| Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island | Teresa Griffiths | documentary film |
| Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 | Murray Lerner | — |
| Small Faces | Gillies MacKinnon | drama film |
| The Life Story of David Lloyd George | Maurice Elvey | drama film, historical film, silent film, biographical film |
| The Stupids | John Landis | adventure film |
| French Kiss | Lawrence Kasdan | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Funny Bones | Peter Chelsom | drama film, comedy film |
| Persuasion | Roger Michell | drama film |
| Pulse | David Mallet | progressive rock, documentary film |
| A Business Affair | Charlotte Brändström | romantic comedy |
| Captives | Angela Pope | romance film, drama film, prison film |
| Highlander III: The Sorcerer | Andy Morahan | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Like Two Crocodiles | Giacomo Campiotti | drama film |
| Priest | Antonia Bird | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| War of the Buttons | John Roberts | drama film |
| Dancing Queen | Nick Hamm | romantic comedy |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Kenneth Branagh | romantic comedy |
| Romeo Is Bleeding | Peter Medak | action film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, crime film |
| The Higher Mortals | Colin Finbow | — |
 The Innocent | John Schlesinger | drama film |
| The Snapper | Stephen Frears | comedy drama |
| Wittgenstein | Derek Jarman | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film |
| BBC: Realms of the Russian Bear | — | documentary film |
| Bitter Moon | Roman Polanski | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film, comedy drama |
| Dust Devil | Richard Stanley | satanic film, horror film |
| The Bridge | Syd Macartney | romance film, drama film |
| Dostoevsky's Travels | Paweł Pawlikowski | documentary film |
| Filipina Dreamgirls | Les Blair | romance film, mystery film, drama film, comedy film, war film, crime film |
| K2 | Franc Roddam | drama film, action film, adventure film |
| Rubin and Ed | Trent Harris | buddy film |
| An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | drama film, biographical film |
 Bullseye! | Michael Winner | comedy film, action film, spy film |
| Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | drama film, comedy film, buddy film, comedy drama |
| The Big Man | David Leland | drama film, sport film |
| The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia | Jan Švankmajer | — |
 The Field | Jim Sheridan | drama film |
| Truly, Madly, Deeply | Anthony Minghella | romance film, drama film, fantasy film |
| Dealers | Colin Bucksey | drama film |
| Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, medieval film |
| How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Bruce Robinson | comedy film |
| Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard | drama film |
| Pascali's Island | James Dearden | drama film |
| Willow | Ron Howard | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film |
| Grand Larceny | Jeannot Szwarc | heist film, crime film |
| Hope and Glory | John Boorman | drama film, comedy drama |
| The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Jack Clayton | drama film |
| The Misfit Brigade | Gordon Hessler | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film |