| Manjil Virinja Pookkal | Fazil | romance film | India |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, jiangshi fiction, fantasy film, action film, comedy horror | Hong Kong |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | historical drama film, drama film, sport film, historical film, action film, neo-noir, period drama film, biographical film, boxing film | United States |
| Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, space opera, science fiction film, epic film | United States |
| Legend of Tianyun Mountain | Xie Jin | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | romance film, drama film, crime film | France, Canada, United States |
| The Youth of Peter the Great | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union, East Germany |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | drama film | United States |
| The Seventh Company Outdoors | Robert Lamoureux | comedy film | France |
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Peter Sellers, Richard Quine | comedy film, science fiction film, parody film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | comedy film, action film, adventure film, road movie | South Africa, Botswana |
| A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov | Nikita Mikhalkov | romance film, historical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | Eddie Lateste, Peyo | fantasy film, children's film, musical film | Belgium |
| The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | action film, war film | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland |
| The Battle of Guningtou | Chang Tseng-chai | drama film, war film | Taiwan |
| The Drinking Man's War | Per Oscarsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film | France, Sweden |
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston | animal horror film, horror film | Australia |
| Shaolin Daredevils | Chang Cheh | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Romance on Lushan Mountain | Huang Zumo | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie | Chuck Jones | — | United States |
| Dragon Fist | Lo Wei | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film | United States |
| The Avenging Eagle | Sun Chung | martial arts film, drama film, action film | Hong Kong |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, survival film, melodrama | United States |
| The Jerk | Carl Reiner | screwball comedy film | United States |
| Ragazza alla pari | Mino Guerrini | comedy film, erotic film | Italy |
| The Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng Hua | kaiju, horror film | Hong Kong |
| Alibaba Aur 40 Chor | Latif Fayziyev, Umesh Mehra | romance film, family film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | Soviet Union, India |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | drama film, hood film | United Kingdom |
| Air Crew | Alexander Mitta | disaster film | Soviet Union |
| Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg | romance film, drama film, erotic thriller | United Kingdom |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | comedy film, biographical film | United States |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| The Watcher in the Woods | Vincent McEveety, John Hough | mystery film, horror film, ghost film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Electric Horseman | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| L'avare | Louis de Funès, Jean Girault | comedy film | France |
| ...And Justice for All | Norman Jewison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, trial film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Mad Monkey Kung Fu | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film, comedy film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Pani Mariya | Natalya Troshchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| The Seventh-Rank Sesame Seed-Sized Official | Xie Tian | musical film, comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| Right On, Man! | Tapio Suominen | teen film, drama film | Finland |
| The Bailiff of Greifensee | Wilfried Bolliger | drama film | Germany, Switzerland |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| Midnight Madness | Michael Nankin | teen film, comedy film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| O. K., Leave It to Me, Boss...! | Petr Schulhoff | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Robert Clouse | drama film, action film, crime film | United States, Hong Kong |
| The Rabbit Case | Jaromil Jireš | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film | United States |
| Solo Sunny | Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Konrad Wolf | drama film, slice of life, musical film | East Germany |
| A Deadly Secret | Mou Tun-fei | kung fu film | Hong Kong |
| A Summer in the Country | Roberto Girometti | comedy film, sex film | France, Italy |
| Aakrosh | Govind Nihalani | drama film | India |
| Amnesty | Valeri Ponomarev | comedy film | Soviet Union, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Cheech and Chong's Next Movie | Tommy Chong | comedy film | United States |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | political thriller film, fiction film, thriller film | Germany, United States |
| Fear (1980 film) | Rostyslav Synko | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Flygniva 450 | Torbjörn Axelman | drama film, thriller film | Sweden |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | Ingmar Bergman | drama film | Germany, Sweden |
| Growing Pains | Ze'ev Revach | teen film | Israel |
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | drama film | United States |
| Housata | Karel Smyczek | drama film | Czechoslovakia |
| If I Were the Boss... | Albert S. Mkrtchyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Inside Moves | Richard Donner | drama film | United States |
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | James Ivory | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Los Hijos de López | Enrique Dawi | comedy film | Argentina |
| Mirage Above the Gobi Desert | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Mstislav Keldysh | Gennady Raspopov | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Oh, God! Book II | Gilbert Cates | fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film | United States |
| Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later | Yuri Yegorov | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Petria's Wreath | Srđan Karanović | war film | Yugoslavia |
| Santa Esperansa | Sebastián Alarcón | drama film | Soviet Union, Chile |
| Schizoid | David Paulsen | horror film, slasher film | United States |
| Silent Witness | Anatoli Mokatsyan | — | — |
| Simon | Marshall Brickman | science fiction comedy | United States |
| Snow Kid | Lin Wenxiao | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Cowards | Avi Nesher | romance film | Israel |
| The Man on the Golden Horse | Vasily Zhuravlyov | cinematic fairy tale, musical film | Soviet Union |
| The Memory of Eva Ryker | Walter Grauman | — | United States |
| Urodziny młodego warszawiaka | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | war film | Poland |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Will You Go Out Tomorrow? | Kamara Kamalova | melodrama, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Zoom In: Rape Apartments | Naosuke Kurosawa | exploitation film, pink film, horror film, monster erotica, erotic film | Japan |