| Devata | K. Raghavendra Rao | India |
| Dykhanie grozy | Viktor Turov | Soviet Union |
| Flights in Dreams and Reality | Roman Balayan | Soviet Union |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | Italy |
| Ivan | Vitali Dudin | Soviet Union |
| Larose, Pierrot and Luce | Claude Gagnon | Canada, Japan |
| Love and Money | James Toback | United States |
| Personal Best | Robert Towne | United States |
| Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | People's Republic of China |
| Road Inspector | Eldor Urazbayev | Soviet Union |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | Soviet Union |
| Taran | Gunārs Cilinskis | Soviet Union |
| The Herdsman | Xie Jin | People's Republic of China |
| The Song of the Old Days | Albert Mkrtchyan | Soviet Union |
| Alexander The Small | Vladimir Fokin | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| And I'm with you again... | Boris Galanter | Soviet Union |
| Conversa Acabada | João Botelho | Portugal |
| Dreszcze | Wojciech Marczewski | Poland |
| Facts of the Past Day | Vladimir Basov | Soviet Union |
| Help Me Dream | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| Man of Iron | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | United States |
| Sally and Freedom | Gunnel Lindblom | Sweden |
| Story of an Unknown Man | Vytautas Žalakevičius | Soviet Union |
| Taps | Harold Becker | United States |
| The Bushido Blade | Tsugunobu Kotani | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Drive to Win | Zhang Nuanxin | People's Republic of China |
| The Professional | Georges Lautner | France |
| The Smacking Sea | Arvo Kruusement | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| The True Story of Ah Q | Cen Fan | People's Republic of China |
| The Woman Inside | Joseph Van Winkle | United States |
| Varavu Nalla Uravu | Visu | India |
| Vysokyy pereval | Volodymyr Denysenko | Soviet Union |
| We Looked in the Death's Face | Naum Birman | Soviet Union |
| Yaroslav Mudry | Hryhorii Kokhan | Soviet Union |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | Soviet Union |
| Zapach psiej siersci | Jan Batory | Poland |
| Aakrosh | Govind Nihalani | India |
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | United Kingdom |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | Sweden |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | Germany, Sweden |
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | United States |
| Housata | Karel Smyczek | Czechoslovakia |
| Inside Moves | Richard Donner | United States |
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | James Ivory | United Kingdom, United States |
| Santa Esperansa | Sebastián Alarcón | Soviet Union, Chile |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | Soviet Union |
| A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers | Yuri Ilyenko | Soviet Union |