| Love Is the Ruin of Us All | Jože Gale | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| America and Lewis Hine | Nina Rosenblum | United States |
| The Bounty | Roger Donaldson | United Kingdom, United States |
| Tan Sitong | Chen Jialin | People's Republic of China |
| The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter | Lau Kar-leung | Hong Kong |
| Duel to the Death | Ching Siu-tung | Hong Kong |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Front in the Rear of the Enemy | Igor Gostev | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Squadron of Flying Hussars | Nikita Khubov, Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| The Youth of Peter the Great | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Blood of the Railroad Workers | Erik Solbakken | Norway |
| Perceval le Gallois | Éric Rohmer | France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| The Iron-Fisted Monk | Sammo Hung | Hong Kong |
| How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor | Alexander Mitta | Soviet Union |
| Hand of Death | John Woo | Hong Kong |
| New Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | Hong Kong |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish People's Republic |
| Earthly Love | Yevgeny Matveyev | Soviet Union |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | United Kingdom |
| Sokolovo | Otakar Vávra | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
| El principio | Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Mexico |
| Privalov's Millions | Yaropolk Lapshin | Soviet Union |
| Copernicus | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | East Germany, Poland |
| Hot Snow | Gabriel Egiazarov | Soviet Union |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Franklin J. Schaffner | United Kingdom, United States |
| Queen Dorothea’s Bow | Jan Schmidt | Czechoslovakia |
| Scorched Earth | Knut Andersen | Norway |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Germany, Italy |
| The Sixth of July | Yuli Karasik | Soviet Union |
| Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | United Kingdom |
| Sofiya Perovskaya | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| Tatyana's Day | Isidore Annenski | Soviet Union |
| The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | Soviet Union, Hungary |
| Osetinskaya legenda | Azanbek Dzhanaev | Soviet Union |
| A Mother's Heart | Mark Donskoy | Soviet Union |
| The Longest Day | Gerd Oswald, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki | United States |
| Five Days, Five Nights | Heinz Thiel, Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany |
| Baltic Skies | Vladimir Vengerov | Soviet Union |
| The Eagle | Leonard Buczkowski | Poland |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Arthur Lubin | United States |
| Joseph of Ryysyranta | Roland af Hällström | Finland |
| Heroes of Shipka | Sergei Vasilyev | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Italy |
| The Anna Cross | Isidore Annenski | Soviet Union |
| Three Sisters of the Moors | John Larkin | United States |
| Shirin and Farhad | Abdolhossein Sepanta | Iran |