| Pereprava | Viktor Turov, Marek Brodzki | drama film, war film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| The Aggression | Theodor Kotulla | drama film | Germany |
| Retouche | Dieter Funk | drama film | Germany |
| King Kongs Faust | Heiner Stadler | road movie, comedy drama | Germany |
| Teenage Sex Report | Ernst Hofbauer | sexploitation film, mockumentary, erotic film, enlightenment film | Germany |
| The Turning Point | Frank Beyer | drama film, war film | East Germany |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | drama film, medieval film, musical film | France, Germany |
| The Drinking Man's War | Per Oscarsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| The Bailiff of Greifensee | Wilfried Bolliger | drama film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | drama film | France, Germany |
| Jacob the Liar | Frank Beyer | drama film, comedy film | East Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| Zum Beispiel Josef | Erwin Stranka | — | East Germany |
| Sokolovo | Otakar Vávra | drama film, historical film, war film | Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia |
| Towns and Years | Aleksandr Zarkhi | period drama film | Soviet Union |
| My Daughter, Your Daughter | Werner Jacobs | comedy film, musical film | Germany |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Franklin J. Schaffner | drama film, historical film, biographical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Verspielte Heimat | Claus Dobberke | — | East Germany |
| Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | action film, war film, heist film | United States, Yugoslavia |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film, horror film, comedy drama | Germany |
| Jonathan | Hans W. Geißendörfer | horror film, vampire film | Germany |
| Heintje: A Heart Goes on a Journey | Werner Jacobs | musical film | Germany |
| The Gentlemen | Alfred Weidenmann, Rolf Thiele, Franz Seitz Jr. | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Adventures of Werner Holt | Joachim Kunert | drama film, war film | East Germany |
| The Secret of Dr. Mabuse | Hugo Fregonese | science fiction film, crime film | France, Germany, Italy |
| The Longest Day | Gerd Oswald, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki | drama film, historical film, action film, war film | United States |
| On the Sunny Side | Ralf Kirsten | musical film | East Germany |
| The Hour in Which You're Happy | Rudolf Jugert | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Peace to Him Who Enters | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Five Days, Five Nights | Heinz Thiel, Lev Arnshtam | historical film, war film | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany |
| The Terrible People | Harald Reinl | mystery film, horror film | Germany |
| Sweetheart of the Gods | Gottfried Reinhardt | drama film, biographical film, musical film | Germany |
| The Virgin Spring | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Sweden |
| Man in the River | Eugen York | drama film, crime film | Germany |
| The Heart of St. Pauli | Eugen York | musical film | Germany |
| Friederike von Barring | Rolf Thiele | drama film | Germany |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film | Germany |
| Hotel Adlon | Josef von Báky | drama film | Germany |
| Love is Forever | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Rose-Girl Resli | Harald Reinl | drama film | Germany |
| Mikosch Comes In | Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla | comedy film | Germany |
| Third from the Right | Géza von Cziffra | musical film | Germany |
| Hello, Fraulein! | Rudolf Jugert | musical film | Germany |
| Encounter at the Elbe | Grigori Aleksandrov | war film, political drama | Soviet Union |
| The Green Salon | Boleslaw Barlog | drama film | Germany |
| Bravo Acrobat! | Wolfgang Staudte | comedy film | Germany, Nazi Germany |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | biographical film | Germany |