| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Australia |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| Squirm | Jeff Lieberman | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Swashbuckler | James Goldstone | pirate film, children's film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood | Western film, vigilante film | United States |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| The Bad News Bears | Michael Ritchie | coming-of-age film, comedy film | United States |
| The Blue Bird | George Cukor | family film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union, United States |
| The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Melvin Frank | Western film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Sky Riders | Douglas Hickox | action film | United States |
| Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Paul Mazursky | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Hustle | Robert Aldrich | mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| The Black Bird | David Giler | parody film | United States |
| Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | drama film, adventure film, war film | United States, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Robert Stevenson | comedy film, neo-noir | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | mystery film | United States |
| Posse | Kirk Douglas | Western film, action film | United States |
| Las Vegas Lady | Noel Nosseck | crime film | United States |
| Bite the Bullet | Richard Brooks | Western film | United States |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | drama film, historical film, war film | United Kingdom |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | David Greene | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom |
| The Bears and I | Bernard McEveety | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Chang Cheh, Roy Ward Baker | martial arts film, fantasy film, horror film, vampire film, film based on a novel | British Hong Kong, United Kingdom |
| The Tamarind Seed | Evelyn Anthony, Blake Edwards | melodrama, spy film | United States |
| Teenage Bride | — | drama film, sex film | United States |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | mystery film, drama film, film noir, crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film | United States |
| Mr. Majestyk | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, prison film | United States |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner | spy film | United States |
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | John Hough | drama film, action film, heist film | United States |
| The Great Gatsby | Jack Clayton | romance film, drama film | United States, Australia |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | action film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | drama film, action film, sexploitation film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, women in prison film | British Hong Kong |
| The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | drama film, comedy film, road movie, buddy film | United States |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | mystery film, drama film, horror film, dystopian film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | gangster film, crime film | United States |
| One Little Indian | Bernard McEveety | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Showdown | George Seaton | Western film | United States |
| Dillinger | John Milius | heist film, crime film | United States |
| Scorpio | Michael Winner | drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film | United States |
| The Offence | Sidney Lumet | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Snowball Express | Norman Tokar | comedy film | United States |
| The Heartbreak Kid | Elaine May | romantic comedy | United States |
| Lady Sings the Blues | Sidney J. Furie | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| The Magnificent Seven Ride! | George McCowan | Western film | United States |
| Napoleon and Samantha | Bernard McEveety | drama film | United States |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Robert Butler | comedy film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |