| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | drama film, action film, thriller film, detective film, buddy cop film | United States |
| The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | parody film | United States |
| Animal | Claude Zidi | comedy film, action film | France |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Destiny | Yevgeny Matveyev | romance film, drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Office Romance | Eldar Ryazanov | drama film, romantic comedy | Soviet Union |
| Mina, Wind of Freedom | Antonio Eceiza | drama film, adventure film, biographical film | Mexico |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Devil's Island | Kon Ichikawa | — | Japan |
| The Iron-Fisted Monk | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, drama film, historical film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United Kingdom, United States |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | horror film, comedy horror | Japan |
| Money Crazy | John Woo | comedy film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Orca | Michael Anderson | natural horror film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, disaster film | Italy, Netherlands |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Magnificent Wanderers | Chang Cheh | — | Hong Kong |
| Piano Player’s Night | Jindřich Polák | crime film | Czechoslovakia |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Sweet Woman | Vladimir Fetin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Screen Tests | Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Domaradzki | drama film | Poland |
| The Key That Should Not Be Handed On | Dinara Asanova | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Question | Laurent Heynemann | drama film | France |
| Birds of Our Hopes | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | — | Soviet Union |
| Aty-baty, shli soldaty... | Leonid Bykov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| Speech for the Defence | Vadim Abdrashitov | legal drama | Soviet Union |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, technofantasy, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Dagny | Haakon Sandøy | drama film, biographical film | Norway, Poland |
| Golden River | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| A Butterfly in the Night | Armando Bó | comedy drama | Argentina |
| Autumn Sun | Bagrat Hovhannisyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Bag of the Collector | Avgust Baltrušaitis | crime film | Soviet Union |
| Basta de mujeres | Hugo Moser | comedy film | Argentina |
| Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! | Noboru Tanaka | pink film, drama film | Japan |
| Blue Fire Lady | Ross Dimsey | drama film, family film | Australia |
| Camouflage | Krzysztof Zanussi | comedy film | Poland |
| Die Konsequenz | Wolfgang Petersen | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Germany |
| Do kalle-shagh | Iraj Ghaderi | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl? | Adolf Bergunker | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Eros School: Feels So Good | Koretsugu Kurahara | pink film, erotic film | Japan |
| Etnocidio: Notas sobre El Mezquital | Paul Leduc | drama film, documentary film | Canada, Mexico |
| Fantasm Comes Again | Colin Eggleston | pornographic film | Australia |
| Fascination: Portrait of a Lady | Kōyū Ohara | pink film | Japan |
| Friendship | Reza Safaei, Iraj Ghaderi | — | Iran |
| Fräulein Devil | Patrice Rhomm | exploitation film | France |
| Galatea | Alexander Belinsky | ballet film | Soviet Union |
| Garmoniya (film) | Viktor Zhivolub | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Golden Mine | Evgeny Tatarsky | mystery film | Soviet Union |
| Grey | Taghi Mokhtar | — | Iran |
| Happy Merry-Go-Round No.9 | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Hershele | Joel Silberg | — | Israel |
| Incognito from St. Petersburg | Leonid Gaidai | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Intermediaries | Hassan Mohammadzadeh | — | Iran |
| Kan Kardeşler | Ertem Göreç | — | Turkey, Iran |
| Khoda ghovvat | Abbas Kasayi | — | Iran |
| Kooch | Mehdi Reisfirooz | drama film, crime film | Iran |
| Koose-ye Jonoob | Samuel Khachikian | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Iran |
| Le Portique des cieux | Roger Dallier | — | France |
| Love at First Sight | Rezo Esadze | comedy film | Georgian SSR |
| Man of God | Reza Safaei | — | Iran |
| Mr. Etemad's Trouble | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Naval Commandos | Chang Cheh, Wu Ma | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Parrot | Zackaria Hashemi | drama film | Iran |
| Pendekar | M. Amin | — | Malaysia |
| Rape! 13th Hour | Yasuharu Hasebe | pink film, rape and revenge film, erotic film | Japan |
| Samanishvili's Stepmother | Eldar Shengelaya | comedy film | Georgian SSR |
| Scent of Wheat | Farzan Deljou | drama film | Iran |
| Seibo kannon daibosatsu | Kōji Wakamatsu | erotic film | Japan |
| Shab-e aftabi | Sirus Alvand | — | Iran |
| Spartacus | Yury Grigorovich, Vadim Derbenyov | drama film, ballet film | Soviet Union |
| Telefon | Don Siegel | action film, crime film | United States |
| The Ash Morning | Taghi Mokhtar | — | Iran |
| The Beginning of the Legend | Boris Grigoryev | drama film, children's film, war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| The Brave Archer | Chang Cheh | fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| The Classmate | Siavash Shakeri | — | Iran |
| The Cry Under Water | Sirus Alvand | romance film, drama film, crime film | Iran |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | mystery film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| The Disappearance | Stuart Cooper | thriller film | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Report | Abbas Kiarostami | drama film | Iran |
| The Stone | Hafiz Əkbərov | drama film, short film, musical film | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| The Three Superboys in the Snow | Natuk Baytan, Ernst Hofbauer | comedy film | Italy, Turkey |
| Trouble | Dinara Asanova | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ulan | Tolomush Okeyev | drama film, tragedy | Soviet Union |
| Veter 'Nadezhdy' | Stanislav Govorukhin | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | John Korty | documentary film | United States |
| Yamagola | Tatineni Rama Rao | fantasy film | India |
| Yeki khosh seda, yeki khosh dast | Reza Safaei | crime film | Iran |