| Sweet Dreams | Karel Reisz | United States |
| The Guilt of Lieutenant Nekrasov | Ravil Batyrov | Soviet Union |
| The Last Dragon | Michael Schultz | United States |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Aleksandr Orlov | Soviet Union |
| The Time to Live and the Time to Die | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Taiwan |
| The Will | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union |
| Turk 182 | Bob Clark | United States |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Bud Yorkin | United States |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Adela | Mircea Veroiu | Romania |
| Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | United States |
| Birdy | Alan Parker | United States |
| Eight Days of Hope | Aleksandr Muratov | Soviet Union |
| El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | France, Tunisia |
| Elder Sister's Diary | Hiroyuki Nasu | Japan |
| Give My Regards to Broad Street | Peter Webb | United Kingdom |
| Il lungo inverno | Ivo Barnabò Micheli | Italy, West Germany |
| Life | Wu Tianming | People's Republic of China |
| Malambo | Milan Dor | Austria |
| Mario | Jean Beaudin | Canada |
| Missing in Action | Joseph Zito | United States |
| My Little Wife | Raimundas Banionis | Soviet Union, Lithuania |
| No Family | Vladimir Bortko | Soviet Union |
| Rupture | Vladimir Vengerov | Soviet Union |
| The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray | India |
| The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | United Kingdom |
| Until September | Richard Marquand | France, United States |
| Abhilasha | A. Kodandarami Reddy | India |
| Akmenainais cels | Rolands Kalniņš | Soviet Union |
| Anna Pavlova | Emil Loteanu | France, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, East Germany, Cuba |
| Heart Like a Wheel | Jonathan Kaplan | United States |
| Here is your front | Eduard Gavrilov | Soviet Union |
| I, Son of Working People... | Vladimir Strelkov | Soviet Union |
| Il disertore | Giuliana Berlinguer | Italy |
| Independence Day | Robert Mandel | United States |
| Justice Chaudhry | K. Raghavendra Rao | India |
| Limpan | Staffan Roos | Sweden |
| Max Dugan Returns | Herbert Ross | United States |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | Japan |
| The Stand-By Moves In | Ernest Yasan | Soviet Union |
| The Story Shouldn't Had Happend | Zhang Hui | People's Republic of China |
| The Tin Flute | Claude Fournier | Canada |
| Troe na shosse | Anatoly Bobrovsky | Soviet Union |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | United States |
| Walking, Walking | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| Zhai bei gao bei hou | Chang Yan | People's Republic of China |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | Gabon, France, Germany |
| At Another People's Holiday | Vladimir Laptev | Soviet Union |