| The Jester and the Queen | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
| Under the Chinese Restaurant | Bruno Bozzetto | Italy |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | United Kingdom, United States |
| 7 chili in 7 giorni | Luca Verdone | Italy |
| Big Trouble | John Cassavetes | United States |
| Detective School Dropouts | Filippo Ottoni | United States, Italy |
| How to Become Happy | Yuri Chulyukin | Soviet Union |
| My Dearly Beloved Detective | Aleksei Simonov | Soviet Union |
| Beer | Patrick Kelly | United States |
| Crimewave | Sam Raimi | United States |
| Fracchia contro Dracula | Neri Parenti | Italy |
| I Was a Teenage TV Terrorist | Stanford Singer | United States |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | United States |
| Once Bitten | Howard Storm | United States |
| Restless Natives | Michael Hoffman | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Screamplay | Rufus Butler Seder | United States |
| Spies Like Us | John Landis | United States |
| Crónica dos Bons Malandros | Fernando Lopes | Portugal |
| L'allenatore nel pallone | Sergio Martino | Italy |
| Olga i Konstantin | Yevgeny Mezentsev | Soviet Union |
| Tank | Marvin J. Chomsky | United States |
| The First Turn-On! | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | United States |
| The Snowdrop Festival | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| The Three of Us | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Trust That Has Burst | Aleksandr Pavlovsky | Soviet Union |
| Believe It or Not | Sergey Ovcharov | Soviet Union |
| Curse of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | United Kingdom, United States |
| Doctor Detroit | Michael Pressman | United States |
| Fanny Hill | Gerry O'Hara | United Kingdom |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | United States |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | Soviet Union |
| Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | France |
| Sweet Young Foxes | Bob Chinn | United States |
| The Little Bunch | Michel Deville | France |
| The Man with Two Brains | Carl Reiner | United States |
| Trading Places | John Landis | United States |
| Vacanze di Natale | Carlo Vanzina | Italy |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France |
| Better Late Than Never | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| Evləri köndələn yar | Tariyel Vəliyev, Ramiz Hasanoglu | Azerbaijan |
| I Don't Want to Be an Adult | Yuri Chulyukin | Soviet Union |
| Married Bachelor | Vladimir Rogovoy | Soviet Union |
| Once Upon a Dog | Eduard Nazarov | Soviet Union |
| Piratensender Powerplay | Sigi Rothemund | Germany |
| Servantes iz Malog Mista | Daniel Marušić | Yugoslavia |
| Simply Awful! | Aleksandr Polynnikov | Soviet Union |
| Things Are Tough All Over | Thomas K. Avildsen | United States |
| Vot takiye chudesa | Yefim Galperin | Soviet Union |