| The Deep | Peter Yates | mystery film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| The Disappearance | Stuart Cooper | thriller film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Report | Abbas Kiarostami | drama film | Iran |
| The Stone | Hafiz Əkbərov | drama film, short film, musical film | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| The Three Superboys in the Snow | Natuk Baytan, Ernst Hofbauer | comedy film | Italy, Turkey |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ulan | Tolomush Okeyev | drama film, tragedy | Soviet Union |
| Veter 'Nadezhdy' | Stanislav Govorukhin | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | John Korty | documentary film | United States |
| Yamagola | Tatineni Rama Rao | fantasy film | India |
| Yeki khosh seda, yeki khosh dast | Reza Safaei | crime film | Iran |
| A Technical Malfunction | Nosratollah Vahdat | comedy film | Iran |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, historical film, crime film | United States |
| Alltagslegende | László Félix | — | Hungary |
| Ardour | Mehdi Reisfirooz | action film, crime film | Iran |
| Assault! Jack the Ripper | Yasuharu Hasebe | pink film | Japan |
| Awake in the City | Iraj Ghaderi | crime film | Iran |
| Black Magic 2 | Ho Meng Hua | horror film, zombie film | Hong Kong |
| Brother and Sister | Tadashi Imai | drama film | Japan |
| Buddies | Jan Halldoff | drama film | Sweden |
| Calmos | Bertrand Blier | comedy film | France |
| Chanson pour Julie | Jacques Vallée | fiction film, drama film | Canada |
| Death Under Sail | Ada Neretniece | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Delivery | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Eight Hundred Heroes | Ting Shan-hsi | war film | Taiwan |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — | Australia |
| God's Gun | Gianfranco Parolini | Spaghetti Western | Italy, Israel |
| Honeymoon | Fereydun Gole | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| House of Pleasure for Women | Pupi Avati | comedy film | Italy |
| Human life | Jigjidsuren Gombojav | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | romance film, drama film | Turkey, Iran |
| Jaahel and the Dancer | Reza Safaei | drama film | Iran |
| Jayezeh | Nasser Mohammadi | — | Iran |
| Lake Sonata | Gunārs Cilinskis, Varis Brasla | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Los Hombres sólo piensan en eso | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Madar Joonam Aashegh Shode | Akbar Sadeghi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | drama film | East Germany |
| Mard dar atash | Nader Ghane | — | Iran |
| Murder by Death | Robert Moore | mystery film, comedy film, crime film | United States |
| My Business (film) | Leonid Maryagin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| My Heart's in the Highlands | Levon Grigoryan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nelken in Aspik | Günter Reisch | comedy film | East Germany, Germany |
| Network | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy film, drama film, satirical film, comedy film, black comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Patsura | — | drama film | Georgian SSR |
| Pishkesvat | Reza Fazeli | — | Iran |
| Red and Black (1976 film) | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ryadom s toboy | — | children's film | Soviet Union |