| São Gabriel da Virgem Dolorosa | — | Brazil |
| Ellos eatnu – Let the River Flow | Ole Giæver | Norway, Sweden |
| Nightingale | Leeni Linna | Estonia |
| Archipelago | — | Russia |
| Petra de San José | Pablo Moreno | Spain |
| Hero | Yoon Je-kyoon | South Korea |
| Arracht | Tomás Ó Súilleabháin | Ireland |
| Piłsudski | Michał Rosa | Poland |
| Frontier | Dmitry Tyurin | Russia |
| Stonewall | Roland Emmerich | United States |
| Living Images | Hardi Volmer | Estonia |
| Special 26 | Neeraj Pandey | India |
| September Eleven 1683 | Renzo Martinelli | Poland, Italy |
| The Princess of Montpensier | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Angel's Aisle | Nikolay Dreyden | Russia |
| Bathory | Juraj Jakubisko | United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary |
| Khí phách anh hùng | Hồ Ngọc Xum | Vietnam |
| The Rider Named Death | Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia |
| Mamay | Oles Sanin | Ukraine |
| Prayer for Hetman Mazepa | Yuri Ilyenko | Ukraine |
| The Profession of Arms | Ermanno Olmi | France, Italy |
| Thirteen Days | Roger Donaldson | United States |
| The Sexual Challenges of Hercules | Joe D'Amato | Italy |
| The Breakthrough March To Dabie Mountain | Wei Lian | People's Republic of China |
| The Life Story of David Lloyd George | Maurice Elvey | United Kingdom |
| Caravan | Nazim Mammadov | Azerbaijan |
| Gisele's Mania | Alexei Uchitel | Russia |
| The Road to Sich | Serhiy Omelchuk | Ukraine |
| The Airship | Pablo Dotta | Uruguay |
| Lord, Forgive Us, Sinners | Artur Voytetsky | Ukraine |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | Evgeniy Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign | Li Jun, Wei Lian, Zhai Junjie, Yang Guangyuan | People's Republic of China |
| Zhou Enlai | Ding Yinnan | People's Republic of China |
| I ragazzi di via Panisperna | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
| The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin | Yuri Kara | Soviet Union |
| The Glory and Misery of Human Life | Matti Kassila | Finland |
| First Encounter - Last Encounter | Vitali Melnikov | Soviet Union |
| Simhasanam | Krishna Ghattamaneni | India |
| One Second for a Feat | Gil-sen Om, Eldor Urazbayev | Soviet Union, North Korea |
| Anna Pavlova | Emil Loteanu | France, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, East Germany, Cuba |
| Semyon Dezhnev | Nikolay Gusarov | Soviet Union |
| The Legend of Princess Olga | Yuri Ilyenko | Soviet Union |
| December 20 | Grigori Nikulin | Soviet Union |
| Man of Iron | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Nanchang Uprising | Tang Xiaodan | People's Republic of China |
| W biały dzień | Edward Żebrowski | Poland |
| Yaroslav Mudry | Hryhorii Kokhan | Soviet Union |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | Soviet Union |