| The Professional | Georges Lautner | mystery film, drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film, crime film | France |
| The Smacking Sea | Arvo Kruusement | drama film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| The True Story of Ah Q | Cen Fan | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Vacancy | Margarita Mikaelyan | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The Woman Inside | Joseph Van Winkle | drama film | United States |
| Varavu Nalla Uravu | Visu | drama film | India |
| Vysokyy pereval | Volodymyr Denysenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| W biały dzień | Edward Żebrowski | historical film | Poland |
| We Looked in the Death's Face | Naum Birman | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Wielka majówka | Krzysztof Rogulski | comedy film | Poland |
| Woman Who Exposes Herself | Masaru Konuma | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Yaroslav Mudry | Hryhorii Kokhan | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Zapach psiej siersci | Jan Batory | drama film | Poland |
| A Deadly Secret | Mou Tun-fei | kung fu film | Hong Kong |
| A Summer in the Country | Roberto Girometti | comedy film, sex film | France, Italy |
| Aakrosh | Govind Nihalani | drama film | India |
| Amnesty | Valeri Ponomarev | comedy film | Soviet Union, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Tommy Chong | comedy film | United States |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | political thriller film, fiction film, thriller film | Germany, United States |
| Fear (1980 film) | Rostyslav Synko | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | drama film, thriller film | Sweden |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Germany, Sweden |
| Growing Pains | Ze'ev Revach | teen film | Israel |
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | drama film | United States |
| Housata | Karel Smyczek | drama film | Czechoslovakia |
| If I Were the Boss... | Albert S. Mkrtchyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Inside Moves | Richard Donner | drama film | United States |
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | James Ivory | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Los Hijos de López | Enrique Dawi | comedy film | Argentina |
| Mirage Above the Gobi Desert | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Mstislav Keldysh | Gennady Raspopov | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Oh, God! Book II | Gilbert Cates | fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film | United States |
| Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later | Yuri Yegorov | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Petria's Wreath | Srđan Karanović | war film | Yugoslavia |
| Santa Esperansa | Sebastián Alarcón | drama film | Soviet Union, Chile |
| Schizoid | David Paulsen | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Silent Witness | Anatoli Mokatsyan | — | — |
| Simon | Marshall Brickman | science fiction comedy | United States |
| Snow Kid | Lin Wenxiao | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Cowards | Avi Nesher | romance film | Israel |
| The Man on the Golden Horse | Vasily Zhuravlyov | cinematic fairy tale, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The Memory of Eva Ryker | Walter Grauman | — | United States |
| Urodziny młodego warszawiaka | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | war film | Poland |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Will You Go Out Tomorrow? | Kamara Kamalova | melodrama, children's film | Soviet Union |