| Antarctica | Koreyoshi Kurahara | drama film, adventure film | Japan |
| Mundhanai Mudichu | K. Bhagyaraj | romantic comedy film, comedy film | India |
| Without Witness | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Ladies' Tango | Sulambek Mamilov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Gudachari No.1 | Kodi Ramakrishna | spy film | India |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | romance film, adventure film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | George Miller, Joe Dante, John Landis, Steven Spielberg | time-travel film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, anthology film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Outsiders | Francis Ford Coppola | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Hot Dreams | Shaun Costello | drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| The Terry Fox Story | Ralph L. Thomas | athletics film, drama film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Still Smokin | Tommy Chong | comedy film | United States |
| Inflation im Paradies | Susanne Blänkner, Wolfgang Ruehl, Richard L. Wagner, Nikolai Müllerschön | drama film, anthology film | Germany |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Jack Clayton | fantasy film, horror film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Ken Finkleman | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| An Officer and a Gentleman | Taylor Hackford | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Happy We | Lasse Hallström | drama film | Sweden |
 The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | fantasy film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Estrangeira | João Mário Grilo | drama film | Portugal |
 Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Private Eyes | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| The Lords of Discipline | Franc Roddam | drama film | United States |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| Second Dance | Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson | drama film | Sweden |
 Videodrome | David Cronenberg | body horror film, science fiction horror film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, desire horror fiction, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film | Canada, United States |
| Theater of Life | Kinji Fukasaku, Junya Satō, Sadao Nakajima | — | Japan |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear | — | animated film | Australia |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Danton | Andrzej Wajda | drama film, historical film, biographical film | France, Germany, Poland |
| Rope and Breasts | Masaru Konuma | pink film | Japan |
| First Blood | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, action film, war film, action thriller | United States |
| 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 |