| Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok | Knut Bohwim | crime comedy film | Norway |
| That Man Bolt | David Lowell Rich, Henry Levin | action film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Kuei Chih-hung | drama film, action film, sexploitation film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, women in prison film | British Hong Kong |
| The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | drama film, comedy film, road movie, buddy film | United States |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | mystery film, drama film, horror film, dystopian film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| El principio | Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | romance film, drama film, historical film, action film, war film | Mexico |
| Yalanci Yarim | Ertem Eğilmez | comedy film | Turkey |
| Two Men in Town | José Giovanni | drama film, neo-noir, crime film | France, Italy |
| The Illumination | Krzysztof Zanussi | drama film | Poland |
| Privalov's Millions | Yaropolk Lapshin | historical film | Soviet Union |
| The Golden Seal | — | — | Hong Kong |
| Hopelessly Lost | Georgiy Daneliya | tragicomedy, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Uuno Turhapuro | Ere Kokkonen | comedy film | Finland |
| Grandmaster | Sergey Mikaelyan | drama film, sport film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | gangster film, crime film | United States |
| The Twelve Chairs | Mel Brooks | comedy film | United States |
| Towns and Years | Aleksandr Zarkhi | period drama film | Soviet Union |
| One Little Indian | Bernard McEveety | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Showdown | George Seaton | Western film | United States |
| Dillinger | John Milius | heist film, crime film | United States |
| Female Vampire | Jesús Franco | horror film, vampire film, sexploitation film, erotic film | France, Belgium |
| Scorpio | Michael Winner | drama film, action film, spy film, thriller film | United States |
| Even Angels Eat Beans | Enzo Barboni | comedy film, buddy film | France, Italy |
| Godzilla vs. Megalon | Jun Fukuda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Copernicus | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | historical film | East Germany, Poland |
| A Man Before His Time | Abram Room | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Karpukhin | Vladimir Vengerov | psychological drama | Soviet Union |
| The Offence | Sidney Lumet | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| A House for Seraphim | Iacob Burghiu | — | Soviet Union |
| At the Last Moment | Nasser Mohammadi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Bandari | Kamran Qadakchian | romance film, action film | Iran |
| Big Gus, What's the Fuss? | Lloyd Kaufman | comedy film | Israel |
| Bolshoy tramplin | Leanid Martynyuk | sport film | Soviet Union |
| Die Elixiere des Teufels | Ralf Kirsten | drama film, historical film | East Germany, Germany |
| Earthquake! | — | documentary film | United States |
| England Made Me (film) | Peter Duffell | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Ganga Manga | Tapi Chanakya | — | India |
| Hell Up in Harlem | Larry Cohen | drama film, thriller film, blaxploitation film, crime film | United States |
| In the Black Sands | Iskander Khamrayev | historical film, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Jabbar, Runaway Sergeant | Aman Manteghi | crime film | Iran |
| Jaise Ko Taisa | Murugan Kumaran | — | India |
| Jeevana Tarangalu | Tatineni Rama Rao | — | India |
| Lady Snowblood | Toshiya Fujita | thriller film | Japan |
| Levan Khidasheli | Vakhtang Tabliashvili | — | Soviet Union |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | drama film, crime film | France, United States, Italy |
| Ma'shooghe | Reza Safaei | — | Iran |
| Mr. Jahel | Reza Mirlohi | drama film, thriller film | Iran |
| My Dear Brother | Ertem Eğilmez | drama film | Turkey |
| Nadezhda | Mark Donskoy | — | Soviet Union |
| Nakhoda Ba Khoda | Nosratollah Vahdat | — | Iran |
| Neylon 100% | Vladimir Basov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| O.K. ... Laliberté | Marcel Carrière | comedy drama | Canada |
| Ogonki | Boris Rytsarev | drama film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Old Walls | Viktor Tregubovich | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle | Leonid Bykov | war film, musical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Oļegs un Aina | Aleksandrs Leimanis | — | Soviet Union |
| Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Papoosh | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Pesar-khande | Jamshid Sheybani | drama film | Iran |
| Pigs Are Seldom Clean | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | fiction film | Canada |
| Runan Caycu | Nora de Izcue | biographical film, documentary film | Peru |
| Samyy silnyy | Oleg Nikolayevsky | family film, fantasy film | Soviet Union |
| Sharoor | Nasser Mohammadi | crime film | Iran |
| Ska vi hem till dig... eller hem till mig... eller var och en till sitt? | Lasse Hallström | comedy film | Sweden |
| Sukeban | Noribumi Suzuki | exploitation film | Japan |
| Sweet Scent Of Eros | Toshiya Fujita | pink film, drama film | Japan |
| Taher | — | — | Iran |
| Tales That Witness Madness | Freddie Francis | horror film, comedy horror | United Kingdom |
| Tango 2001 | Kostas Karagiannis | thriller film | Greece |
| Tangsir | Amir Naderi | drama film, historical film, thriller film | Iran |
| Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom | Noribumi Suzuki | pink film, LGBTQ-related film | Japan |
| The All-American Boy | Charles K. Eastman | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| The Belstone Fox | James Hill | children's film | United Kingdom |
| The Greatest Dilemma | Khosrow Parvizi | comedy film | Iran |
| The Hateful Wolf | Maziar Partow | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | drama film, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film | Mexico |
| The House in Nightmare Park | Peter Sykes | comedy horror | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Mistress | Azizaleh Bahadori | — | Iran |
| The Real Decameron | Mario Caiano | comedy film | Italy |
| The Wanderers | Kon Ichikawa | drama film, comedy film | Japan |
| The Way We Were | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Twister! | — | documentary film | United States |
| Ultimatum | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | fiction film | Canada |
| Vurgun | Zeki Ökten | — | Turkey |
| Wine | Bagrat Hovhannisyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Yumurcak Küçük Kovboy | Guido Zurli | Western film | Italy, Turkey |