| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| The Man Who Loved Women | François Truffaut | flashback film, romantic comedy | France |
| The Wind of Travel | Yuri Yegorov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Just like Home | Márta Mészáros | drama film | Hungary |
| Cekání na dést | Karel Kachyňa | drama film, children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | drama film | France, Germany |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Det andre skiftet | Lasse Glomm | drama film | Norway |
| The Driver | Walter Hill | drama film, action film, neo-noir, thriller film, heist film, crime film | United States |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Contract | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Wodzirej | Feliks Falk | slice of life | Polish People's Republic |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Yuga Purushudu | Kovelamudi Bapayya | action film | India |
 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, action film, children's film | United States |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | American football film, fantasy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Nathalie rescapée de l'enfer | Alain Payet | Nazi exploitation | France |
 Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | drama film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Tajemství Ocelového mesta | Ludvík Ráža | adventure film, science fiction film | Czechoslovakia |
| Septembrie | Timotei Ursu | drama film | Socialist Republic of Romania |
| En och en | Ingrid Thulin, Sven Nykvist, Erland Josephson | drama film | Sweden |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Men Can't Be Raped | Jörn Donner | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| Formynderne | Nicole Macé | drama film | Norway |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | Germany, United States, Sweden |
| Armed and Dangerous | Vladimir Vajnshtok | Western film | Soviet Union |
| Sins of Sister Lucia | Kōyū Ohara | lesbian-related film, Nikkatsu Roman Porno, pink film, nunsploitation, softcore pornography, sexploitation film | Japan |
| 1922 | Nikos Koundouros | drama film | Greece |
| 2 Champions of Shaolin | Chang Cheh | drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| A Dog walked along the Piano | Vladimir Grammatikov | teen film, romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| An Unremarkable Birth | Diane Beaudry | — | Canada |
| Aniskin Again | Vitaly Ivanov, Mikhail Zharov | mystery film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Attacked!! | Yasuharu Hasebe | pink film, erotic thriller | Japan |
| Avalanche | Corey Allen | action film, thriller film, disaster film | United States |
| Bataille de la Châteauguay | Marcel Carrière | — | Canada |
| Breathtaking | Mahmoud Koushan | action film, thriller film | Iran |
| Centaurs | Sándor Köő, Vytautas Žalakevičius | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Colombia |
| Dang Ding Dong | Hasmanan | comedy film | Indonesia |
| Day of the Killer Tornadoes | — | documentary film | United States |
| Five Evenings | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Fotógrafo de señoras | Hugo Moser | comedy film | Argentina |
| Happy Days | Orhan Aksoy | comedy film | Turkey |
| Happy Merry-Go-Round No.10 | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg | Patrice Rhomm, Alain Payet | sexploitation film, Nazi exploitation, women in prison film | France |
| Hooper | Hal Needham | action film, action comedy film | United States |
| Konets imperatora taygi | Vladimir Saroukhanov | biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Krasavets-muzhchina | Margarita Mikaelyan | musical film | Soviet Union |
| La Carapate | Gérard Oury | comedy film | France |
| Little Man | Ze'ev Revach | drama film | Israel |
| Naked Comes the Huntress | Huang Feng | action film | Hong Kong |
| Natalka Poltavka | Rodion Yefymenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Nicole | István Ventilla | erotic thriller | United States |
| Parvaz dar ghafas | Habib Kavosh | — | Iran |
| Po ulitsam komod vodili... | Mark Genin | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Rallijs | Aloizs Brenčs | — | Soviet Union |
| Rasmus-brodyaga | Mariya Muat | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Renoir, My Father | Alan Cooke | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | teen film, musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Rope Hell | Kōyū Ohara | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Same Time, Next Year | Robert Mulligan | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Shaolin Handlock | Ho Meng Hua | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Sky Became Clear | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Slumrande toner | Johan Bergenstråhle | drama film | Sweden |
| Stowaway | Yuri Pobedonostsev | romantic comedy film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Sultan | Kartal Tibet | comedy drama | Turkey |
| Tall Shadows of the Wind | Bahman Farmanara | drama film, horror film | Iran |
| Thacholi Ambu | Navodaya Appachan | — | India |
| The Five Colours of the Rainbow | B. Nagnaidorj | biographical film | Mongolian People's Republic |
| The Late Berry | Fyodor Filippov | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Theatre | Jānis Streičs | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| To the Last Breath | Kamran Qadakchian | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Trishul | Yash Chopra | drama film, action film | India |
| Ukhodya - ukhodi | Viktor Tregubovich | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Uncle Joe Shannon | Joseph C. Hanwright | drama film | United States |
| Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom | Peter Nestler | documentary film | Sweden |
| Vahşi Gelin | Osman F. Seden | comedy drama | Turkey |
| Versiya polkovnika Zorina | Andrey Ladynin | mystery film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Which Way to the Septic Tank? | Thodoros Maragos | comedy film | Greece |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Zhivite v radosti | Leonid Sergeevich Millionshchikov | comedy film | Soviet Union |