| Sandakan No. 8 | Kei Kumai | drama film | Japan |
| Shazdeh Ehtejab | Bahman Farmanara | drama film | Iran |
| Skvorets i Lira | Grigori Aleksandrov | spy film | Soviet Union |
| Svet v kontse tonnelya | Aloizs Brenčs | crime film | Soviet Union |
| The Barefoot Bride | Siamak Yasemi | — | Iran |
| The Chivalrous | Fereydoun Jourak | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Richard Friedenberg | drama television series, adventure television series | United States |
| The Skyhawk | Jeong Chang-hwa | action film | Hong Kong |
| The Street Fighter | Shigehiro Ozawa | martial arts film, action film | Japan |
| The Tournament | Huang Feng | action film | Hong Kong |
| The Year of the Solar Eclipse | Jamyanguyn Buntar | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Three Supermen of the West | Italo Martinenghi, George Martin | science fiction film | Spain, Italy |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | drama film, comedy film, action film, heist film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Trapped Beneath the Sea | William A. Graham | action film, disaster film | United States |
| Vani Rani | Tapi Chanakya | — | India |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | drama film | United States |
| Whichever Way the Ball Bounces | Rajko Grlić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Yaran | Farzan Deljou | — | Iran |
| Yearning | Zeki Ökten | — | Turkey |
| Zhrebiy | Igor Voznesensky | drama film, sport film | Soviet Union |
| A House for Seraphim | Iacob Burghiu | — | Soviet Union |
| At the Last Moment | Nasser Mohammadi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Bandari | Kamran Qadakchian | romance film, action film | Iran |
| Big Gus, What's the Fuss? | Lloyd Kaufman | comedy film | Israel |
| Bolshoy tramplin | Leanid Martynyuk | sport film | Soviet Union |
| Die Elixiere des Teufels | Ralf Kirsten | drama film, historical film | East Germany, Germany |
| Earthquake! | — | documentary film | United States |
| England Made Me (film) | Peter Duffell | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Ganga Manga | Tapi Chanakya | — | India |
| Hell Up in Harlem | Larry Cohen | drama film, thriller film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| In the Black Sands | Iskander Khamrayev | historical film, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Jabbar, Runaway Sergeant | Aman Manteghi | crime film | Iran |
| Jaise Ko Taisa | Murugan Kumaran | — | India |
| Jeevana Tarangalu | Tatineni Rama Rao | — | India |
| Lady Snowblood | Toshiya Fujita | thriller film | Japan |
| Levan Khidasheli | Vakhtang Tabliashvili | — | Soviet Union |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | drama film, crime film | France, United States, Italy |
| Ma'shooghe | Reza Safaei | — | Iran |
| Mr. Jahel | Reza Mirlohi | drama film, thriller film | Iran |
| My Dear Brother | Ertem Eğilmez | drama film | Turkey |
| Nadezhda | Mark Donskoy | — | Soviet Union |
| Nakhoda Ba Khoda | Nosratollah Vahdat | — | Iran |
| Neylon 100% | Vladimir Basov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| O.K. ... Laliberté | Marcel Carrière | comedy drama | Canada |
| Ogonki | Boris Rytsarev | drama film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Old Walls | Viktor Tregubovich | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle | Leonid Bykov | war film, musical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Oļegs un Aina | Aleksandrs Leimanis | — | Soviet Union |