| 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 |
| K-9 and Company | John Black | science fiction | United Kingdom |
| The Christening Party | Zdeněk Podskalský | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| Buddy Buddy | Billy Wilder | buddy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | drama film | Poland |
 The Little Fox | Attila Dargay | drama film, fantasy film, children's film | Hungary |
| The Fox and the Hound | Richard Rich, Art Stevens, Ted Berman | coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, buddy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Train spécial pour SS | Alain Payet | drama film, sexploitation film, thriller film, war film, Nazi exploitation | France |
| Varning för Jönssonligan | Jonas Cornell | crime comedy film | Sweden, Denmark |
| They Were Actors | Georgi Natanson | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Chōkō | Masashi Sada | documentary film | People's Republic of China, Japan |
| Kočičí princ | Ota Koval | cinematic fairy tale, children's film | East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| The Last Metro | François Truffaut | romance film, art film, drama film, war film | France |
| Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | drama film, detective film, crime film | United States |
| Za trnkovým keřem | Václav Gajer | family film, children's film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |