| The Drinking Man's War | Per Oscarsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film | France, Sweden |
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston | animal horror film, horror film | Australia |
| Shaolin Daredevils | Chang Cheh | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Romance on Lushan Mountain | Huang Zumo | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie | Chuck Jones | — | United States |
| Dragon Fist | Lo Wei | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| The Avenging Eagle | Sun Chung | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, survival film, melodrama | United States |
| The Jerk | Carl Reiner | screwball comedy film | United States |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film | Italy |
| The Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng Hua | kaiju, horror film | Hong Kong |
| Alibaba Aur 40 Chor | Latif Fayziyev, Umesh Mehra | romance film, family film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | Soviet Union, India |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | drama film, hood film | United Kingdom |
| Air Crew | Alexander Mitta | disaster film | Soviet Union |
| Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller | United Kingdom |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | comedy film, biographical film | United States |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| The Watcher in the Woods | Vincent McEveety, John Hough | mystery film, horror film, ghost film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Electric Horseman | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| L'avare | Louis de Funès, Jean Girault | comedy film | France |
| ...And Justice for All | Norman Jewison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, trial film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Mad Monkey Kung Fu | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, comedy film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Pani Mariya | Natalya Troshchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| The Seventh-Rank Sesame Seed-Sized Official | Xie Tian | musical film, comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| Right On, Man! | Tapio Suominen | teen film, drama film | Finland |
| The Bailiff of Greifensee | Wilfried Bolliger | drama film | Germany, Switzerland |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Midnight Madness | Michael Nankin | teen film, comedy film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| O. K., Leave It to Me, Boss...! | Petr Schulhoff | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Robert Clouse | drama film, action film, crime film | United States, Hong Kong |
| The Rabbit Case | Jaromil Jireš | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| The Widow of Montiel | Miguel Littin | drama film | Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | documentary film | Canada |
| Little Valentino | András Jeles | drama film | Hungary |
| Bus Number 3 | Luo Tai, Wang Jiayi | comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | neo-noir, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | time-travel film, science fiction film | United States |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | coming-of-age film, drama film | Canada |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | comedy film, retrofuturism | United States |
| More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | coming-of-age film, teen film | Canada |
| The Warriors | Walter Hill | drama film, action film, thriller film, hood film | United States |
| Damien: Omen II | Don Taylor | mystery film, horror film | United Kingdom, United States |