| 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 |
| Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti | Ralf Långbacka | drama film, comedy film, historical film | Finland, Sweden |
 Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | drama film, flashback film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | comedy drama | United States |
| Goin' South | Jack Nicholson | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Old Fashioned Comedy | Era Savelyeva, Tatyana Berezantseva | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Widow of Montiel | Miguel Littin | drama film | Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico |
| The Incredible Melting Man | William Sachs | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | France, Japan |
| Na pytlácké stezce | Václav Gajer | family film, children's film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |
| Monty Python’s Life of Brian | Terry Jones | comedy film, parody film, religious satire | United Kingdom |
| Avalanche Express | Mark Robson, Monte Hellman | action film, spy film, thriller film, disaster film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Drunken Master | Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |