| The Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg | drama film, action film, thriller film | Sweden |
| The Front | Martin Ritt | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Seclusion Near a Forest | Jiří Menzel | drama film, family film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél | György Szomjas | drama film, Western film | Hungary |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | Australia |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | psychological thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| Jaaneman | Chetan Anand | — | India |
| Squirm | Jeff Lieberman | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Swashbuckler | James Goldstone | pirate film, children's film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| Hand of Death | John Woo | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| New Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film, Bruceploitation | Hong Kong |
| The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood | Western film, vigilante film | United States |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton | Western film, action film, horror film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Gekitotsu! Wakadaishō | Tsugunobu Kotani | ice hockey film | Japan |
| The Marquise of O | Éric Rohmer | drama film | France, Germany |
| The Bad News Bears | Michael Ritchie | coming-of-age film, comedy film | United States |
| The Blue Bird | George Cukor | family film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union, United States |
| The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox | Melvin Frank | Western film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Sky Riders | Douglas Hickox | action film | United States |
| Eleven Hopes | Viktor Sadovsky | sport film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | historical film, biographical film | Polish People's Republic |
| Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 | Knut Andersen | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | Norway |
| Árvácska | László Ranódy | drama film | Hungary |
| Mother, I Love You | Dariush Kooshan | — | Iran |
| Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare | Junya Satō | drama film | Japan |
| Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Paul Mazursky | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Finist, the Brave Falcon | Gennady Vasilyev, Alexander Rou | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The Lost Expedition | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | mystery film, drama film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Tut og kjør | Knut Bohwim | children's film | Norway |
| Hustle | Robert Aldrich | mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, neo-noir | United States |
| The Black Bird | David Giler | parody film | United States |
| Flic Story | Jacques Deray | drama film, crime film | France, Italy |
| Hrani Svoyu Zvezdu | Sharip Beisembayev | drama film | Soviet Union, Kazakhstan |
| Newlywed Hell | Akira Katō | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Zaklęte rewiry | Janusz Majewski | drama film | Czechoslovakia, Poland |
| Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches | Dinara Asanova | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Operation Daybreak | Lewis Gilbert | drama film, adventure film, war film | United States, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| Story Of A Nymphomaniac | Ikuo Sekimoto | erotic film | Japan |
| Death at an Old Mansion | Yoichi Takabayashi | horror film | Japan |
| Nights and Days | Jerzy Antczak | drama film, melodrama, war film | Poland |
| The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | fantasy film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Junkmen | Bo Hermansson | comedy film | Norway |
| Min Marion | Nils R. Müller | drama film | Norway |
| Earthly Love | Yevgeny Matveyev | romance film, drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | Robert Stevenson | comedy film, neo-noir | United Kingdom, United States |
| One Hundred Days After Childhood | Sergei Solovyov | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Day of Admittance on Personal Matters | Solomon Shuster | drama film | Soviet Union |