| Adamak | Khosrow Haritash | Iran |
| Ariana | George Ovadiah | Israel |
| Bumbarash | Mykola Rasheiev, Abram Naroditsky | Soviet Union |
| Dear Mullah Mammad | Jamshid Sheybani | Iran |
| Drama from ancient Life | Ilya Averbakh | Soviet Union |
| Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | United States |
| Family Life | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| Fleeing the Trap | Jalal Moghadam | Iran |
| Furious Men | Saber Rahbar | Iran |
| Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment | Konrad Wolf | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union, East Germany, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra | Horst E. Brandt | East Germany, Germany |
| Knucklebones | Zackaria Hashemi | Iran |
| Le Cochon aux patates douces | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Nikah Halala | Nosrat Karimi | Iran |
| Notorious | Shapoor Gharib | Iran |
| Shaft | Gordon Parks | United States |
| Single Hero | Aman Manteghi | Iran |
| The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | United States |
| The Raging Moon | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| The Sandpit Generals | Hall Bartlett | United States |
| The Todd Killings | Barry Shear | United States |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Larry Buchanan, Maury Dexter | United States |
| A Simple Story | Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Tunisia |
| A Swedish Love Story | Roy Andersson | Sweden |
| Adam at Six A.M. | Robert Scheerer | United States |
| Akka Chellelu | A. Sanjeevi | India |
| Blood Mania | Robert Vincent O'Neil | United States |
| Chermen | Nikoloz Sanishvili | Georgian SSR |
| Città violenta | Sergio Sollima | France, Italy |
| Cromwell | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom, United States |
| Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Japan |
| Güzel Şoför | Mehmet Bozkuş, Mahmoud Koushan | Turkey, Iran |
| Homer | John Trent | United States |
| Khilona | Chander Vohra | India |
| Late Child | Konstantin Yershov | Soviet Union |
| MASH | Robert Altman | United States |
| Mr. Naive | Dariush Mehrjui | Iran |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell | United Kingdom |
| Reza Motorcyclist | Masoud Kimiai | Iran |
| Scrooge | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom |
| Sekke-ye shans | Iraj Ghaderi | Iran |
| Sex Jack | Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| The City Jungle | Stavros Tsiolis | Greece |
| The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | United States |
| The Hawaiians | Tom Gries | United States |
| The Liberation of L.B. Jones | William Wyler | United States |
| The McKenzie Break | Lamont Johnson | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| The Polynin Case | Aleksey Sakharov | Soviet Union |