| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|
| 11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian | Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard | Heist, Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 20th Century Fox |
| 99 and 44/100% Dead | John Frankenheimer | Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Chuck Connors | Action, Crime, Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Abby | William Girdler | Carol Speed, Juanita Moore, Terry Carter | Blaxploitation, Horror | AIP |
| Act of Vengeance | Bob Kelljan | Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Lada St. Edmund | Crime | AIP |
| Airport 1975 | Jack Smight | Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson, Linda Blair, George Kennedy, Susan Clark, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy | Disaster | Universal. Airport sequel |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Curtin, Vic Tayback, Alfred Lutter, Jodie Foster | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Warner Bros. Oscar for Burstyn |
| Amazing Grace | Stan Lathan | Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash | Comedy | United Artists |
| The Arena | Steve Carver | Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Paul Muller (actor) | Gladiator, Action | New World |
| Bad Ronald | Buzz Kulik | Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Kim Hunter, Dabney Coleman | Horror, Thriller | Made-for-TV |
| Bank Shot | Gower Champion | George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke | Heist, Crime, Comedy | United Artists |
| The Bat People | Jerry Jameson | Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew, Michael Pataki | Horror | AIP |
| The Bears and I | Bernard McEveety | Patrick Wayne, Chief Dan George, Andrew Duggan | Drama | Disney |
| Benji | Joe Camp | Patsy Garrett, Christopher Connelly, Patsy Garrett, Peter Breck | Family | Independent. 1st of series |
| Beyond the Door | Ovidio G. Assonitis | Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia | Supernatural Horror | Independent |
| Big Bad Mama | Steve Carver | Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt | Sexploitation, Action, Crime | New World |
| Billy Two Hats | Ted Kotcheff | Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jack Warden | Western | United Artists |
| Black Belt Jones | Robert Clouse | Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Eric Laneuville | Blaxploitation, Martial Arts | Warner Bros. |
| Black Eye | Jack Arnold | Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves | Blaxploitation, Neo-Noir, Action | Warner Bros. |
| The Black Godfather | John Evans | Rod Perry, Don Chastain, Jimmy Witherspoon | Blaxploitation, Crime Drama | Independent |
| Black Samson | Charles Bail | Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Carol Speed | Blaxploitation, Action | Warner Bros. |
| Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras | Black Comedy, Western | Warner Bros. 3 Oscar nominations |
| Bootleggers | Charles B. Pierce | Paul Koslo, Jaclyn Smith, Slim Pickens | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Independent |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Helmut Dantine, Robert Webber, Emilio Fernandez, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson | Neo-Western | United Artists |
| Buster and Billie | Daniel Petrie | Jan-Michael Vincent, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James, Robert Englund, Joan Goodfellow | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama | Columbia |
| Busting | Peter Hyams | Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield | Crime, Comedy | United Artists |
| Caged Heat | Jonathan Demme | Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele | Prison, Action | New World |
| The California Kid | Richard T. Heffron | Martin Sheen | Action, Horror, Thriller | Made-for-TV |
| California Split | Robert Altman | Elliott Gould, George Segal, Ann Prentiss | Comedy, Drama | Columbia |
| A Case of Rape | Boris Sagal | Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronny Cox, William Daniels, Rosemary Murphy, Ken Swofford, Tom Selleck | Drama | Made-for-TV |
| The Castaway Cowboy | Vincent McEveety | James Garner, Vera Miles, Eric Shea, Robert Culp | Western, Comedy, Family | Disney |
| Catch My Soul | Patrick McGoohan | Richie Havens, Lance LeGault, Season Hubley | Musical | Cinerama |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Diane Ladd, John Hillerman, James Hong, Burt Young | Neo-Noir, Mystery, Drama | Paramount. 11 Oscar nominations |
| Chosen Survivors | Sutton Roley | Diana Muldaur, Bradford Dillman, Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Cord | Sci-Fi, Horror | Columbia |
| Claudine | John Berry | Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Cockfighter | Monte Hellman | Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr. | Drama | New World |
| Conrack | Martin Ritt | Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From Pat Conroy book |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall | Mystery, Thriller | Paramount. 3 Oscar nominations |
| Crazy Joe | Carlo Lizzani | Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Eli Wallach, Rip Torn | Crime, Drama | Columbia |
| The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder | Arthur Hiller | Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, Albert Salmi, George Marshall | Comedy, Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Cry Panic | James Goldstone | John Forsythe, Earl Holliman, Ralph Meeker, Norman Alden, Claudia McNeil, Anne Francis | Mystery, Thriller | Made-for-TV |
| Daisy Miller | Peter Bogdanovich | Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick | Drama | Paramount |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter | Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm, Andreijah "Dre" Pahich, Brian Narelle, Nick Castle | Sci-Fi, Comedy | Independent |
| Death Cruise | Ralph Senensky | Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Michael Constantine, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Celeste Holm, Tom Bosley, Cesare Danova | Mystery | Made-for-TV |
| The Death Squad | Harry Falk | Robert Forster, Michelle Philips, Stephen Young, Kenneth Tobey, Melvyn Douglas, Dennis Patrick, Claude Akins, Mark Goddard | Crime, Drama | Made-for-TV |
| Death Wish | Michael Winner | Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Hope Lange, Stuart Margolin | Vigilante, Action, Thriller | Paramount. 1st of series |
| Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | John Hough | Susan George, Peter Fonda, Vic Morrow | Road, Action, Crime, Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Dirty O'Neil | Lewis Teague | Morgan Paull, Art Metrano, Pat Anderson | Comedy, Thriller | AIP |
| The Dove | Charles Jarrott | Joseph Bottoms, Dabney Coleman, Deborah Raffin | Biography, Drama | Paramount |
| Dynamite Brothers | Al Adamson | Timothy Brown, Alan Tang, Aldo Ray | Blaxploitation, Martial Arts | Independent |
| Earthquake | Mark Robson | Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Richard Roundtree, George Kennedy, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Marjoe Gortner, Victoria Principal | Disaster | Universal. 4 Oscar nominations |
| The Education of Sonny Carson | Michael Campus | Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin | Blaxploitation, Drama | Paramount |
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm | William Dennis Hunt, John Hoyt, Candy Samples | Sex Comedy | Independent |
| For Pete's Sake | Peter Yates | Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons | Screwball Comedy | Columbia |
| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Terry Carter | Blaxploitation, Crime | AIP |
| Freebie and the Bean | Richard Rush | Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit | Buddy Cop, Black Comedy, Action, Crime | Warner Bros. |
| The Front Page | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett | Black Comedy, Drama | Universal; From Ben Hecht play; Remake of 1931 film |
| The Gambler | Karel Reisz | James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino | Crime, Drama | Paramount. Remade in 2014 |
| 'Gator Bait | Beverly Sebastion | Claudia Jennings, Bill Thurman | Thriller | Independent |
| Ginger in the Morning | Gordon Wiles | Fred Ward, Sissy Spacek, Monte Markham | Romance | Independent |
| The Girl from Petrovka | Robert Ellis Miller | Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins | Comedy, Drama | Universal |
| The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Lee Strasberg, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, G. D. Spradlin, Bruno Kirby, Michael V. Gazzo, Richard Bright, Joe Spinell, Abe Vigoda, Amerigo Tot, Troy Donahue, Danny Aiello, James Caan | Crime Drama | Paramount. Sequel; won 6 Oscars |
| Golden Needles | Robert Clouse | Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Ashley, Ann Sothern, Jim Kelly, Burgess Meredith | Action, Adventure | AIP |
| Gone in 60 Seconds | H. B. Halicki | H. B. Halicki, Gary Bettenhausen, Parnelli Jones | Action | Independent |
| The Gravy Train | Jack Starrett | Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder, Frederic Forrest | Crime, Comedy, Drama | Columbia |
| The Great Gatsby | Jack Clayton | Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Lois Chiles | Romance, Drama | Paramount. Based on the book |
| The Groove Tube | Ken Shapiro | Chevy Chase, Richard Belzer, Jennifer Welles | Comedy | Independent |
| Hangup | Henry Hathaway | William Elliott, Cliff Potts, Marki Bey | Action | Warner Bros. |
| Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky | Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman | Road, Comedy, Drama | 20th Century Fox. Oscar for Carney |
| Heatwave! | Jerry Jameson | Ben Murphy, Bonnie Bedelia, David Huddleston, Lew Ayres, Dana Elcar | Disaster | Made-for-TV |
| Herbie Rides Again | Robert Stevenson | Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, Keenan Wynn | Comedy, Family | Disney. The Love Bug sequel |
| Homebodies | Larry Yust | Peter Brocco, Frances Fuller, William Hansen | Horror, Comedy | Embassy |
| The House on Skull Mountain | Ron Honthaner | Victor French, Janee Michelle, Mike Evans | Horror | 20th Century Fox |
| How to Seduce a Woman | Charles Martin | Angel Tompkins, Alexandra Hay, Judith McConnell | Comedy | Cinerama |
| Huckleberry Finn | J. Lee Thompson | Jeff East, Paul Winfield, David Wayne, Arthur O'Connell, Harvey Korman | Musical | United Artists. From Mark Twain book |
| Hurricane | Jerry Jameson | Larry Hagman, Martin Milner, Jessica Walter, Barry Sullivan, Michael Learned, Frank Sutton, Will Geer, Lonny Chapman | Disaster | Made-for-TV |
| The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | David Hartman, Mako | Adventure | Disney |
| It's Alive | Larry Cohen | John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Guy Stockwell | Sci-Fi, Horror | Warner Bros. |
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Freddie Jones | Crime, Suspense | United Artists |
| Killdozer! | Jerry London | Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, Robert Urich | Sci-Fi, Horror | Made-for-TV |
| The Klansman | Terence Young | Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Linda Evans, O. J. Simpson | Drama | Paramount |
| Knife for the Ladies | Larry G. Spangler | Jack Elam, Ruth Roman, Gene Evans | Western, Horror | Independent |
| Law and Disorder | Ivan Passer | Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Karen Black | Crime, Comedy, Drama | Columbia |
| The Legend of Earl Durand | John D. Patterson | Peter Haskell, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn | Western | Independent |
| Lenny | Bob Fosse | Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner | Biography, Drama | United Artists. 6 Oscar nominations |
| The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Richard Friedenberg | Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle | Adventure | Independent. Became TV series |
| The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Musical | Paramount |
| The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter | Prison, Sports, Comedy | Paramount. Remade in 2005 |
| The Lords of Flatbush | Martin Davidson, Stephen F. Verona | Perry King, Henry Winkler, Sylvester Stallone, Susan Blakely | Drama | Columbia |
| Lost in the Stars | Daniel Mann | Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Clifton Davis | Drama | AFT |
| Lovin' Molly | Sidney Lumet | Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges | Drama | Columbia |
| Macon County Line | Richard Compton | Max Baer, Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters | Crime Drama | AIP. |
| Mama's Dirty Girls | John Hayes | Gloria Grahame, Paul Lambert, Candice Rialson, Sondra Currie | Thriller | Independent |
| Mame | Gene Saks | Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Jane Connell, Don Porter | Musical | Based on the musical |
| Man on a Swing | Frank Perry | Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Elizabeth Wilson | Thriller | Paramount |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams | Spy, Action | United Artists. Sequel to Live and Let Die |
| McQ | John Sturges | John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Al Lettieri | Neo-Noir, Action, Crime | Warner Bros. |
| The Midnight Man | Burt Lancaster | Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell | Neo-Noir, Mystery | Universal |
| The Missiles of October | Anthony Page | William Devane, Martin Sheen, John Dehner, Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Lerner, James Hong, Howard da Silva, Ralph Bellamy, Andrew Duggan, Clifford David, Dana Elcar, Harris Yulin, Larry Gates, Dennis Patrick, John Randolph, James T. Callahan, Albert Paulsen, William Prince, Keene Curtis | Docudrama | Made-for-TV |
