| Sandakan No. 8 | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| Shazdeh Ehtejab | Bahman Farmanara | Iran |
| The Chivalrous | Fereydoun Jourak | Iran |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | United States |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | United States |
| Whichever Way the Ball Bounces | Rajko Grlić | Yugoslavia |
| Zhrebiy | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| At the Last Moment | Nasser Mohammadi | Iran |
| Die Elixiere des Teufels | Ralf Kirsten | East Germany, Germany |
| England Made Me (film) | Peter Duffell | United Kingdom |
| Hell Up in Harlem | Larry Cohen | United States |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | France, United States, Italy |
| Mr. Jahel | Reza Mirlohi | Iran |
| My Dear Brother | Ertem Eğilmez | Turkey |
| Ogonki | Boris Rytsarev | Soviet Union |
| Old Walls | Viktor Tregubovich | Soviet Union |
| Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
| Pesar-khande | Jamshid Sheybani | Iran |
| Sweet Scent Of Eros | Toshiya Fujita | Japan |
| Tangsir | Amir Naderi | Iran |
| The All-American Boy | Charles K. Eastman | United States |
| The Hateful Wolf | Maziar Partow | Iran |
| The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Mexico |
| The Wanderers | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| The Way We Were | Sydney Pollack | United States |
| Wine | Bagrat Hovhannisyan | Soviet Union |
| A Separate Peace | Larry Peerce | United Kingdom |
| Bangaarada Manushya | Siddalingaiah | India |
| Images | Robert Altman | United Kingdom, United States |
| La sonrisa de mamá | Enrique Carreras | Argentina |
| Laj o lajbazi | Mehdi Reisfirooz | Iran |
| Lăutarii | Emil Loteanu | Soviet Union |
| Nyurka's life | Anatoly Bobrovsky | Soviet Union |
| One Is a Lonely Number | Mel Stuart | United States |
| Poslijepodne jednog fazana | — | Yugoslavia |
| The Deer Hunt | Fadil Hadžić | Yugoslavia |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Newman | United States |
| The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty | Wim Wenders | Germany, Austria |
| The Guest | Liliana Cavani | Italy |
| The Man | Joseph Sargent | United States |
| The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| The Possession of Joel Delaney | Waris Hussein | United States |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Vadim Gauzner | Soviet Union |
| The Rebels | Denis Héroux | Canada |
| The Saplings | Revas Chkheidze | Georgian SSR |
| The Sin of Beauty | Giannis Dalianidis | Greece |
| Vichitra Bandham | Adurthi Subba Rao | India |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |