| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| Havoc in Heaven | Tang Cheng, Wan Laiming | fantasy film, children's film | People's Republic of China |
| Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | France, Germany, Norway, Sweden |
| Superman | Richard Donner | superhero film, action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Pod Jezevci skalou | Václav Gajer | children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film | United States |
| The Man Who Loved Women | François Truffaut | flashback film, romantic comedy | France |
| Just like Home | Márta Mészáros | drama film | Hungary |
| Cekání na dést | Karel Kachyňa | drama film, children's film | Czechoslovakia |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | drama film | France, Germany |
| A Strange Woman | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Shadows of a Hot Summer | František Vláčil | drama film, war film | Czechoslovakia |
| Hvem har bestemt..!? | Petter Vennerød | drama film | Norway |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | crime film | France |
| Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun | Jesús Franco | lesbian-related film, drama film, nunsploitation, satanic film, horror film, religious film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Kaerazaru hibi | Toshiya Fujita | drama film | Japan |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Confusion of Feelings | Pavel Arsyonov | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | comedy film, concert film, docufiction | Sweden, Australia |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Stroszek | Werner Herzog | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film | United States |
| A Hunting Accident | Emil Loteanu | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union, West Germany |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | music documentary film, concert film | United States |
| Wrong Connection | Viktor Tregubovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | drama film | United States |
| Film Novel: Three Sisters | István Dárday | documentary film | Hungary |
| La Zizanie | Claude Zidi | comedy film | France |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| One Night Stand | Allan King | drama film, thriller film | Canada |
| Men Can't Be Raped | Jörn Donner | drama film | Finland, Sweden |
| The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High | Mariano Laurenti | comedy film, sex comedy | France, Italy |
| Formynderne | Nicole Macé | drama film | Norway |
| Perceval le Gallois | Éric Rohmer | drama film, historical film, medieval film | France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| Puika | Aivars Freimanis | family film | Soviet Union |
| March or Die | Dick Richards | drama film, war film | United Kingdom |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | Germany, United States, Sweden |
| Biohazard | Janusz Kubik | science fiction | Polish People's Republic |
| 10 minutes older | Herz Frank | documentary film | Soviet Union, Latvia |
| 1922 | Nikos Koundouros | drama film | Greece |
| A Declaration of Love | Ilya Averbakh | romance film | Soviet Union |
| A Moment Decides Everything | Viktor Sadovsky | sport film | Soviet Union |
| Aanappaachan | A. Vincent | — | India |
| Always for Pleasure | Les Blank | documentary film | United States |
| Avalanche | Corey Allen | action film, thriller film, disaster film | United States |
| Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron | Hideo Gosha | samurai cinema, Jidaigeki | Japan |
| Bir Aşk Masalı | Ajdar Ibrahimov | drama film | Soviet Union, Turkey |
| Blood Relatives | Claude Chabrol | drama film, film noir | France, Canada |
| Blue Fin | Carl Schultz | independent film | Australia |
| Captain Harlock: Mystery of the Arcadia | Rintaro | space opera | Japan |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | drama film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| Dawns Are Kissing | Sergei Nikonenko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Errors of Youth | Boris Frumin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Grand Slam | John Hefin | — | United Kingdom |
| Happy Merry-Go-Round No.10 | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Heroes of the East | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Inquest of Pilot Pirx | Marek Piestrak | thriller film, science fiction film | Soviet Union, Estonia, Poland |
| Koncert në vitin 1936 | Saimir Kumbaro | drama film | Albania |
| Krasavets-muzhchina | Margarita Mikaelyan | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Kvarkvare | Devi Abashidze | adventure film | Georgian SSR |
| Lady Black Rose | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film | Japan |
| Little Man | Ze'ev Revach | drama film | Israel |
| Marsieh | Amir Naderi | drama film | Iran |
| Natalka Poltavka | Rodion Yefymenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Out of Breath | Sirus Alvand | — | Iran |
| Pink Tush Girl | Kōyū Ohara | pink film | Japan |
| Po ulitsam komod vodili... | Mark Genin | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | teen film, musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Sweeney 2 | Tom Clegg | crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Bloodstained Shadow | Antonio Bido | thriller film | Italy |
| The Comeback | Pete Walker | mystery film, horror film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| The Late Berry | Fyodor Filippov | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| The Proud Youth | Sun Chung | action film | Hong Kong |
| Toʻylar muborak | Eduard Khachaturov | comedy film | Soviet Union, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Ukhodya - ukhodi | Viktor Tregubovich | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Which Way to the Septic Tank? | Thodoros Maragos | comedy film | Greece |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Ted Kotcheff | comedy film | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy |
| Winds of the Milky Way | Lennart Meri | documentary film | Soviet Union, Estonia, Hungary, Finland |
| Yaroslavna, Queen of France | Igor Maslennikov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union, Poland |