| One True Love | Mark Osepyan | Uni Soviet |
| Penitentiary II | Jamaa Fanaka | Amerika Serikat |
| Sandstorm | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Aljazair |
| Suyunchi | Melis Abzalov | Uni Soviet |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Clive Donner | Britania Raya |
| The Song of the Old Days | Albert Mkrtchyan | Uni Soviet |
| True of Lieutenant Klimov | Oleg Dashkevich | Uni Soviet |
| Absence of Malice | Sydney Pollack | Amerika Serikat |
| Alexander The Small | Vladimir Fokin | Uni Soviet, Jerman Timur |
| Coup de Torchon | Bertrand Tavernier | Prancis |
| Facts of the Past Day | Vladimir Basov | Uni Soviet |
| Help Me Dream | Pupi Avati | Italia |
| King of the Mountain | Noel Nosseck | Amerika Serikat |
| Lovespell | Tom Donovan | Amerika Serikat |
| Lu man man | Cai Jiwei, Gu Dexian | Tiongkok |
| Neighbours | Zheng Dongtian | Tiongkok |
| Old Letters | Anatolii Ivanov | Uni Soviet |
| Story of an Unknown Man | Vytautas Žalakevičius | Uni Soviet |
| The Drive to Win | Zhang Nuanxin | Tiongkok |
| The Melody Haunts My Memory | Rajko Grlić | Yugoslavia |
| The Smacking Sea | Arvo Kruusement | Uni Soviet, Estonia |
| Varavu Nalla Uravu | Visu | India |
| Vysokyy pereval | Volodymyr Denysenko | Uni Soviet |
| Zapach psiej siersci | Jan Batory | Polandia |
| A Week's Vacation | Bertrand Tavernier | Prancis |
| American Pop | Ralph Bakshi | Amerika Serikat |
| Aziza | Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Tunisia |
| Carny | Robert Kaylor | Amerika Serikat |
| Dealing with the Devil | Lin Lan | Tiongkok |
| Dulsineya Tobosskaya | Svetlana Druzhinina | Uni Soviet |
| Flag of Iron | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong |
| Fontamara | Carlo Lizzani | Italia |
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | James Ivory | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Kontrakt | Krzysztof Zanussi | Polandia |
| Thanassis, Tighten Your Belt Some More | Thodoros Maragos | Yunani |
| The Way to The Gold Medals | Junya Satō | Jepang |
| Three Years (film) | Dmitriy Dolinin, Stanislav Lyubshin | Uni Soviet |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | Uni Soviet |
| Aria for an Athlete | Filip Bajon | Polandia |
| Border dog Alyi | Yuly Fayt | Uni Soviet |
| Camera Buff | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Polandia |
| De försvunna | Sergio Castilla | Kuba, Swedia |
| Early Cranes | Bolotbek Shamshiyev | Uni Soviet |
| Father and Son (1979 film) | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy, Valery Uskov | Uni Soviet |
| Interrogation | Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, Rasim Ojagov | Republik Sosialis Soviet Azerbaijan, Uni Soviet |
| Kaala Patthar | Yash Chopra | India |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | India |
| Mir v tryoh izmereniyah | Yuliya Solntseva | Uni Soviet |