| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | Norway |
| Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun | Jesús Franco | Germany, Switzerland |
| Kaerazaru hibi | Toshiya Fujita | Japan |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | United States |
| Confusion of Feelings | Pavel Arsyonov | Soviet Union |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States |
| A Hunting Accident | Emil Loteanu | Soviet Union, West Germany |
| Wrong Connection | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | Canada |
| Men Can't Be Raped | Jörn Donner | Finland, Sweden |
| Formynderne | Nicole Macé | Norway |
| Perceval le Gallois | Éric Rohmer | France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| March or Die | Dick Richards | United Kingdom |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Germany, United States, Sweden |
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Destiny | Yevgeny Matveyev | Soviet Union |
| Office Romance | Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union |
| Mina, Wind of Freedom | Antonio Eceiza | Mexico |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | United States |
| The Iron-Fisted Monk | Sammo Hung | Hong Kong |
| The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | United Kingdom, United States |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | United States |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | Soviet Union |
| Sweet Woman | Vladimir Fetin | Soviet Union |
| Screen Tests | Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Domaradzki | Poland |
| The Key That Should Not Be Handed On | Dinara Asanova | Soviet Union |
| The Question | Laurent Heynemann | France |
| Aty-baty, shli soldaty... | Leonid Bykov | Soviet Union |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | Norway, Poland |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | United States |
| The Passover Plot | Michael Campus | United States, Israel |
| The Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia |
| Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél | György Szomjas | Hungary |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | United States |
| Hand of Death | John Woo | Hong Kong |
| New Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | Hong Kong |
| Midway | Jack Smight | United States |
| The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | France, Germany |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| Árvácska | László Ranódy | Hungary |
| Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare | Junya Satō | Japan |