| Mixed Company | Melville Shavelson | Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Lisa Gerritsen | Comedy, Drama | United Artists |
| The Morning After | Richard T. Heffron | Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter, Linda Lavin | Drama | Made-for-TV; Remake of 1986 film |
| Mr. Majestyk | Richard Fleischer | Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Paul Koslo | Action | United Artists |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark | Mystery | Paramount. won 3 BAFTA awards |
| Newman's Law | Richard T. Heffron | George Peppard, Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche | Crime | Universal |
| The Nickel Ride | Robert Mulligan | Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, Bo Hopkins, John Hillerman | Neo-Noir, Crime | 20th Century Fox |
| Nightmare Circus | Alan Rudolph | Andrew Prine | Horror | |
| Nightmare Honeymoon | Elliot Silverstein | Dack Rambo, John Beck, Roy Jenson | Crime, Thriller | MGM |
| Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | Robert Taylor | Skip Hinnant | Adult Animation, Black Comedy, Anthology | sequel to Fritz the Cat |
| Northeast of Seoul | David Lowell Rich | Anita Ekberg, John Ireland, Victor Buono | Action, Thriller | Cannon |
| Oliver Twist | Hal Sutherland | Josh Albee, Jane Webb, Les Tremayne | Animated | Warner Bros. |
| Once Upon a Scoundrel | George Schaefer | Zero Mostel, Katy Jurado, Pancho Córdova | Comedy | Independent |
| Open Season | Peter Collinson | Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch | Thriller | Columbia |
| Our Time | Peter Hyams | Pamela Sue Martin, Parker Stevenson, Debralee Scott | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels | Political Thriller | Paramount |
| The Phantom of Hollywood | Gene Levitt | Skye Aubrey, Jack Cassidy, Jackie Coogan, Broderick Crawford, Peter Haskell, John Ireland, Peter Lawford | Horror, Thriller | Made-for-TV; MGM Television |
| Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, William Finley | Rock Musical, Horror, Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Phase IV | Saul Bass | Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick | Science Fiction, Horror | Paramount |
| The Photographer | William Byron Hillman | Michael Callan, Barbara Nichols, Harold J. Stone, Edward Andrews, Jed Allan | Thriller | Embassy |
| Planet Earth | Marc Daniels | John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary, Diana Muldaur | Science Fiction | Made for TV |
| Policewomen | Lee Frost | Sondra Currie, Tony Young, Jean Bell | Action | Crown International |
| The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann | Radley Metzger | Eric Edwards, Georgina Spelvin, Jamie Gillis | Adult | Hudson Valley Films |
| Report to the Commissioner | Milton Katselas | Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely | Crime Drama | United Artists |
| Rhinoceros | Tom O'Horgan | Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black | Comedy | AFT |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner | Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou | Spy, Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| The Savage Is Loose | George C. Scott | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Lee Montgomery | Drama | Independent |
| Savage Sisters | Eddie Romero | Gloria Hendry, John Ashley, Cheri Caffaro | Prison, Action | AIP |
| Score | Radley Metzger | Casey Donovan, Claire Wilbur, Lynn Lowry | Adult | |
| Seizure | Oliver Stone | Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Herve Villechaize | Horror | Cinerama Stone debut |
| Shanks | William Castle | Philippe Clay, Marcel Marceau | Horror | |
| The Single Girls | Beverly Sebastian | Claudia Jennings, Greg Mullavy, Joan Prather | Comedy | Independent |
| The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe | Mohy Quandour | Robert Walker Jr., Cesar Romero, Tom Drake | Horror | Cinerama |
| The Spikes Gang | Richard Fleischer | Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard | Western | United Artists |
| The Stranger Within | Lee Philips | Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Joyce Van Patten, Nehemiah Persoff, David Doyle | Sci-Fi, Horror | Made-for-TV |
| Sugar Hill | Paul Maslansky | Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Richard Lawson | Blaxploitation, Horror, Zombie | AIP |
| The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson | Crime Drama | Universal |
