychological drama film | Soviet Union |
| Tailcoat for shalopaya | Eldor Urazbayev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Take Me With You | Boris Rytsarev | — | Soviet Union |
| Target | Guido Zurli | detective film | Italy, Turkey |
| Tear Stains | Li Wenhua | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Test Tube | — | television art, satire | — |
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | sport film, family film, children's film, adventure film | United States |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | drama film, biographical film | France |
| The Capture of Bigfoot | Bill Rebane | horror film | United States |
| The Eighth Day | Anders Grönros | drama film | Sweden |
| The Man to Destroy | Veljko Bulajić | speculative fiction film | Yugoslavia |
| The Rose | Mark Rydell | drama film, musical film | United States |
| The Vinchel Affair | Avraham Heffner | drama film | Israel |
| The Wooden Gun | Ilan Moshenson | teen film | Israel |
| Tsirkachonok | Vladimir Bychkov, Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | drama film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Ty pomnish? | Oleg Nikolayevsky | drama film, melodrama, war film | Soviet Union |
| Ultraman | Akio Jissōji | science fiction film | Japan |
| When you are twelve years old | Kanymbek-Kano Kasymbekov | children's film | Soviet Union |