| Flashdance | Adrian Lyne | United States |
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | United States |
| La Viuda Negra | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
| Made in Britain | Alan John Clarke | United Kingdom |
| Ladies' Tango | Sulambek Mamilov | Soviet Union |
| Vassa | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
| Piratene | Morten Kolstad | Norway |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States |
| Woman with Pierced Nipples | Shōgorō Nishimura | Japan |
| Victory March | Marco Bellocchio | France, Germany, Italy |
| Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle | Dmitry Barshchevsky | Soviet Union |
| Five Days One Summer | Fred Zinnemann | United States |
| The Turning Point | Frank Beyer | East Germany |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | Hong Kong |
| Drum | Steve Carver | United States |
| Masquerade | Boštjan Hladnik | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Yuvaraju | Dasari Narayana Rao | India |
| Best Friends | Norman Jewison | United States |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Napasta | Alexa Visarion | Romania |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | United States |
| Red Bells | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union, Italy, Mexico |
| Krypskyttere | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | Norway |
| Private Life | Yuli Raizman | Soviet Union |
| The Train Has Stopped | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | United States |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch | United States |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | France, Germany |
| Bu gu cui chun | Jia Shihong | People's Republic of China |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | John Badham | United States |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Front in the Rear of the Enemy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| The Jericho Mile | — | United States |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | United States |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | United States |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | Poland |
| The Little Fox | Attila Dargay | Hungary |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Enrai | Kichitarō Negishi | Japan |
| Gypsy Happiness | Sergei Nikonenko | Soviet Union |
| Escape to Victory | John Huston | Hungary, United States |
| Pixote | Héctor Babenco | Brazil |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | Norway |