| Summer School Teachers | Barbara Peeters | Candice Rialson, Pat Anderson, Grainger Hines | Thriller | New World |
| The Super Cops | Gordon Parks | Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | MGM |
| The Swinging Cheerleaders | Jack Hill | Rainbeaux Smith, Colleen Camp, Rosanne Katon | Comedy, Drama | Independent |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Jerry Stiller | Crime Drama | United Artists. Remade in 2009 |
| The Tamarind Seed | Blake Edwards | Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle | Spy, Romance, Drama, Thriller | Embassy |
| The Teacher | Hickmet Avedis | Angel Tompkins, Jay North, Marlene Schmidt | Erotic Thriller | Crown International |
| The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | George Segal, Joan Hackett, Jill Clayburgh | Science Fiction, Horror | Warner Bros. |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal | Horror | Independent. 1st in series |
| That's Entertainment! | Jack Haley Jr. | Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Bing Crosby | Documentary, Musical | MGM; 2 sequels |
| Thieves Like Us | Robert Altman | Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Louise Fletcher | Crime, Drama | United Artists |
| Thomasine & Bushrod | Gordon Parks Jr. | Max Julien, Vonetta McGee George Murdock | Western | Columbia |
| Three the Hard Way | Gordon Parks Jr. | Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jim Brown | Blaxploitation, Action | Allied Artists |
| Thunder County | Chris Robinson | Mickey Rooney, Ted Cassidy, Carol Locatell | Crime | Independent |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis | Crime, Comedy, Drama | United Artists |
| TNT Jackson | Cirio H. Santiago | Jeanne Bell, Chiquito, Stan Shaw | Blaxploitation, Action | New World |
| The Towering Inferno | John Guillermin | Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, O. J. Simpson, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Robert Vaughn | Disaster | Warner Bros. Won 3 Oscars |
| The Treasure of Jamaica Reef | Virginia L. Stone | Stephen Boyd, David Ladd, Roosevelt Grier, Cheryl Ladd, Chuck Woolery | Action | Independent |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Joseph Hardy | Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, James Olson | Drama | Made-for-TV; Remake of 1945 film |
| The Trial of Billy Jack | Tom Laughlin | Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Riley Hill (actor) | Western, Action, Drama | Warner Bros. Sequel to Billy Jack |
| Truck Stop Women | Mark L. Lester | Claudia Jennings, Lieux Dressler, Dennis Fimple | Action | Independent |
| Truck Turner | Jonathan Kaplan | Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Annazette Chase | Blaxploitation, Action | AIP |
| The Ultimate Thrill | Robert Butler | Barry Brown, Britt Ekland | Thriller | Independent |
| Uptown Saturday Night | Sidney Poitier | Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor | Action, Crime, Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| W | Richard Quine | Twiggy, John Vernon, Dirk Benedict, Eugene Roche | Psychological Thriller, Mystery | Cinerama |
| Welcome to Arrow Beach | Laurence Harvey | Laurence Harvey, Joanna Pettet, Meg Foster | Horror | Warner Bros. |
| When the North Wind Blows | Stewart Raffill | Henry Brandon, Dan Haggerty | Drama | |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton, Rance Howard | Drama, Family | United Artists |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Norman Tokar | James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Lonny Chapman, Jack Ging | Drama, Family | Crown |
| The White Dawn | Philip Kaufman | Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr. | Adventure, Drama | Paramount |
| Willie Dynamite | Gilbert Moses | Roscoe Orman, Eddie Rivers, Diana Sands | Blaxploitation, Crime | Universal |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper | Drama | Independent. Golden Globe for Rowlands |
| The Working Girls | Stephanie Rothman | Sarah Kennedy, Mary Beth Hughes, Cassandra Peterson | Sexploitation, Comedy | Independent |
| The Yakuza | Sydney Pollack | Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Voices of Shirley Booth, Mickey Rooney | Animation | Made-for-TV |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Gene Hackman | Horror, Comedy | 20th Century Fox. 5 Saturn Awards |
| Zandy's Bride | Jan Troell | Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Susan Tyrrell | Western | Warner Bros |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman | Science Fantasy | 20th Century Fox |
