| MASH | Robert Altman | American football film, drama film, war film, black comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Messengers of Eternity | Teodor Vulfovich | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Mezh vysokikh khlebov | Leonid Sergeevich Millionshchikov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Monte Walsh | William A. Fraker | Western film | United States |
| Mr. Naive | Dariush Mehrjui | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| Musik, Musik - da wackelt die Penne | Franz Antel | comedy film | Germany |
| Myra Breckinridge | Mike Sarne | LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Reza Motorcyclist | Masoud Kimiai | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Scrooge | Ronald Neame | drama film, fantasy film, Christmas film, musical film | United Kingdom |
| Sekke-ye shans | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film | Iran |
| Sex Jack | Kōji Wakamatsu | pink film, drama film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Shango | Edoardo Mulargia | Spaghetti Western | Italy |
| Some Will, Some Won't | Duncan Wood | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Song of Norway | Andrew L. Stone | musical film | United States |
| Squeeze a Flower | Marc Daniels | comedy film | Australia |
| Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo | Toshiya Fujita | — | Japan |
| Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came | Hy Averback | comedy drama | United States |
| The Cheyenne Social Club | Paul Helmick, Gene Kelly | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The City Jungle | Stavros Tsiolis | drama film | Greece |
| The Devil's Servants | Aleksandrs Leimanis | romance film, comedy film, historical film, satanic film | Soviet Union |
| The Great White Hope | Martin Ritt | romance film, drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| The Hawaiians | Tom Gries | drama film | United States |
| The Kremlin Letter | John Huston | political thriller film, LGBTQ-related film, spy film | United States |
| The Liberation of L.B. Jones | William Wyler | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The McKenzie Break | Lamont Johnson | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, Ireland |
| The Ossuary | Jan Švankmajer | — | Czechoslovakia |
| The Owl and the Pussycat | Herbert Ross | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow | fantasy film | United States |
| The Polynin Case | Aleksey Sakharov | romance film, drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Kevin Billington | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| The Teacher Was One Hell of a Man | Kostas Karagiannis | comedy film | Greece |
| The Twelve Gold Medallions | Cheng Kang | action film | Hong Kong |
| The White Bird Marked with Black | Yuri Ilyenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Wild Child | François Truffaut | drama film | France, United States |
| Those Crazy Years | Enrique Carreras | musical film | Argentina |
| Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Two Mules for Sister Sara | Don Siegel | comedy film, Western film, war film | United States |
| Vietnam Veedu | P. Madhavan | drama film | India |
| Vilaiyaattu Pillai | A. P. Nagarajan | drama film | India |
| Visibility Zero | Nikos Foskolos | drama film | Greece |
| Wake Up, Mes Bons Amis! | Pierre Perrault | documentary film | Canada |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | comedy drama | United States |
| We and Our Mountains | Henrik Malyan | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Wood Pigeon | Ali Hatami | drama film | Iran |
| Yarım Kalan Saadet | Türker İnanoğlu | romantic drama, musical film | Turkey |
| Zeta One | — | science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |