| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | Germany, United States, Sweden |
| Armed and Dangerous | Vladimir Vajnshtok | Western film | Soviet Union |
| Sins of Sister Lucia | Kōyū Ohara | lesbian-related film, Nikkatsu Roman Porno, pink film, nunsploitation, softcore pornography, sexploitation film | Japan |
 The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | parody film | United States |
| The War in Space | Jun Fukuda | adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | drama film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Sprawa Gorgonowej | Janusz Majewski | legal drama | Poland |
| The Dream of the Red Chamber | Li Han-hsiang | romance film, drama film, tragedy, musical film | British Hong Kong |
| How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder | Nadezhda Kosheverova | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Rudin | Konstantin Voinov | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Death of a President | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | drama film, horror film, ghost film | United States |
| Øyeblikket | Sverre Udnæs | drama film | Norway |
| White Bim Black Ear | Stanislav Rostotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Devil's Island | Kon Ichikawa | — | Japan |
| Judgement of an Assassin | Sun Chung | — | British Hong Kong |
| Powrót | Filip Bajon | slice of life | Poland |
| Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | horror film, comedy horror | Japan |
| Oczy uroczne | Piotr Szulkin | horror film | Poland |
| Night Over Chile | Aleksandr Kosarev, Sebastián Alarcón | drama film, action film, thriller film | Soviet Union, Chile |
| Exorcist II: The Heretic | Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stunts | Mark L. Lester | mystery film | United States |
| Magnificent Wanderers | Chang Cheh | — | Hong Kong |
 Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | comedy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | George Lucas | coming-of-age film, action film, adventure film, space opera, science fiction film | United States |
| Screen Tests | Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Domaradzki | drama film | Poland |
| Face to Face | Ingmar Bergman | drama film, horror film | Sweden |
| The Question | Laurent Heynemann | drama film | France |
| The Princess and the Pea | Boris Rytsarev | romance film, fantasy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Baghdasar Divorces from His Wife | Grigori Melik-Avakyan | music-themed film | Soviet Union |
| Aty-baty, shli soldaty... | Leonid Bykov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | drama film, spy film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Shaolin Plot | Huang Feng | martial arts film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | art film, drama film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Duck Village. A Tale. | Boriss Bunejev | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, mecha | Japan |
| Mormor og de åtte ungene i byen | Espen Thorstenson | family film, children's film | Norway |
 The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| The Squeeze | Michael Apted | crime film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Fekete gyémántok | Zoltán Várkonyi | romance film, drama film | Hungary |
| Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, Germany, Australia |
| Queen of the Gypsies | Emil Loteanu | romance film, drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
 Andy Warhol's Bad | Jed Johnson | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |