 The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | parody film | United States |
| The War in Space | Jun Fukuda | adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | drama film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Sprawa Gorgonowej | Janusz Majewski | legal drama | Poland |
| The Dream of the Red Chamber | Li Han-hsiang | romance film, drama film, tragedy, musical film | British Hong Kong |
| How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder | Nadezhda Kosheverova | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Rudin | Konstantin Voinov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a President | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | drama film, horror film, ghost film | United States |
| Øyeblikket | Sverre Udnæs | drama film | Norway |
| White Bim Black Ear | Stanislav Rostotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Devil's Island | Kon Ichikawa | — | Japan |
| Judgement of an Assassin | Sun Chung | — | British Hong Kong |
| Powrót | Filip Bajon | slice of life | Poland |
| Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | horror film, comedy horror | Japan |
| Oczy uroczne | Piotr Szulkin | horror film | Poland |
| Night Over Chile | Aleksandr Kosarev, Sebastián Alarcón | drama film, action film, thriller film | Soviet Union, Chile |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stunts | Mark L. Lester | mystery film | United States |
| Magnificent Wanderers | Chang Cheh | — | Hong Kong |
 Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | comedy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | George Lucas | coming-of-age film, action film, adventure film, space opera, science fiction film | United States |
| Screen Tests | Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Domaradzki | drama film | Poland |
| Face to Face | Ingmar Bergman | drama film, horror film | Sweden |
| The Question | Laurent Heynemann | drama film | France |
| The Princess and the Pea | Boris Rytsarev | romance film, fantasy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife | Grigori Melik-Avakyan | music-themed film | Soviet Union |
| Aty-baty, shli soldaty... | Leonid Bykov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | drama film, spy film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Shaolin Plot | Huang Feng | martial arts film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | art film, drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Duck Village. A Tale. | Boriss Bunejev | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, mecha | Japan |
| Mormor og de åtte ungene i byen | Espen Thorstenson | family film, children's film | Norway |
 The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Squeeze | Michael Apted | crime film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Fekete gyémántok | Zoltán Várkonyi | romance film, drama film | Hungary |
| Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, Germany, Australia |
| Queen of the Gypsies | Emil Loteanu | romance film, drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
 Andy Warhol's Bad | Jed Johnson | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| Agha-ye Lor be shahr miravad | Amir Shervan | drama film, thriller film | Iran |
| Autumn Sun | Bagrat Hovhannisyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Bag of the Collector | Avgust Baltrušaitis | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Dar shahr khabari nist | Mehdi Fakhimzadeh | — | Iran |
| Do kalle-shagh | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Eros School: Feels So Good | Koretsugu Kurahara | pink film, erotic film | Japan |
| Fire! | Earl Bellamy | action film, disaster film | United States |
| Galatea | Alexander Belinsky | ballet film | Soviet Union |
| Gde ty, Bagira? | Vladimir Levin | family film | Soviet Union |
| Golden Mine | Evgeny Tatarsky | mystery film | Soviet Union |
| Grey | Taghi Mokhtar | — | Iran |
| Günlarin bir günü | Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, Yuli Gusman | — | Soviet Union |
| Happy Merry-Go-Round No.9 | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Hershele | Joel Silberg | — | Israel |
| Jay-e amn | Morteza Aghili | — | Iran |
| Kan Kardeşler | Ertem Göreç | — | Turkey, Iran |
| Khoda ghovvat | Abbas Kasayi | — | Iran |
| Koose-ye Jonoob | Samuel Khachikian | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Iran |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds | Junji Kurata | fantasy film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | Japan |
 Les Ambassadeurs | Naceur Ktari | drama film | France |
| Man of God | Reza Safaei | — | Iran |
| Mustached Nanny | Vladimir Grammatikov | comedy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| On Thursday and Never Again | Anatoly Efros | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Osvobození Prahy | Otakar Vávra | drama film, historical film, war film | East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Parrot | Zackaria Hashemi | drama film | Iran |
| Pasja | Stanisław Różewicz | biographical film | Poland |
| Pendekar | M. Amin | — | Malaysia |
| Po semeynym obstoyatelstvam | Aleksey Korenev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Qarib cinlar diyarinda | Alisattar Atakishiyev | comedy film, cinematic fairy tale, speculative fiction film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Scent of Wheat | Farzan Deljou | drama film | Iran |
| Shab-e aftabi | Sirus Alvand | — | Iran |
| Spoiled Children | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film | France |
| Spring Selection | Pavel Lyubimov | war film | Soviet Union |
| Stone Valley | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Telefon | Don Siegel | action film, crime film | United States |
| The Apple Game | Věra Chytilová | drama film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | drama film, children's film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Big Silence | Mahmoud Koushan | — | Iran |
| The Cry Under Water | Sirus Alvand | romance film, drama film, crime film | Iran |
| The Garden | Victor Nord | drama film | Israel |
| The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Hunters | Thodoros Angelopoulos | drama film | France, Greece |
| The Simple Past | Michel Drach | romance film, drama film | France |
| Tourists Want Sex | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Trans-Siberian Express | Eldor Urazbayev | action film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ves mir v glazakh tvoikh | Stanislav Klymenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Veter 'Nadezhdy' | Stanislav Govorukhin | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Yeki khosh seda, yeki khosh dast | Reza Safaei | crime film | Iran |