| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | arthouse science fiction film, art film, drama film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Sky Trap | Jerome Courtland | adventure film | United States |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, war drama, drama film, satirical film, action film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, psychological drama film, epic film | United States |
| A Wedding | Robert Altman | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Cop or Hood | Georges Lautner | mystery film, comedy film, action film, crime film | France, Italy |
| Hospital of the Transfiguration | Edward Żebrowski | drama film | Poland |
| The Angry Man | Claude Pinoteau | drama film | France, Canada |
| Alice in Wonderland | Bud Townsend | musical comedy, fantasy film, pornographic parody film, pornographic film, erotic film, musical film | United States |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| Agent of the Secret Service | — | drama film, detective film | Soviet Union |
| Angi Vera | Pál Gábor | drama film | Hungary |
| Blood of the Railroad Workers | Erik Solbakken | romance film, drama film, historical film | Norway |
| Love and Bullets | John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, action film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | romance film, drama film, flashback film | France |
| Thirisoolam | K. Vijayan | — | India |
| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| Havoc in Heaven | Tang Cheng, Wan Laiming | fantasy film, children's film | People's Republic of China |
| Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | France, Germany, Norway, Sweden |
| Superman | Richard Donner | superhero film, action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Pod Jezevci skalou | Václav Gajer | children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film | United States |
| The Man Who Loved Women | François Truffaut | flashback film, romantic comedy | France |
| Just like Home | Márta Mészáros | drama film | Hungary |
| Cekání na dést | Karel Kachyňa | drama film, children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | drama film | France, Germany |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Shadows of a Hot Summer | František Vláčil | drama film, war film | Czechoslovakia |
| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | drama film | Norway |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | crime film | France |
| Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun | Jesús Franco | lesbian-related film, drama film, nunsploitation, satanic film, horror film, religious film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Kaerazaru hibi | Toshiya Fujita | drama film | Japan |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Confusion of Feelings | Pavel Arsyonov | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | comedy film, concert film, docufiction | Sweden, Australia |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film | United States |
| A Hunting Accident | Emil Loteanu | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union, West Germany |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | music documentary film, concert film | United States |
| Wrong Connection | Viktor Tregubovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | drama film | United States |
| Film Novel: Three Sisters | István Dárday | documentary film | Hungary |
| La Zizanie | Claude Zidi | comedy film | France |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| Men Can't Be Raped | Jörn Donner | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High | Mariano Laurenti | comedy film, sex comedy | France, Italy |
| Formynderne | Nicole Macé | drama film | Norway |