| Granddaughter of Ice | Boris Rytsarev | fantasy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, jiangshi fiction, fantasy film, action film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| Ogaryova Street, Number 6 | Boris Grigoryev | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Fox hunting | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Age of the Earth | Glauber Rocha | drama film | Brazil |
| The Umbrella Coup | Gérard Oury | comedy film, crime film | France |
| Shogun Assassin | Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston | samurai cinema, Jidaigeki | Japan, United States |
| I Hate Blondes | Giorgio Capitani | comedy film | France, Germany, Italy |
The Blues Brothers | John Landis | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Island | Michael Ritchie | horror film, pirate film, thriller film | United States |
| Csontváry | Zoltán Huszárik | drama film | Hungary |
| Fame | Alan Parker | teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Brass Target | John Hough | drama film, war film, crime film | United States |
| Borrowing Matchsticks | Leonid Gaidai, Risto Orko | comedy film, historical film, adventure film | Soviet Union, Finland |
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | drama film | United States |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | horror film | Australia |
| The Seventh Company Outdoors | Robert Lamoureux | comedy film | France |
Asylum | Roy Ward Baker | horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | comedy film, action film, adventure film, road movie | South Africa, Botswana |
| Rape of Love | Yannick Bellon | drama film | France |
| La elva leve! | Bredo Greve | drama film | Norway |
| Shaolin Daredevils | Chang Cheh | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Dragon Fist | Lo Wei | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Radio On | Chris Petit | mystery film, drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| Kind Men | Karen Shakhnazarov | satirical film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Avenging Eagle | Sun Chung | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Jerk | Carl Reiner | screwball comedy film | United States |
| The Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng Hua | kaiju, horror film | Hong Kong |
| The Heiresses | Márta Mészáros | drama film | France, Hungary |
| The Mountain Men | Richard Lang | Western film | United States |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | drama film, hood film | United Kingdom |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | drama film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller | United Kingdom |
| Caligula | Bob Guccione | exploitation film, drama film, pornographic film, LGBTQ-related film, erotic film, biographical film | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Onna no Hosomichi: Nureta Kaikyo | — | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Battle of the Eagles | Hajrudin Krvavac | drama film, war film | Yugoslavia |
| The Electric Horseman | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| The Wife Has Left | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Escape from Hell | Edoardo Mulargia | drama film, thriller film, women in prison film, crime film | Spain, Italy |
| The Brood | David Cronenberg | body horror film, science fiction horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, horror film, thriller film, independent film, science fiction film | Canada |
| Evening Rain | Wu Yonggang, Wu Yigong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Mad Monkey Kung Fu | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, comedy film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Sex with a Smile II | Sergio Martino | comedy film | Italy |
| Pani Mariya | Natalya Troshchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| The Seventh-Rank Sesame Seed-Sized Official | Xie Tian | musical film, comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| Right On, Man! | Tapio Suominen | teen film, drama film | Finland |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, detective film, crime film | Germany, United States, West Germany |
| With Shared Love | Sergey Mikaelyan | drama film | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| The Cat from Outer Space | Norman Tokar | comedy film, children's film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Midnight Madness | Michael Nankin | teen film, comedy film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Hot Lead and Cold Feet | Robert Butler | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The Amityville Horror | Stuart Rosenberg | horror film, ghost film, psychological thriller | United States |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | drama film, heist film | Canada |
| 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 |
| Alyosha | Viktor Obukhov | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| American Pop | Ralph Bakshi | drama film, live-action/animated film, musical film | United States |
| Así No Hay Cama Que Aguante | Hugo Sofovich | comedy film | Argentina |
| Aziza | Abdellatif Ben Ammar | drama film | Tunisia |
| Baradarkoshi | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film | Iran |
| Beyond Evil | Herb Freed | horror film | United States |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | trial film | Australia |
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Challenger: An Industrial Romance | Michael Rubbo | documentary film | Canada |
| Chrezvychaynye obstoyatelstva | Yevgeny Vasilyev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Citizen Lyoshka | Viktor Kryuchkov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Control Strip | — | mystery film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Cordélia | Jean Beaudin | drama film | Canada |
| El Salvador: El pueblo vencerà | Diego de la Texera | documentary film | El Salvador |
| Ellis Island Revisited | Georges Perec, Robert Bober | documentary film | France |
| Fantastica | Gilles Carle | musical film | France, Canada |
From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Germany, Sweden |
| Fumoon | Osamu Tezuka | science fiction film | Japan |
| Gigolo and Gigolette | Alexander Belinsky | ballet film | Soviet Union |
| Good Riddance | Francis Mankiewicz | drama film | Canada |
| Hero at Large | Martin Davidson | superhero film | United States |
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | drama film | United States |
| I Love You All | Claude Berri | drama film | France |
| In and Out of Court | Lu Xiaoya | trial film | People's Republic of China |
| In God We Tru$t | Marty Feldman | comedy film | United States |
| Judaai | Tatineni Rama Rao | — | India |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy | United States |
| Ka Kee | — | fantasy film | Thailand |
| Kanikuly Krosha | Grigori Aronov | teen film, family film, detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Khleb, zoloto, nagan | Samvel Gasparov | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Ladies Invite Gentlemen | Ivan Kiasashvili | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Le fils puni | Philippe Collin | drama film | France |
| Los Hijos de López | Enrique Dawi | comedy film | Argentina |
| Night Accident | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Oh, God! Book II | Gilbert Cates | fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film | United States |
| Rafferty | Semyon Aranovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Resurrection | Daniel Petrie | drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| Ripe Strawberries | — | comedy film, short film | United States |
| Rockshow | Paul McCartney | musical film, documentary film | United States |
| Rough Cut | Robert Ellis Miller, Don Siegel | mystery film, heist film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Simon | Marshall Brickman | science fiction comedy | United States |
| Snow Kid | Lin Wenxiao | — | People's Republic of China |
| Strannyy otpusk | Ihor Vietrov, Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | novella film | Soviet Union |
| Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński | — | Poland |
| Teddy Bear | Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Polish People's Republic |
| The Cheeky Chap | Yung-Chang Li | comedy film | Hong Kong |
| The Cowards | Avi Nesher | romance film | Israel |
| The Eighth Day of Creation | Suren Babayan | — | Soviet Union |
| The Evening Labyrinth | Boris Bushmelev | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| 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 Tenth Bullet Scar | Ai Shui | crime drama film | People's Republic of China |
| 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 |
| Workers '80 | Andrzej Zajączkowski, Andrzej Chodakowski | documentary film | Poland |