| 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 |
| Invisible Man: Rape! | Isao Hayashi | Film pink | Jepang |
| Pod Jezevci skalou | Václav Gajer | film anak-anak | Cekoslowakia |
| The Orlovs | Mark Donskoy | — | Uni Soviet |
| Just like Home | Márta Mészáros | film drama | Hungaria |
| Halloween | John Carpenter | film drama kriminal, film remaja, film misteri, film drama, film kejahatan menegangkan, film horor, film cerita seru, Film independen, Film jagal, film kejahatan | Amerika Serikat |
| Death on the Nile | John Guillermin | film misteri, film cerita seru, film kejahatan | Britania Raya, Mesir |
| Fäbodjäntan | Joseph W. Sarno | film porno | Swedia |
| Despair | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | film drama | Prancis, Jerman |
| Pøbel | Hans Lindgren | film drama | Norwegia |
| Det andre skiftet | Lasse Glomm | film drama | Norwegia |
| Shadows of a Hot Summer | František Vláčil | film drama, film perang | Cekoslowakia |
| The Scarlet Flower | Irina Povolotskaya | film percintaan, film fantasi, film anak-anak | Uni Soviet |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | film kejahatan | Prancis |
| Five Deadly Venoms | Chang Cheh | film seni bela diri, film laga, film cerita seru, film petualangan | Hong Kong |
| Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun | Jesús Franco | film drama, film horor, film religi | Jerman, Swiss |
| Interiors | Woody Allen | film percintaan, film drama | Amerika Serikat |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Michael Schultz | film drama, film petualangan, film musikal | Amerika Serikat |
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | film komedi | Swedia, Australia |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | film horor, film petualangan, Film fiksi ilmiah, Film bencana | Amerika Serikat |
| Yuga Purushudu | Kovelamudi Bapayya | film laga | India |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | film fantasi, film komedi romantis | Amerika Serikat |
| Damnation Alley (film) | Jack Smight | film horor, Film fiksi ilmiah, Film bencana | Amerika Serikat |
| Marriage | Vitali Melnikov | film komedi | Uni Soviet |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | film drama, film horor | Britania Raya, Australia |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | film drama | Amerika Serikat |