| Highschool Scramble | Yūsuke Watanabe | teen film | Japan |
| Premonition of Love | Tofik Shakhverdiyev | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | crime drama film, drama film, comedy film, black comedy film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | comedy film, action film, thriller film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession | Masaru Konuma | pink film, nunsploitation, erotic film | Japan |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Creepshow | George A. Romero | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, monster film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, ghost film, anthology film, science fiction film, black comedy film | United States |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Coast of Love | Charlotte Dubreuil | comedy film | France |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film | United States |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | spy film, thriller film, war film, crime film | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | Jean Yanne | comedy film | France |
| Vincent | Tim Burton | drama film, fantasy film, horror film | United States |
| Jönssonligan & Dynamit-Harry | Mikael Ekman | crime comedy film | Sweden |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| For Tor's Sake | Knut Andersen | drama film | Norway |
| Arabella, Daughter of a Pirate | Toomas Vohu, Peeter Simm, Ly Pulk | pirate film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy | United States |
| Tron | Steven Lisberger | cyberpunk, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Pink Floyd – The Wall | Alan Parker | art film, drama film, musical film | United Kingdom |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | drama film, historical film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Paradise | Stuart Gillard | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film | Canada |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Margarethe von Trotta | art film, drama film | Germany |
| Last Days of the Victim | Adolfo Aristarain | drama film, crime film | Argentina |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| La Soupe aux choux | Jean Girault | comedy film, science fiction film | France |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | drama film | Spain |
| Prince of the City | Sidney Lumet | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Death Wish II | Michael Winner | action film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film, crime film | United States |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United States |
| To Kill a Cop | Alain Delon | action film, crime film | France |
| And Now the Screaming Starts! | Roy Ward Baker | horror film, ghost film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Altered States | Ken Russell | science fiction horror film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| St. Tropez | Gérard Kikoïne | pornographic film | France |
| Until Death Do Us Part | Heiner Carow | romance film, drama film | East Germany |
| A Pool Without Water | Kōji Wakamatsu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| A Stranger Is Watching | Sean S. Cunningham | horror film | United States |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York | Stanislav Látal | puppet film, drama film, animated film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film | France |
| Author! Author! | Arthur Hiller | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Battletruck | Harley Cokeliss | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States, New Zealand |
| Better Late Than Never | Bryan Forbes | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Bheegi Palkein | Sisir Mishra | — | India |
| Blood Song | Alan J. Levi | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Bolero | Rüdiger Nüchtern | melodrama | Germany, Switzerland, West Germany |
| Breathless | Mady Saks | drama film | Netherlands |
| Cat vs. Rat | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Constellation of Rifleman | Juris Podnieks | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film | United States |
| Devata | K. Raghavendra Rao | drama film | India |
| Doubles | Leo Karpin | comedy film, melodrama, musical film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Dykhanie grozy | Viktor Turov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | mystery film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat | Savva Kulish | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today | Helena Solberg | documentary film | United States |
| Gikor | Sergei Israelyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | drama film | Italy |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | documentary film | France |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, detective film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| I Don't Want to Be an Adult | Yuri Chulyukin | comedy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Il tifoso | Pier Francesco Pingitore | comedy film, association football film | Italy |
| Inspector Losev | — | detective film | Soviet Union |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film | France |
| Las orgías inconfesables de Emmanuelle | Jesús Franco | erotic film | Spain |
| My Family | Pēteris Krilovs | — | Soviet Union |
| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Henry Jaglom, Bob Giraldi | parody film | United States |
| Once Upon a Dog | Eduard Nazarov | comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| One True Love | Mark Osepyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Semero soldatikov | Eduard Bocharov | family film | Soviet Union |
| Seven Beauties | Felix Slidovker | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Sitadevi | — | — | India |
| Stella | Thomas Langhoff | — | East Germany |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | drama film, historical film | France, Italy |
| The English Waltz | Gytis Lukšas | — | Soviet Union |
| The Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Rooks | Konstantin Yershov | mystery film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Scorpion with Two Tails | Sergio Martino | horror film | Italy |
| The Tereon’s Head | Varis Brasla | drama film, family film | Soviet Union |
| The Uncouth Ones | Osman F. Seden | — | Turkey |
| Trail of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | comedy film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| True of Lieutenant Klimov | Oleg Dashkevich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Vasiliy Buslaev | Gennady Vasilyev | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Yes, Giorgio | Franklin J. Schaffner | musical film, romantic comedy | United States, Italy |