| Fearless Hyena Part II | Lo Wei | martial arts film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Five Fingers of One Hand | Begziyn Baljinnyam, Nyamgavaa Ichinkhorloo | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Flesh Girls | Heinz Arland | pornographic film | Sweden |
| Heart Like a Wheel | Jonathan Kaplan | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Here is your front | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Himmatwala | K. Raghavendra Rao | action comedy film | India |
| I, Son of Working People... | Vladimir Strelkov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| If to Believe Lopotukhin... | Mikhail Kozakov | science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Il disertore | Giuliana Berlinguer | drama film, war film | Italy |
| Independence Day | Robert Mandel | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro | Kundan Shah | black comedy film | India |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film | United States |
| Justice Chaudhry | K. Raghavendra Rao | drama film | India |
| Le Grand Carnaval | Alexandre Arcady | comedy drama | France |
| Limpan | Staffan Roos | drama film | Sweden |
| Lovis, rybka! | — | puppet film | Soviet Union |
| Mawaali | Kovelamudi Bapayya | — | India |
| Max Dugan Returns | Herbert Ross | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Mickey's Christmas Carol | Burny Mattinson | Christmas film, comedy drama | United States |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Mystery of the Ship Clock | Rüfat Şabanov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Papy fait de la résistance | Jean-Marie Poiré | comedy film | France |
| Semyon Dezhnev | Nikolay Gusarov | historical film, adventure film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Strada Pia | Georg Brintrup | documentary film | Germany, Italy |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Sweet Young Foxes | Bob Chinn | comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | drama film | Japan |
| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss | Paul Cowan | docudrama, documentary film | Canada |
| The Legend of Princess Olga | Yuri Ilyenko | historical film | Soviet Union |
| The Little Bunch | Michel Deville | comedy film | France |
| The Man with Two Brains | Carl Reiner | comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| The Monkey Fishing | — | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Night the Bridge Fell Down | Georg Fenady | action film, disaster film | United States |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | Philippe Mora | superhero film, musical film | Australia |
| The Scout | Jamyanguyn Buntar, Konrad Petzold | Western film | East Germany |
| The Stand-By Moves In | Ernest Yasan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Story Shouldn't Had Happend | Zhang Hui | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Tin Flute | Claude Fournier | drama film | Canada |
| Trading Places | John Landis | comedy film, Christmas film | United States |
| Troe na shosse | Anatoly Bobrovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Under Fire | Roger Spottiswoode | political thriller film, drama film, war film, tragedy | United States |
| Vacanze di Natale | Carlo Vanzina | comedy film, Christmas film | Italy |
| Walking, Walking | Ermanno Olmi | drama film | Italy |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film | United States, Guatemala |
| Zhai bei gao bei hou | Chang Yan | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | drama film, crime film | Gabon, France, Germany |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film | France |
| Along Unknown Paths | Mikhail Yuzovsky | fantasy film, children's film | Soviet Union |