| Olsenbanden for full musikk | Knut Bohwim | crime comedy film | Norway |
| Barney | David Waddington | — | Australia |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | mystery film, comedy thriller, action comedy film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor | Alexander Mitta | romance film, historical film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Malakout | Khosrow Haritash | — | Iran |
| Mister Scarface | Fernando Di Leo | poliziotteschi | Germany, Italy |
| Reisen til julestjernen | Ola Solum | fantasy film, children's film, Christmas film | Norway |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | drama film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| Zítra to roztočíme, drahoušku…! | Petr Schulhoff | satire, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Trouble Maker | Atıf Yılmaz | — | Turkey |
| The Passover Plot | Michael Campus | drama film | United States, Israel |
| 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 |
| A Technical Malfunction | Nosratollah Vahdat | comedy film | Iran |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, historical film, crime film | United States |
| Alltagslegende | László Félix | — | Hungary |
| Ardour | Mehdi Reisfirooz | action film, crime film | Iran |
| Assault! Jack the Ripper | Yasuharu Hasebe | pink film | Japan |
| Awake in the City | Iraj Ghaderi | crime film | Iran |
| Black Magic 2 | Ho Meng Hua | horror film, zombie film | Hong Kong |
| Brother and Sister | Tadashi Imai | drama film | Japan |
| Buddies | Jan Halldoff | drama film | Sweden |
| Calmos | Bertrand Blier | comedy film | France |
| Chanson pour Julie | Jacques Vallée | fiction film, drama film | Canada |
| Death Under Sail | Ada Neretniece | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Delivery | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Eight Hundred Heroes | Ting Shan-hsi | war film | Taiwan |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — | Australia |
| God's Gun | Gianfranco Parolini | Spaghetti Western | Italy, Israel |
| Honeymoon | Fereydun Gole | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| House of Pleasure for Women | Pupi Avati | comedy film | Italy |
| Human life | Jigjidsuren Gombojav | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| İki Kızgın Adam | Ertem Göreç | romance film, drama film | Turkey, Iran |
| Jaahel and the Dancer | Reza Safaei | drama film | Iran |
| Jayezeh | Nasser Mohammadi | — | Iran |
| Lake Sonata | Gunārs Cilinskis, Varis Brasla | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Los Hombres sólo piensan en eso | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Madar Joonam Aashegh Shode | Akbar Sadeghi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | drama film | East Germany |
| Mard dar atash | Nader Ghane | — | Iran |
| Murder by Death | Robert Moore | mystery film, comedy film, crime film | United States |
| My Business (film) | Leonid Maryagin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| My Heart's in the Highlands | Levon Grigoryan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Nelken in Aspik | Günter Reisch | comedy film | East Germany, Germany |
| Network | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy film, drama film, satirical film, comedy film, black comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Patsura | — | drama film | Georgian SSR |
| Pishkesvat | Reza Fazeli | — | Iran |
| Red and Black (1976 film) | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ryadom s toboy | — | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Smrt mouchy | Karel Kachyňa | drama film | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
| Sparkle | Sam O'Steen | musical film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Story of an Unknown Actor | Aleksandr Zarkhi | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Summer | Arvo Kruusement | drama film, comedy film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Süt Kardeşler | Ertem Eğilmez | comedy horror | Turkey |
| The Darvish Detonates Paris | Kamil Rüstəmbəyov, Şamil Mahmudbəyov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The Inugamis | Kon Ichikawa | drama film | Japan |
| The Kid | Khosrow Parvizi | — | Iran |
| The Lady from the Town | Piro Milkani | romantic comedy film | Albania |
| The Last Supper | Shahyar Ghanbari | police film, crime film | Iran |
| The Legacy | Abdollah Ghiabi | — | Iran |
| The Man from the Movies | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | fiction film, docudrama | Canada |
| The Port | — | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| The Story of David | Alex Segal, David Lowell Rich | drama film | United States |
| The Strogovs | Vladimir Vengerov | epic film | Soviet Union |
| The Wishing Tree | Tengiz Abuladze | drama film | Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Um ano de independência | Fernando d’Almeida e Silva, Luís Carlos Patraquim | documentary film | Mozambique |
| Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca | Mario Morra | comedy film | Italy |