| Zabih | Mohammad Motevaselani | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Zajtrk petelinov | Max Modic | pornographic parody film, pornographic film, concert film | Slovenia |
| Zaklęte rewiry | Janusz Majewski | drama film | Czechoslovakia, Poland |
| Zamindar | V. Madhusudhan Rao | action thriller | India |
| Zan Boko | Gaston Kaboré | drama film | Burkina Faso |
| Zapach psiej siersci | Jan Batory | drama film | Poland |
| Zapretnaya zona | Nikolai Gubenko | sociodrama | Soviet Union |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Zatōichi | Takeshi Kitano | drama film, action film | Japan |
| Zazà | Renato Castellani | drama film | Italy |
| Zbrodniarz i panna | Janusz Nasfeter | mystery film, drama film, action film, thriller film | Poland |
| Zebra in the Kitchen | Ivan Tors | children's film | United States |
| Zegen | Shohei Imamura | drama film | Japan |
| Zelená vlna | Václav Vorlíček | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Zenon: Z3 | Steve Rash | teen film, children's film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Zeppelin | Lasse Glomm | drama film | Norway |
| Zero Effect | Jake Kasdan | mystery film, comedy film, comedy thriller | United States |
| Zero Point | Mihkel Ulk | teen film, drama film | Estonia |
| Zero Tolerance | Anders Nilsson | action film, thriller film, crime film | Sweden |
| Zeta One | — | science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Zeus and Roxanne | George T. Miller | children's film | United States |
| Zhai bei gao bei hou | Chang Yan | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Zhang Side | Yin Li | drama film, historical film, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| Zhmenyaky | Alfred Shestopalov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Zhou Enlai | Ding Yinnan | drama film, historical film, biographical film | People's Republic of China |
| Zhrebiy | Igor Voznesensky | drama film, sport film | Soviet Union |
| Ziarno fotografii | — | — | Poland |
| Ziegfeld Follies | Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Roy Del Ruth, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters | musical film | United States |
| Zila Ghaziabad | Anand Kumar | detective film | India |
| Zis Boom Bah | William Nigh | — | — |
| Zmiana warty | Halina Bielińska, Włodzimierz Haupe | — | Poland |
| Zo Reken | Emanuel Licha | documentary film | Canada |
| Zog | Daniel Snaddon, Max Lang | animated film, children's film | United Kingdom |
| Zokkomon | Satyajit Bhatkal | superhero film | India |
| Zola | Janicza Bravo | drama film | United States |
| Zombie and the Ghost Train | Mika Kaurismäki | comedy film | Finland |
| Zombie Strippers | Jay Lee | exploitation film, comedy horror film, zombie comedy, dystopian film, splatter film | United States |
| Zombiegeddon | Chris Watson | zombie comedy, comedy horror | United States |
| Zoom In: Rape Apartments | Naosuke Kurosawa | exploitation film, pink film, horror film, monster erotica, erotic film | Japan |
| Zoop in Africa | Dennis Bots, Johan Nijenhuis | romance film, drama film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Netherlands |
| Zootopia 2 | Byron Howard, Jared Bush | family film, comedy film, adventure film, buddy cop film | United States |
| Zorro, the Navarra Marquis | Franco Montemurro | adventure film | Italy |
| Zoya | Lev Arnshtam | — | — |
| Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark | martial arts film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | Hong Kong |
| Zudora | Frederic Richard Sullivan | — | — |
| Zuloak | Fermin Muguruza | pseudo-documentary | Spain |
| Zum Beispiel Josef | Erwin Stranka | — | East Germany |
| Zum Teufel mit der Penne | Werner Jacobs | comedy film | Germany |
| Zuma | Baldassarre Negroni | — | — |
| Zvezda Ulugbeka | Latif Fayziyev | historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Zydeco | — | music-themed film, documentary film | — |
| Zítra to roztočíme, drahoušku…! | Petr Schulhoff | satire, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |