| Drum | Steve Carver | drama film, action film, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film | United States |
| Masquerade | Boštjan Hladnik | drama film, erotic film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Yuvaraju | Dasari Narayana Rao | drama film | India |
| Premonition of Love | Tofik Shakhverdiyev | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Best Friends | Norman Jewison | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Honkytonk Man | Clint Eastwood | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | drama film, family film, children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Incident at Map Grid 36-80 | Mikhail Tumanishvili | action film, thriller film | Soviet Union |
| Napasta | Alexa Visarion | drama film | Romania |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng | — | United States |
| Mr. Ricco | Paul Bogart | drama film | United States |
| Lusty Discipline in Uniform | Mamoru Watanabe | pink film | Japan |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film | United States |
| Teheran 43 | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | spy film, thriller film, war film, crime film | France, Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Invincible Shaolin | Chang Cheh | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Red Bells | Sergei Bondarchuk | drama film, adventure film | Soviet Union, Italy, Mexico |
| Jönssonligan & Dynamit-Harry | Mikael Ekman | crime comedy film | Sweden |
| Stove Builders | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Krypskyttere | Hans Otto Nicolayssen | drama film | Norway |
| Arabella, Daughter of a Pirate | Toomas Vohu, Peeter Simm, Ly Pulk | pirate film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Private Life | Yuli Raizman | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | mystery film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Do not Panic, Major Kardos | Sándor Szőnyi G., István Bujtor | comedy film | Hungary |
| Shaolin Wooden Men | Chi-Hwa Chen | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Tempest | Paul Mazursky | romance film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| The Imperial Japanese Empire | Toshio Masuda | war film | Japan |
| The Train Has Stopped | Vadim Abdrashitov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Night Shift | Ron Howard | comedy film | United States |
| Tex | Tim Hunter | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film | United States |
| Głosy | Janusz Kijowski | — | Poland |
| The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | fantasy film, adventure film, dark fantasy | United States |
| The Sex Machine | Pasquale Festa Campanile | comedy film, science fiction film, erotic film | Italy |
| Grease 2 | Patricia Birch | teen film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Zelená vlna | Václav Vorlíček | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Parsifal | Bernard Sobel, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | drama film, medieval film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Bu gu cui chun | Jia Shihong | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United States |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | John Badham | drama film | United States |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | drama film, historical film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Front in the Rear of the Enemy | Igor Gostev | drama film, historical film, partisan film, war film | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany, Czechoslovakia |
| An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The Jericho Mile | — | drama film | United States |
| Dragon Lord | Jackie Chan | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | drama film | Spain |
| Swept Away | Lina Wertmüller | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| Porky's | Bob Clark | coming-of-age film, teen film, comedy film | Canada, United States |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | time-travel film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, steampunk film | United Kingdom |
| Galawgaw | Ishmael Bernal | comedy film | Philippines |
| A Hot Summer Night | Shireen Strooker, Frans Weisz | comedy film | Netherlands |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | romance film, drama television series, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United States |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show | United States |
| All Fired Up | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | comedy film | France |
| Along Unknown Paths | Mikhail Yuzovsky | fantasy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Assol | Boris Stepantsev | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| At Another People's Holiday | Vladimir Laptev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Barbarosa | Fred Schepisi | Western film | United States |
| Better Late Than Never | Bryan Forbes | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Cat vs. Rat | Lau Kar-leung | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Coming Soon | John Landis | documentary film | United States |
| Curse of the Cannibal Confederates | Tony Malanowski | horror film | United States |
| Devata | K. Raghavendra Rao | drama film | India |
| Dykhanie grozy | Viktor Turov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Evləri köndələn yar | Tariyel Vəliyev, Ramiz Hasanoglu | comedy film, musical film | Azerbaijan |
| Fei lai de xian he | Chen Jialin | romantic drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Find and neutralize | Georgy Kuznetsov | action film, detective film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Flights in Dreams and Reality | Roman Balayan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Giocare d'azzardo | Cinzia TH Torrini | drama film | Italy |
| Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: Vostochnyy rubezh | Boris Stepanov | war film | Soviet Union |
| Half a Life | Romain Goupil | documentary film | France |
| Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Tommy Lee Wallace | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Human Lanterns | Sun Chung | horror film | Hong Kong |
| I Don't Want to Be an Adult | Yuri Chulyukin | comedy film, children's film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Ivan | Vitali Dudin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Klippet | Jan Halldoff | crime film | Sweden |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film | France |
| Larose, Pierrot and Luce | Claude Gagnon | fiction film, drama film | Canada, Japan |
| Living Rainbow | Natalya Bondarchuk | — | Soviet Union |
| Love and Money | James Toback | drama film | United States |
| Married Bachelor | Vladimir Rogovoy | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | Bonnie Sherr Klein | documentary film | Canada |
| Once Upon a Dog | Eduard Nazarov | comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Parusa moyego detstva | Leanid Martynyuk | — | Soviet Union |
| Personal Best | Robert Towne | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Piratensender Powerplay | Sigi Rothemund | comedy film | Germany |
| Pokkiri Raja | S. P. Muthuraman | — | India |
| Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, ghost film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film | United States |
| Purple Haze | David Burton Morris | — | United States |
| Puthukavithai | S. P. Muthuraman | romance film | India |
| Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Road Inspector | Eldor Urazbayev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Semero soldatikov | Eduard Bocharov | family film | Soviet Union |
| Servantes iz Malog Mista | Daniel Marušić | comedy film | Yugoslavia |
| Simply Awful! | Aleksandr Polynnikov | comedy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Sorceress | Jack Hill | sword and sorcery film, action film, adventure film | United States, Mexico |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Taran | Gunārs Cilinskis | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Herdsman | Xie Jin | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| The Song of the Old Days | Albert Mkrtchyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Things Are Tough All Over | Thomas K. Avildsen | comedy film, road movie | United States |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | action film, horror film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film | Australia |
| Vot takiye chudesa | Yefim Galperin | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| We of the Never Never | Igor Auzins | — | Australia |