| Za trnkovým keřem | Václav Gajer | family film, children's film, adventure film | Czechoslovakia |
| Zach King's Day Off | Zach King, Sam Wickert | comedy film, parody film | United States |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Kevin Smith | drama film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
 Zakazane piosenki | Leonard Buczkowski | musical film | Poland |
| Zapped Again! | Doug Campbell | science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Zarafa | Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie | children's film, adventure film | France, Belgium |
| Zare | Hamo Beknazarian | — | — |
| Zaseda | Živojin Pavlović | drama film | Yugoslavia |
 Zatoichi's Vengeance | Tokuzō Tanaka | adventure film | Japan |
 Zaunkämpfe | — | documentary film | Germany |
| Zbrodniarz i panna | Janusz Nasfeter | mystery film, drama film, action film, thriller film | Poland |
| Zdravstvuyte, my vasha krysha | Vitaliy Mukhametzyanov | crime film | Russia |
| Ze Film | Guy Jacques | parody film | France |
| Zeisters | John Lionel Golden | comedy film | United States |
| Zeit zu leben | Horst Seemann | — | East Germany |
| Zelená vlna | Václav Vorlíček | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | comedy film, mockumentary | United States |
| Zelyonyy dol | — | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Zelyonyy furgon | Aleksandr Pavlovsky | detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
 Zenigata Heiji: Human-skin Spider | — | — | — |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | drama film | Norway |
 Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | drama film, action film, thriller film, war film | United States |
| Zero Fucks Given | Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre | comedy film, comedy drama | France, Belgium |
| Zero Hour! | Hall Bartlett | disaster film | United States |
| Zesshō | Eisuke Takizawa | — | — |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | drama film, historical film, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha | Vladimir Motyl | romantic comedy film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Zhivite v radosti | Leonid Sergeevich Millionshchikov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Zhmenyaky | Alfred Shestopalov | drama film | Soviet Union |
 Ziegfeld Girl | Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Zindagi | Pramathesh Barua | — | — |
| Zipi y Zape y la isla del capitán | Óskar Santos | comedy film | Spain |
| Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah | Catherine Hébert | documentary film | Canada |
| Zmiana warty | Halina Bielińska, Włodzimierz Haupe | — | Poland |
 Zodiac | David Fincher | police procedural film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, docudrama | United States |
| Zog | Daniel Snaddon, Max Lang | animated film, children's film | United Kingdom |
| Zokkomon | Satyajit Bhatkal | superhero film | India |
| Zola | Janicza Bravo | drama film | United States |
| Zombie Island Massacre | John Carter | horror film, zombie film | United States |
| Zombie Tidal Wave | Anthony C. Ferrante | — | United States |
 Zombieland | Ruben Fleischer | post-apocalyptic film, zombie comedy, horror film, comedy horror, zombie film | United States |
| Zona Zamfirova | Zdravko Šotra | drama film, comedy drama | Serbia |
| Zone of Lyube | Dmitry Zolotukhin | drama film, musical film | Russia |
| Zoo | Cristina Comencini | comedy film | Italy |
| Zookeeper | Frank Coraci | romantic comedy film, children's film | United States |
| Zoolander | Ben Stiller | comedy film | Germany, United States |
| Zoolander 2 | Ben Stiller | comedy film | United States |
 Zootopia | Byron Howard, Jared Bush, Rich Moore | family film, comedy film, detective film, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy cop film | United States |
 Zorba the Greek | Michael Cacoyannis | drama film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States, Greece |
| Zoya | — | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film | Russia |
| Zozulya with Diploma | Igor Samborsky, Vadym Illenko | comedy film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Zum Beispiel Josef | Erwin Stranka | — | East Germany |
| Zvanyy uzhin | Fridrikh Ermler | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Zvezda Ulugbeka | Latif Fayziyev | historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Zvyozdnaya komandirovka | Borys Ivchenko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Zycie za zycie. Maksymilian Kolbe | Krzysztof Zanussi, Marek Brodzki | biographical film | Germany, Poland |
| Zátopek | David Ondříček | drama film, sport film, biographical film | Czech Republic |
| Zítra to roztočíme, drahoušku…! | Petr Schulhoff | satire, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |