| Emergency Exit | Roman Załuski | comedy film | Poland |
| Wrong Is Right | Richard Brooks | comedy film | United States |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Lets Be More Clever Next Time, Buddy! | Petr Schulhoff | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches | Markku Lehmuskallio | nature documentary | Finland, Sweden |
| White Dog | Samuel Fuller | drama film, horror film | United States |
| Ceylon My Love | Jacques Orth, Hubert Frank | romance film, drama film, sex film, adventure film | France, Spain, Switzerland |
 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 |
| Through the Fire | Leonid Pavlovich Makarychev | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Henry's Back Room | Gianni Lepre | drama film | Norway |
| Firefox | Clint Eastwood | action film, spy film, thriller film | United States |
| Fathers and Grandfathers | Yuri Yegorov | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Smiley's People | Simon Langton | — | United Kingdom |
 Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | France, Germany |
 The Taming of the Scoundrel | Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | comedy film | Italy |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Sabine Kleist, 7 Jahre... | Helmut Dziuba | children's film | East Germany |
| Arabella, Daughter of a Pirate | Toomas Vohu, Peeter Simm, Ly Pulk | pirate film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| La bête | Walerian Borowczyk | fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film, erotic film | France |
 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | mystery film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| 50/50 | Oddvar Bull Tuhus | drama film | Norway |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Last Horror Film | David Winters | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard | comedy film | United States |
| Vietnam Requiem | Bill Couturié, Jonas McCord | documentary film | United States |
| Zelená vlna | Václav Vorlíček | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | drama film, medieval film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Bu gu cui chun | Jia Shihong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Manal Kayiru | Visu | comedy drama | India |
| 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 |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | romance film, drama film, war film, biographical film | United States |
| Dragon Lord | Jackie Chan | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film | United States |
 Banana Joe | Steno | comedy film | Germany, Italy |
 Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| Engler i sneen | Haakon Sandøy | — | Norway |
| Standing Alone | Colin Low | documentary film | Canada |
| Waiting for Love | Pyotr Todorovsky | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Diner | Barry Levinson | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| The Last Hard Men | Andrew V. McLaglen | Western film | United States |
 To Kill a Cop | Alain Delon | action film, crime film | France |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show | United States |
| Arthur | Steve Gordon | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
 Sisters | Brian De Palma | exploitation film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film, psychological drama film, slasher film | United States |
| St. Tropez | Gérard Kikoïne | pornographic film | France |
| Aces Go Places | Eric Tsang | action comedy film, adventure film, parody film | British Hong Kong |
| Until Death Do Us Part | Heiner Carow | romance film, drama film | East Germany |
| A Child's World | Valery Kremnyov | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York | Stanislav Látal | puppet film, drama film, animated film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |
| Along Unknown Paths | Mikhail Yuzovsky | fantasy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| An Egyptian Story | Youssef Chahine | LGBTQ-related film | Egypt |
| Ator l'invincibile | Joe D'Amato | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film | Italy |
| Barbarosa | Fred Schepisi | Western film | United States |
| 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 |
| Bosco d'amore | Alberto Bevilacqua | historical film | Italy |
| Breathless | Mady Saks | drama film | Netherlands |
| Cat vs. Rat | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Cecilia | Humberto Solás | drama film | Cuba |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | documentary film | United States |
| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film | United States |
| Early Frost | — | — | Australia |
| Flights in Dreams and Reality | Roman Balayan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Forgotten Things | Vija Beinerte | comedy film | Soviet Union |
 Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| La bête lumineuse | Pierre Perrault | documentary film | Canada |
| Legendary Weapons of China | Lau Kar-leung | kung fu film | Hong Kong |
| Living Rainbow | Natalya Bondarchuk | — | Soviet Union |
| Lullabye for Brother | Viktor Volkov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Lyudmila (film) | — | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mansion of the Living Dead | Jesús Franco | horror film, sexploitation film, zombie film | Spain |
| Married Bachelor | Vladimir Rogovoy | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Memphis Cathouse Blues | — | pornographic film | United States |
| My Family | Pēteris Krilovs | — | Soviet Union |
| Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures | Herbert Ross | comedy drama | United States |
| Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | Bonnie Sherr Klein | documentary film | Canada |
| One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Pandemonium | Alfred Sole | horror film | United States |
 Piratensender Powerplay | Sigi Rothemund | comedy film | Germany |
| Road Inspector | Eldor Urazbayev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Sciopèn | Luciano Odorisio | comedy film | Italy |
| Servantes iz Malog Mista | Daniel Marušić | comedy film | Yugoslavia |
| Seven Beauties | Felix Slidovker | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Simply Awful! | Aleksandr Polynnikov | comedy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Sonjas Rapport | Bernhard Stephan | — | — |
| The Rooks | Konstantin Yershov | mystery film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Verdict | Sidney Lumet | drama film, trial film | United States |
| The Warning | Juan Antonio Bardem | historical film | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union, East Germany |
| Thyagi | C. V. Rajendran | action film | India |
| Unknown Chaplin | Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | comedy film, biographical film, documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Vot takiye chudesa | Yefim Galperin | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Zvyozdnaya komandirovka | Borys Ivchenko | comedy film | Soviet Union |