| Comfort and Joy | Bill Forsyth | comedy film, Christmas film | United Kingdom |
| Mike's Murder | James Bridges | mystery film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United States |
| Zydeco | — | music-themed film, documentary film | — |
| Bullshot | Dick Clement | parody film | United Kingdom |
| Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | comedy film | United States |
| Love Is Forever | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| The World of ‘The Dark Crystal’ | Jim Henson | documentary film | United States |
| Drum | Steve Carver | drama film, action film, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | drama film | United States |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Imperial Japanese Empire | Toshio Masuda | war film | Japan |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| The Jericho Mile | — | drama film | United States |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | documentary film | United States |
| Full Circle | Richard Loncraine | horror film, ghost film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Devil and Max Devlin | Steven Hilliard Stern | fantasy film | United States |
| Mad Dog Morgan | Philippe Mora | bushranging film, drama film, Western film, action film | Australia |
| Bilibid Boys | Ishmael Bernal | drama film, action film | Philippines |
| The Drinking Man's War | Per Oscarsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston | animal horror film, horror film | Australia |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | drama film, hood film | United Kingdom |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Robert Clouse | drama film, action film, crime film | United States, Hong Kong |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | documentary film | Canada |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | coming-of-age film, drama film | Canada |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | comedy film, retrofuturism | United States |
| The Sky Trap | Jerome Courtland | adventure film | United States |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| Love and Bullets | John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, action film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Superman | Richard Donner | superhero film, action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | drama film | United States |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | parody film | United States |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| Barney | David Waddington | — | Australia |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | mystery film, comedy thriller, action comedy film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Mister Scarface | Fernando Di Leo | poliziotteschi | Germany, Italy |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| The Passover Plot | Michael Campus | drama film | United States, Israel |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film | United States |