| Bez milosci | Barbara Sass | drama film | Poland |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, jiangshi fiction, fantasy film, action film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
| Any Which Way You Can | Buddy Van Horn | comedy film, action film, buddy film, boxing film | United States |
| Far from Home | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | drama film | Germany, Iran |
| Late Dates | Vladimir Grigoryev | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| La provinciale | Claude Goretta | drama film | France, Switzerland |
| Vanessa | Hubert Frank | drama film, sexploitation film | Germany |
| The Awakening | Mike Newell | fantasy film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Inventor | Kurt Gloor | drama film, comedy drama | Switzerland |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | exploitation film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, teen film, mystery film, crime thriller film, horror film, thriller film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film+1 | United States |
| Burlesque | René Cardona | musical film | Mexico |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| Fame | Alan Parker | teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Pilla Zamindar | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | comedy film | India |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film, supernatural horror film, psychological drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | horror film | Australia |
| Spotkanie na Atlantyku | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Dumbrava minunata | Gheorghe Naghi | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, musical film | Romania |
| A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, historical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | drama film, war film | Taiwan |
| First Time Married | Iosif Kheifits | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Philippe de Broca | comedy film | France |
| The Lifeguard | Sergei Solovyov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film | France, Sweden |
| Petrovka, 38 | Boris Grigoryev | detective film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Frankenstein: Italian Style | Armando Crispino | comedy film, comedy horror, erotic film | Italy |
| Romance on Lushan Mountain | Huang Zumo | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| Kind Men | Karen Shakhnazarov | satirical film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film | Italy |
| Pogonya v stepi | Abdulla Karsakbayev | historical film, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | comedy horror, thriller film, slasher film | United States |
| Air Crew | Alexander Mitta | disaster film | Soviet Union |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| The Magician of Lublin | Menahem Golan | drama film | Germany, Israel |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| The Wife Has Left | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Daffy Duck's Easter Show | Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| 1941 | Steven Spielberg | screwball comedy film, Christmas film, war film | United States |
| Întoarcerea lui Voda Lapusneanu | Malvina Urșianu | historical film | Romania |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur | Hiroshi Fukutomi | science fiction | Japan |
| Evening Rain | Wu Yonggang, Wu Yigong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Us Two | Claude Lelouch | drama film | France, Canada |
| Pani Mariya | Natalya Troshchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Rape Ceremony | Kichitarō Negishi | pink film | Japan |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, detective film, crime film | Germany, United States, West Germany |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Oh dolci baci e languide carezze | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, sex film | Italy |
| The Concorde ... Airport '79 | David Lowell Rich | drama film, action film, disaster film | United States |
| The Rabbit Case | Jaromil Jireš | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| Firepower | Michael Winner | thriller film, heist film | United Kingdom |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | drama film, heist film | Canada |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| 31. osakonna hukk | Peeter Urbla | crime film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| 5 and 5 | Shmuel Imberman | musical film | Israel |
| A los cirujanos se les va la mano | Hugo Sofovich | comedy film | Argentina |
| A Summer in the Country | Roberto Girometti | comedy film, sex film | France, Italy |
| A Week's Vacation | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film | France |
| Baradarkoshi | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film | Iran |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | trial film | Australia |
| Challenger: An Industrial Romance | Michael Rubbo | documentary film | Canada |
| City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | zombie film, splatter film | Italy |
| Control Strip | — | mystery film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Cordélia | Jean Beaudin | drama film | Canada |
| Cunning Female, Mischievous Woman | Kostas Karagiannis | romance film, comedy film | Greece |
| Dealing with the Devil | Lin Lan | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | drama film, thriller film | Sweden |
| Fun Is Beautiful | Carlo Verdone | comedy film | Italy |
| Gamera: Super Monster | Noriaki Yuasa | kaiju, fantasy film, adventure film | Japan |
| Ghiam | Reza Safaei | — | Iran |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Good Riddance | Francis Mankiewicz | drama film | Canada |
| Heroes Shed No Tears | Chor Yuen | action film | Hong Kong |
| If I Were the Boss... | Albert S. Mkrtchyan | — | Soviet Union |
| In and Out of Court | Lu Xiaoya | trial film | People's Republic of China |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | drama film, horror film, adventure film | Italy |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy | United States |
| Kanikuly Krosha | Grigori Aronov | teen film, family film, detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Larisa | Elem Klimov | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Les | Vladimir Motyl | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Oleh Biima | opera film | Soviet Union |
| Making 'The Shining' | Vivian Kubrick | behind-the-scenes film, documentary film | United States |
| Mirage Above the Gobi Desert | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Mstislav Keldysh | Gennady Raspopov | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Particularly Important Task | Yevgeny Matveyev | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Programmed for Pleasure | Claude Mulot | pornographic film | France |
| Punnami Naagu | Rajashekar | horror film | India |
| Ripe Strawberries | — | comedy film, short film | United States |
| Rough Cut | Robert Ellis Miller, Don Siegel | mystery film, heist film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński | — | Poland |
| Tanya's Island | Alfred Sole | drama film, fantasy film | Canada, United States |
| Teddy Bear | Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Polish People's Republic |
| Thanassis, Tighten Your Belt Some More | Thodoros Maragos | drama film, comedy film | Greece |
| The Cheeky Chap | Yung-Chang Li | comedy film | Hong Kong |
| The Department | Brian Bell | — | Australia |
| The Fairfax Millions | Nikolai Ilyinsky | crime film | Soviet Union |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | drama film, comedy film, erotic film, biographical film | France |
| The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Night the City Screamed | Harry Falk | drama film | United States |
| The Orion Loop | Vasili Levin | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Raven's Dance | Markku Lehmuskallio | drama film | Finland |
| The Space Movie | Tony Palmer | documentary film | United States |
| The Star Inspector (1980) | Vladimir Polin, Mark Kovalyov | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Times Square | Allan Moyle | lesbian-related film, teen film, queer film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Tous vedettes! | Michel Lang | — | France |
| Vacation in Prostokvashino | Vladimir Popov | family film, fairy tale | Soviet Union |