| Merry Christmas... Happy New Year | Luigi Comencini | Christmas film, comedy drama |
| Splendor | Ettore Scola | drama film |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | drama film |
| A Strange Place to Meet | François Dupeyron | romance film, drama film |
| A Tale of the Wind | Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan-Ivens | documentary film |
| La Maison assassinée | Georges Lautner | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Life Is a Long Quiet River | Étienne Chatiliez | comedy film |
| A Man in Love | Diane Kurys | drama film |
| Control | Giuliano Montaldo | drama film |
| Jeux d'artifices | Virginie Thévenet | comedy film |
| Captive | Paul Mayersberg | thriller film |
| The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, medieval film, crime film |
| The Photograph | Nikos Papatakis | drama film |
| Adieu Bonaparte | Youssef Chahine | drama film, war film |
| Commando Mengele | Jesús Franco, Andrea Bianchi | action film, adventure film |
| El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, thriller film |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | romance film, drama film |
| Anna Pavlova | Emil Loteanu | drama film, historical film, drama fiction, biographical film, musical film |
| Le Grand Carnaval | Alexandre Arcady | comedy drama |
| Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | comedy film |
| The Little Bunch | Michel Deville | comedy film |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | documentary film |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film |
| Le Maître d'école | Claude Berri | comedy film |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | mystery film, drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, crime film |
| A Summer in the Country | Roberto Girometti | comedy film, sex film |
| Série noire | Alain Corneau | drama film, neo-noir, crime film |
| Tess | Roman Polanski | drama film |
| Blood Relatives | Claude Chabrol | drama film, film noir |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Ted Kotcheff | comedy film |
| Fräulein Devil | Patrice Rhomm | exploitation film |
| Le Portique des cieux | Roger Dallier | — |
| Calmos | Bertrand Blier | comedy film |
| Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel, Denis Héroux | LGBTQ-related film, musical film |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | drama film, crime film |
| Storm Rider | Giancarlo Santi | Spaghetti Western |
| Treasure Island | Andrea Bianchi, Antonio Margheriti, John Hough | pirate film, treasure hunt film, adventure film |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Gérard Oury | comedy film, historical film |
| Le Cochon aux patates douces | Barbet Schroeder | drama film, documentary film |
| The Light at the Edge of the World | Kevin Billington | action film, pirate film, adventure film |
| To Catch a Spy | Dick Clement | spy film |
| A Quiet Place to Kill | Umberto Lenzi | thriller film |
| Città violenta | Sergio Sollima | drama film, neo-noir |
| L'homme orchestre | Serge Korber | comedy film |
| The Wild Child | François Truffaut | drama film |
| Jeff | Jean Vautrin | drama film, thriller film, crime film |