| An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | drama film, biographical film |
| A Dangerous Life | Robert Markowitz | — |
| The Riddle of the Stinson | Chris Noonan | — |
| Running from the Guns | John Dixon | action film |
| Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | black comedy film, buddy film, comedy drama |
| Death of a Soldier | Philippe Mora | drama film, crime film |
| Restless Natives | Michael Hoffman | comedy film |
| Robbery Under Arms | Ken Hannam, Donald Crombie | bushranging film, Western film |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | drama film |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | Philippe Mora | superhero film, musical film |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | action film, horror film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film |
| We of the Never Never | Igor Auzins | — |
| Arabian Adventure | Kevin Connor | fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| Blue Fin | Carl Schultz | independent film |
| The Comeback | Pete Walker | mystery film, horror film |
| Blue Fire Lady | Ross Dimsey | drama film, family film |
| Fantasm Comes Again | Colin Eggleston | pornographic film |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — |
| Alvin Rides Again | David Bilcock, Robin Copping | comedy film |
| The House in Nightmare Park | Peter Sykes | comedy horror |
| Fear in the Night | Jimmy Sangster | horror film, psychological horror fiction |
| Squeeze a Flower | Marc Daniels | comedy film |
| Peter Grimes | Christopher Muir | — |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Christopher Muir | — |
| A Piece of Ribbon | — | — |
| Uncle Martino | — | — |
| Dinner with the Family | — | — |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | drama film, comedy film |
| The Stowaway | Ralph Habib, Lee Robinson | drama film |
| The Kurnell Story | Ken G. Hall | documentary film |
| The Rats of Tobruk | Charles Chauvel | drama film |
| Fourth Liberty Loans: I Had A Son | Ken G. Hall | — |
| The Broken Melody | Ken G. Hall | drama film |