| Y Streic a Fi | Ashley Way | historical fiction | Wales |
| Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie | Shūhei Shibue | — | Japan |
| Ya viene el cortejo... | Carlos Arévalo | documentary film | Francoist Spain |
| Yadang: The Snitch | Hwang Byeong-guk | drama film, action film, crime film | South Korea |
| Yagyu Secret Scrolls | Hiroshi Inagaki | — | — |
| Yagyū Ren'yasai: Hiden Tsukikage-shō | Katsuhiko Tasaka | — | — |
| Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi | Tomiyasu Ikeda | — | — |
| Yakuza and the Family | Michihito Fujii | yakuza film | Japan |
| Yalanci Yarim | Ertem Eğilmez | comedy film | Turkey |
| Yamagola | Tatineni Rama Rao | fantasy film | India |
| Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure | Chito S. Roño | adventure film | Philippines |
| Yang Patah Tumbuh, Yang Hilang Berganti | Herwin Novianto | drama film | Indonesia |
| Yaran | Farzan Deljou | — | Iran |
| Yaroslav Mudry | Hryhorii Kokhan | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Yarım Kalan Saadet | Türker İnanoğlu | romantic drama, musical film | Turkey |
| Yasuo Ōtsuka’s Joy in Motion | — | documentary film | Japan |
| Yatterman | Takashi Miike | comedy film | Japan |
| Ye Maaya Chesave | Gautham Vasudev Menon | romance film | India |
| Year as Long as Life | Grigori Roshal, Äzirbayzhan Mämbetov | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Year of the Dog | Mike White | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Year One | Harold Ramis | fantasy film, parody film, buddy film | United States |
| Yearning | Zeki Ökten | — | Turkey |
| Yek Dastan-e Vaghe'i | Abolfazl Jalili | drama film | Iran |
| Yeki khosh seda, yeki khosh dast | Reza Safaei | crime film | Iran |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Yellow Fingers | Emmett J. Flynn | — | — |
| Yellow Lily | Alexander Korda | — | — |
| Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | Western film | United States |
| Yellowstone | Arthur Lubin | — | — |
| Yentl | Barbra Streisand | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| Yesterday In Nyassan | Catherine Hébert | documentary film | Canada, Burkina Faso |
| Yesterday Never Ends | Isabel Coixet | drama film | Spain |
| Yeti: A Love Story | Adam Deyoe, Eric Gosselin | LGBTQ-related film, comedy horror | United States |
| Yhteinen vaimomme | Valentin Vaala | comedy film | Finland |
| YMCA Baseball Team | Kim Hyun-seok | drama film, sport film | South Korea |
| Yo Picasso | Sharon Maguire | documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! | Shigeharu Takahashi | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, adventure film | Japan |
| Yo-Yo Girl Cop | Kenta Fukasaku | martial arts film, girls with guns, action film | Japan |
| Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox | Lee Sung-gang | romance film, fantasy film, psychological drama film | South Korea |
| Yohan: The Child Wanderer | Grete Salomonsen Hynnekleiv | teen film, children's film | Norway |
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| Yoko | Franziska Buch | adventure film | Germany, Sweden, Austria |
| Yolanda and the Thief | Vincente Minnelli | fantasy film, musical film | United States |
| Yolki 1914 | Yuri Bykov, Alexander Kott, Aleksandr Karpilovsky, Timur Bekmambetov, Andrei Kavun, Dmitry Kiselyov | comedy film, anthology film | Russia |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film | France, Italy, Turkey |
| You and Me | Larisa Shepitko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| You Are Me | René Guissart | comedy film, musical film | France |
| You Are My Adventure | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| You Are So Beautiful | Isabelle Mergault | drama film, romantic comedy | France |
| You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah | Sammi Cohen | comedy drama | United States |
| You Belong to Me | Alfred L. Werker | drama film | United States |
| You Bet Your Life | Antonin Svoboda | drama film | Switzerland, Austria |
| You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | drama film | United States |
| You Don't Know Jack | Barry Levinson | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| You Instead | David Mackenzie | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| You Only Live Twice | Lewis Gilbert | action film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film, ninja film | United Kingdom, United States |
| You People | Kenya Barris | comedy film | United States |
| You'll Find Out | David Butler | — | — |
| You're a Big Boy Now | Francis Ford Coppola | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, comedy film | United States |
| You're Out of Your Mind, Mardie | Göran Graffman | family film, comedy film, children's film | Sweden |
| You're the One | José Luis Garci | drama film | Spain |
| You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron | Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| You, Me and Dupree | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Young Bill Hickok | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Young Blood | Manfred Noa | — | — |
| Young Bride | William A. Seiter | drama film | United States |
| Young Fugitives | John Rawlins | — | — |
| Young Juliette | Anne Émond | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama | Canada |
| Young Man of Manhattan | Monta Bell | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Young Medardus | Michael Curtiz | — | — |
| Young Miss | Yasujirō Ozu | silent film | Japan |
| Young Mother 3 | — | erotic film | South Korea |
| Young Mother Hubbard | Arthur Berthelet | — | — |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | drama film, trial film, biographical film | United States |
| Young One from Sabudara | Shota Managadze | — | — |
| Young People | Allan Dwan | — | — |
| Young Russia | Ilya Gurin | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Young Washington | Jon Erwin | drama film, war film, biographical film, epic film | United States |
| Young Woman and the Sea | Joachim Rønning | drama film, sport film, biographical film | United States |
| Your Friend the Rat | Jim Capobianco | family film, comedy film | United States |
| Your Highness | David Gordon Green | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| Your Uncle Dudley | Eugene Forde, James Tinling | comedy film | United States |
| Yousof va Zolaykha | Mehdi Reisfirooz | romance film, drama film, historical film | Turkey, Iran |
| Youth Topia | Dennis Stormer | drama film, comedy film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Youth Without Youth | Francis Ford Coppola | romance film, drama film, fantasy film | France, Germany, Romania, United States, Italy |
| Yowis Ben 2 | Bayu Skak, Fajar Nugros | drama film, comedy film | Indonesia |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light | Hatsuki Tsuji | fantasy film, action film, children's film, adventure film | Japan, United States |
| Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions | Satoshi Kuwabara | drama film, fantasy film, adventure film | Japan |
| Yuddham Sei | Mysskin | crime film | India |
| Yuma | Ted Post | Western film | United States |
| Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy | Guido Zurli | Western film | Italy, Turkey |
| Yuvaraju | Dasari Narayana Rao | drama film | India |
| Yuxu | Fikret Aliyev | comedy film | Azerbaijan |
| Yvonne of the Night | Giuseppe Amato | drama film | Italy |