| Nashville | Robert Altman | drama film, musical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Lady of the Law | — | — | British Hong Kong |
| Las Vegas Lady | Noel Nosseck | crime film | United States |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | crime film | United States |
| Lotte in Weimar | Egon Günther | drama film, biographical film | East Germany |
| Los pájaros de Baden-Baden | Mario Camus | drama film | Spain, Switzerland |
| Front Without Flanks | Igor Gostev | partisan film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Bite the Bullet | Richard Brooks | Western film | United States |
| Capone | Steve Carver | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | action film, disaster film | United Kingdom |
| Teens in the Universe | Richard Viktorov | teen film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | drama film, biographical film, experimental film | Soviet Union |
| That Most Important Thing: Love | Andrzej Żuławski | romance film, drama film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Valka's Sails | Nikolay Zhukov | drama film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Jacob the Liar | Frank Beyer | drama film, comedy film | East Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | gothic horror film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film, parody film | United States |
The Land That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| At Home Among Strangers | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film, action film, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Northern Rhapsody | Eduard Abalov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Games Gamblers Play | Michael Hui | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| The Key Hole | Paul Gerber | comedy film, pornographic film, sex film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Zum Beispiel Josef | Erwin Stranka | — | East Germany |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | drama film, Western film, action film, thriller film, crime film | United States, Mexico |
| The Olsen gang meets the King and Jack | Knut Bohwim | crime comedy film | Norway |
| The Castaway Cowboy | Vincent McEveety | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The Tamarind Seed | Evelyn Anthony, Blake Edwards | melodrama, spy film | United States |
| Wiosna, panie sierzancie | Tadeusz Chmielewski | comedy film | Poland |
| Let's Relax Shorts Program | — | family film, traditionally animated film, compilation film | United States |
| Teenage Bride | — | drama film, sex film | United States |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | mystery film, drama film, film noir, crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| Only the Wind Knows the Answer | Alfred Vohrer | romance film, drama film, action film | France, Germany |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner | spy film | United States |
| Kora Kagaz | Anil Ganguly | drama film | India |
| Sokolovo | Otakar Vávra | drama film, historical film, war film | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
Sanshiro Sugata | Akira Kurosawa | martial arts film, action film, historical drama | Japan |
| The Silence of Dr. Evans | Budimir Metalnikov | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Spikes Gang | Richard Fleischer | Western film | United States |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Herbie Rides Again | Robert Stevenson | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, children's film, adventure film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Madhouse | Jim Clark | mystery film, horror film, slasher film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Ciemna rzeka | Sylwester Szyszko | war film | Poland |
| McQ | John Sturges | drama film, action film, crime film | United States |
| This Merry Planet | Yury Saakov, Yury Tsvyatkow | comedy film, science fiction film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | action film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | drama film, action film, sexploitation film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, women in prison film | British Hong Kong |
| I Had a Feeling I Was Dead | Wolf Gremm | drama film | Germany |
| Superdad | Vincent McEveety | comedy film | United States |