| Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti | Ralf Långbacka | film drama, film komedi | Finlandia, Swedia |
| Killer Fish | Antonio Margheriti | film horor, Film fiksi ilmiah, Film perampokan | Prancis, Brasil, Italia |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | film drama, Film biografi, film musikal | Amerika Serikat |
| The Widow of Montiel | Miguel Littín | film drama | Kuba, Venezuela, Kolombia, Meksiko |
| Na pytlácké stezce | Václav Gajer | film keluarga, film anak-anak, film petualangan | Cekoslowakia |
| Kronprinsen | Pål Bang-Hansen | film drama | Norwegia |
| Balamut | Vladimir Rogovoy | film remaja, drama komedi | Uni Soviet |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | film beranjak dewasa, film drama | Kanada |
| More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton | film beranjak dewasa, film remaja, film drama, film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Waga seishun no eleven | Yasuo Furuhata | film drama | Jepang |
| Tenshi no Harawata | — | Film eksploitasi, Film pink | Jepang |
| The Wanderers | Philip Kaufman | film beranjak dewasa, film remaja, film drama | Amerika Serikat |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | film beranjak dewasa, film remaja | Kanada |
| The Main Event | Howard Zieff | film komedi romantis | Amerika Serikat |
| The Cheap Detective | Robert Moore | film komedi, film cerita seru, Film parodi, film kejahatan | Amerika Serikat |
| Brácha za vsechny penize | Stanislav Strnad | film komedi | Cekoslowakia |
| Hardcore | Paul Schrader | film drama, film kejahatan | Amerika Serikat |
| Stalker (film 1979) | Andrei Tarkovsky | Art film, film drama, Film fiksi ilmiah | Uni Soviet |
| Siberiade | Andrei Konchalovsky | film percintaan, film drama, film perang | Uni Soviet |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | drama perang, film drama, film laga, film horor, film cerita seru, film petualangan, film perang, film kolosal | Amerika Serikat |
| A Wedding (film 1978) | Robert Altman | film drama, film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Cop or Hood | Georges Lautner | film misteri, film komedi, film laga, film kejahatan | Prancis, Italia |
| Young Wife | Leonid Menaker | film percintaan, film drama | Uni Soviet |
| The Woman who Sings | Aleksandr Orlov | film musikal | Uni Soviet |
| Repmånad | Peter Hald, Lasse Åberg | film komedi | Swedia |
| Straight Time | Ulu Grosbard | film drama, film kejahatan | Amerika Serikat |
| The North Avenue Irregulars | Bruce Bilson | film misteri | Amerika Serikat |
| Angi Vera | Pál Gábor | film drama | Hungaria |
| Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | film laga, film petualangan, film perang | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Blood of the Railroad Workers | Erik Solbakken | film percintaan, film drama | Norwegia |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | film percintaan, film drama | Prancis |
| Troubled Laughter | Yimin Deng, Yanjin Yang | film drama | Tiongkok |
| Akh, Vodevil, Vodevil... | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich | film komedi | Uni Soviet |
| An Ordinary Miracle | Mark Zakharov | Film komedi romantis, film fantasi, film musikal, drama komedi, fantasi romantis | Uni Soviet |
| Aria for an Athlete | Filip Bajon | film drama | Polandia |
| Blue Carbuncle | Nikolay Lukyanov | film musikal | Uni Soviet |
| Border dog Alyi | Yuly Fayt | film drama, film petualangan | Uni Soviet |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey | film anak-anak, Film fiksi ilmiah | Amerika Serikat |
| Camera Buff | Krzysztof Kieślowski | film drama | Polandia |
| Cinderella | Ivan Aksenchuk | — | Uni Soviet |
| Continuum | Ian Ball | — | Kanada |
| De försvunna | Sergio Castilla | film drama | Kuba, Swedia |
| Early Cranes | Bolotbek Shamshiyev | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| El Rey de los exhortos | Hugo Sofovich | film komedi | Argentina |
| Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | Steve Carver | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Father and Son (1979 film) | Vladimir Krasnopolskiy, Valery Uskov | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| Graftio Engineer | Gennady Kazansky | Film biografi | Uni Soviet |
| Grandma | Héctor Olivera | drama komedi | Argentina |
| Hanging by a Thread | Georg Fenady | Film bencana | Amerika Serikat |
| Interrogation | Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, Rasim Ojagov | film misteri, film drama | Republik Sosialis Soviet Azerbaijan, Uni Soviet |
| Kaala Patthar | Yash Chopra | film drama, film laga, Film bencana | India |
| Kid with the Golden Arm | Chang Cheh | film seni bela diri | Hong Kong |
| Knockabout | Sammo Hung | film seni bela diri, film laga | Hong Kong |
| La carpa del amor | Julio Porter | film komedi, film musikal | Argentina |
| Live Long | Frunze Dovlatyan | — | Uni Soviet |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | film drama | India |
| Mir v tryoh izmereniyah | Yuliya Solntseva | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| Morning Star | Jamyanguyn Buntar | — | Republik Rakyat Mongolia |
| Moy pervyy drug | Yakov Bazelyan | film keluarga | Uni Soviet |
| Nahla | — | film drama | Aljazair |
| Oh! What a Family | Wang Haowei | film komedi | Tiongkok |
| Old-fashioned Tango | Alexander Belinsky, Dmitry Bryantsev | film komedi, film musikal | Uni Soviet |
| Osobykh primet net | Anatoly Bobrovsky | film drama | Uni Soviet, Republik Rakyat Polandia |
| Placówka | Zygmunt Skonieczny | film drama, potongan kehidupan | Polandia |
| Scavenger Hunt | Michael Schultz | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Scoring | Alessandro De Gaetano | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Squeeze Play! | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Svartere enn natten | Svend Wam | film drama | Norwegia |
| Série noire | Alain Corneau | film drama, neo-noir, film kejahatan | Prancis |
| Tailcoat for shalopaya | Eldor Urazbayev | film komedi | Uni Soviet |
| Take Me With You | Boris Rytsarev | — | Uni Soviet |
| Target | Guido Zurli | — | Italia, Turki |
| Tess | Roman Polański | film drama | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | film olahraga, film keluarga, film anak-anak, film petualangan | Amerika Serikat |
| The Brothers | Hua Shan | film drama, film laga, film kejahatan | Hong Kong |
| The House of Hanging | Kon Ichikawa | — | Jepang |
| The Master of Kõrboja | Leida Laius | — | Estonia |
| The Vinchel Affair | Avraham Heffner | film drama | Israel |
| Thisai Maariya Paravaigal | S. Jegatheesan | film percintaan, film drama | India |
| Travel to another city | Viktor Tregubovich | — | Uni Soviet |
| Ty pomnish? | Oleg Nikolayevsky | film drama, film perang | Uni Soviet |
| Vizhu tsel | Suren Shakhbazyan | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| Vlad Țepeș | Doru Năstase | — | Rumania |
| When you are twelve years old | Kanymbek-Kano Kasymbekov | film anak-anak | Uni Soviet |
| With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | Lorraine Gray | Film dokumenter | Amerika Serikat |
| With Faith and Truth | Andrei Smirnov | film drama | Uni Soviet |