| Lady Sings the Blues | Sidney J. Furie | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Man of Iron | Hsueh-Li Pao, Chang Cheh | martial arts film, drama film, action film | British Hong Kong |
| Ocalenie | Edward Żebrowski | drama film | Poland |
| Man of the East | Enzo Barboni | comedy film, Spaghetti Western | France, Yugoslavia, Italy |
| Telegram (film) | Rolan Bykov | children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| A Marcha | Oswaldo Sampaio | drama film, historical film | Brazil |
| The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | fantasy film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Golden Egg Chicken | Mehdi Reisfirooz | — | Iran |
| Chato's Land | Michael Winner | Western film | United Kingdom |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, psychological drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Treasure Island | Yevgeni Fridman | adventure film | Soviet Union |
 Vampire Circus | Robert Young | horror film, vampire film | United Kingdom |
| King Boxer | Jeong Chang-hwa | martial arts film, drama film, action film | British Hong Kong |
| Taming of the Fire | Daniil Khrabrovitsky | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Happy Go Lucky | Vasily Shukshin | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Biscuit Eater | Vincent McEveety | drama film, family film | United States |
| The Water Margin | Chang Cheh, Wu Ma | martial arts film, wuxia | British Hong Kong |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | drama film, comedy film, speculative fiction film, war film, science fiction film, anti-war film, science fiction comedy | United States |
 Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| Les malheurs d'Alfred | Pierre Richard | comedy film | France |
| When the Heavens Fall... | Risto Jarva | drama film | Finland |
| A Soldier Came Back from the Front | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Norske byggklosser | Pål Bang-Hansen | comedy film | Norway |
| Russian field | Nikolay Moskalenko | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| To Find a Man | Buzz Kulik | coming-of-age film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Cowboys | Mark Rydell | Western film | United States |
 1776 | Peter H. Hunt | musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| A Teacher of Singing | Naum Birman | comedy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| After School | — | propaganda film | People's Republic of China |
| Amanie | Roger Gnoan Mbala | — | — |
| Atash | Iraj Ghaderi | — | Iran |
| Badi Panthulu | P. Chandrasekhara Reddy | — | India |
| Blacula | William Crain | vampire film, blaxploitation horror film | United States |
| Blood of Ghastly Horror | Al Adamson | horror film | United States |
| Ceplis | Rolands Kalniņš | crime film | Soviet Union, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Chronicle of Yerevan Days | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States |
| Cops Is Cops | Georges Lautner | mystery film, comedy film, crime film | France, Italy |
 Deep Throat | Gerard Damiano | pornographic film | United States |
| Defying Everybody | Yuri Ilyenko | drama film | Soviet Union, Yugoslavia |
| Demons of the Mind | Peter Sykes | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Dream Life | Mireille Dansereau | drama film | Canada |
| Every Little Crook and Nanny | Cy Howard | comedy film | United States |
| Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion | Shunya Itō | pink film, drama film, rape and revenge film, erotic thriller, thriller film, crime film | Japan |
| Hamisheh Ghahreman | Azizaleh Bahadori | drama film | Iran |
| Hassan Dynamite | Mehdi Mirsamadzadeh | — | Iran |
| Hayrik | Henrik Malyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Il coltello di ghiaccio | Umberto Lenzi | mystery film, horror film, thriller film, crime film | Spain, Italy |
| Images | Robert Altman | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Kanlı Para | Natuk Baytan | — | Turkey |
 Kyz-Zhibek | Sultan Khodzhikov | — | Soviet Union |
| L'aventure, c'est l'aventure | Claude Lelouch | comedy film | France, Italy |
 Lăutarii | Emil Loteanu | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mehdi in Black and Hot Mini Pants | Nezam Fatemi | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| Men | Edmond Keosayan | opera, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| One Is a Lonely Number | Mel Stuart | drama film | United States |
| Only You | Yevgeny Sherstobitov | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Ooh… You Are Awful | Cliff Owen | independent film | United Kingdom |
| Our Miss Fred | Bob Kellett | LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Papam Pasivadu | V. Ramachandra Rao | drama film | India |
 Pink Flamingos | John Waters | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| Repentance | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | drama film | Iran |
| Return | Arman Manaryan | — | Soviet Union |
 Roma | Federico Fellini | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Savages | James Ivory | comedy film | United States |
| Sev Kardeşim | Ertem Eğilmez | — | Turkey |
| Shok and Sher | Kanymbek-Kano Kasymbekov | drama film, family film | Soviet Union |
| Snow Job | George Englund | heist film | United States |
| Tatlı Dillim | Ertem Eğilmez | romantic comedy | Turkey |
| The Deer Hunt | Fadil Hadžić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| The Fearless Avenger | Kazuo Ikehiro | drama film | Japan |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | drama film, association football film | Germany, Austria |
| The House of Ghamar Khanum | Bahman Farmanara | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| The Man Who Had Fun! | Kostas Karagiannis | comedy film | Greece |
| The Manhunter | Don Taylor | — | United States |
 The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | drama film | Italy |
| The Morning of the Fourth Day | Kamran Shirdel | drama film, action film, crime film | Iran |
| The Possession of Joel Delaney | Waris Hussein | drama film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Vadim Gauzner | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Ribald Decameron | Giuseppe Vari | erotic film | Italy |
| The Triple Bed | Nosrat Karimi | romantic comedy film | Iran |
| The War Between Men and Women | Melville Shavelson | comedy film | United States |
| Up the Sandbox | Irvin Kershner | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? | Sergio Corbucci | comedy film, Western film, Spaghetti Western, adventure film, buddy film | Spain, Italy |