| Murattu Kaalai | S. P. Muthuraman | film laga | India |
| Night Accident | Venyamin Davydovich Dorman | film kejahatan | Uni Soviet |
| Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later | Yuri Yegorov | drama komedi | Uni Soviet |
| Punnami Naagu | Rajashekar | film horor | India |
| Ripe Strawberries | — | film komedi, film pendek | Amerika Serikat |
| Stir Crazy | Sidney Poitier | Film penjara | Amerika Serikat |
| Strannyy otpusk | Ihor Vietrov, Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | — | Uni Soviet |
| Thanassis, Tighten Your Belt Some More | Thodoros Maragos | film drama, film komedi | Yunani |
| The Cowards | Avi Nesher | film percintaan | Israel |
| The Falls | Peter Greenaway | Film fiksi ilmiah | Britania Raya |
| The Flight Starts from the Earth | Nerses Hovhannisyan | — | Uni Soviet |
| The Sword | Patrick Tam | film seni bela diri | Hong Kong |
| The Way to The Gold Medals | Junya Satō | film drama | Jepang |
| Three Years (film) | Dmitriy Dolinin, Stanislav Lyubshin | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | film drama, film musikal | Uni Soviet |
| Why Would I Lie? | Larry Peerce | drama komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Will You Go Out Tomorrow? | Kamara Kamalova | film anak-anak | Uni Soviet |
| 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 |