| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Alice or the Last Escapade | Claude Chabrol | Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Jean Carmet | Drama | |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer | Drama | West German–French co-production |
| Animal | Claude Zidi | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Charles Gerard | Comedy | |
| Another Man, Another Chance | Claude Lelouch | James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster | Drama | French–American co-production |
| Arrête ton char... bidasse! | Michel Gérard | Darry Cowl, Pierre Tornade, Robert Castel, Stéphane Hillel | Comedy | |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Liliana Cavani | Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell | Drama | Italian–French–West German co-production |
| Bilitis | David Hamilton | Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau | Romance, adult | |
| The Blue Ferns | Françoise Sagan | Françoise Fabian, Gilles Ségal, Jean-Marc Bory | Drama | |
| Cathy's Curse | Eddy Matalon | Alan Scarfe, Beverley Murray, Hubert Noel | Horror | Canadian–French co-production |
| Colloque de chiens | Raúl Ruiz | Eva Simonet, Hugo Santiago, Michel Such | Avant-garde | |
| Comme la lune | Joël Séria | Jean-Pierre Marielle, Sophie Daumier | Comedy drama | |
| Death of a Corrupt Man | Georges Lautner | Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran | Thriller, crime | |
| The Devil Probably | Robert Bresson | Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Laetita Carcano | Drama | |
| The French Woman | Just Jaeckin | Françoise Fabian, Dayle Haddon, Murray Head | Adult | |
| Gloria | Claude Autant-Lara | Nicole Maurey, Maurice Biraud, Andrée Tainsy | Drama | |
| Goodbye Emmanuelle | François Leterrier | Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Alexandra Stewart | Adult | |
| Helga, la louve de Spilberg | Alain Payet | Malisa Longo | | |
| Julie pot de colle | Philippe de Broca | Marlène Jobert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Alexandra Stewart | Comedy | |
| L'Apprenti salaud | Michel Deville | Robert Lamoureux, Christine Dejoux | Crime | |
| La Nuit, tous les chats sont gris | Gerard Zingg | Gérard Depardieu, Robert Stephens, Laura Betti | Comedy-drama | |
| The Lacemaker | Claude Goretta | Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti | Drama | French–Swiss co–production |
| Le Gang | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Nicole Calfan, Roland Bertin | Crime | |
| Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff | Yves Boisset | Patrick Dewaere, Aurore Clément | Crime, Drama | |
| The Lorry | Marguerite Duras | Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu | Avant-garde | |
| Ma-ma | Elisabeta Bostan | Lyudmila Gurchenko, Mikhail Boyarsky | Children's, fantasy, musical | Romanian–Soviet–French co-production |
| The Man Who Loved Women | François Truffaut | Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey | Comedy drama | |
| Madame Rosa | Moshé Mizrahi | Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin, Sammy Ben Youb | Drama | |
| The Model Couple | William Klein | André Dussollier, Anémone, Zouc | Comedy | |
| One Sings, the Other Doesn't | Agnès Varda | Valérie Mairesse, Ali Raffi, Thérèse Liotard | Drama | |
| Parisian Life | Christian-Jaque | Jacques Jouanneau, Dany Saval, Jacques Dynam | Music | |
| A Spiral of Mist | Eriprando Visconti | Claude Jade, Marc Porel, Carole Chauvet | Drama | |
| Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! | Yves Robert | Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur | | |
| Providence | Alain Resnais | John Gielgud, Ellen Burstyn, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | French–Swiss co-production |
| The Purple Taxi | Yves Boisset | Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Peter Ustinov, Fred Astaire | Drama | French–Irish–Italian co-production |
| Shadow of the Castles | Daniel Duval | Philippe Léotard | Drama | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Solemn Communion | Gérard Blain | Véronique Silver, Marcel Dalio | Comedy drama | Entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival |
| Spoiled Children | Bertrand Tavernier | Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont | Drama | |
| That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis Buñuel | Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina | Comedy | |
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