| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| À toute allure | Robert Kramer | Bernard Ballet | Drama | |
| All Night Long | Chantal Akerman | Angelo Abazoglou, Natalie Akerman, Michele Blondeel | Drama | French–Belgian co-production |
| The Angel | Patrick Bokanowski | Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture | Drama | |
| Antonieta | Carlos Saura | Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio Tarso | Drama | French–Mexican–Spanish co-production |
| Aphrodite | Robert Fuest | Horst Buchholz, Valérie Kaprisky, Catherine Jourdan | Adult | |
| A Thousand Billion Dollars | Henri Verneuil | Patrick Dewaere, Mel Ferrer, Michel Auclair, Caroline Cellier, Charles Denner, Anny Duperey, Jeanne Moreau | Crime | |
| Espion, lève-toi | Yves Boisset | Lino Ventura, Krystyna Janda, Michel Piccoli | Spy film | |
| Fanny and Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren | Drama | Swedish–West German-French co-production |
| Five and the Skin | Pierre Rissient | Féodor Atkine, Eiko Matsuda, Gloria Diaz | Drama | |
| The Hatter's Ghost | Claude Chabrol | Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette | Mystery, thriller | |
| Identification of a Woman | Michelangelo Antonioni | Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson | Drama | Italian–French co-production |
| Invitation au voyage | Peter Del Monte | Laurent Malet, Nina Scott, Aurore Clément | Drama | French–Italian–West German co-production |
| L'amour des femmes | Michel Soutter | Heinz Bennent, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Marc Bory | Comedy | Swiss–French co-production |
| L'As Des As | Gérard Oury | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache | Comedy, adventure | |
| L'Étoile du Nord | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon | Drama | |
| La Balance | Bob Swaim | Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry | Crime | |
| La Boum 2 | Claude Pinoteau | Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau | Comedy, romance | |
| La Morte Vivante | Jean Rollin | Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Carina Barone | Horror | |
| Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer | Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle | Comedy drama, romance | |
| Le Choc | Robin Davis | Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Léotard | Thriller | |
| Le gendarme et les gendarmettes | Jean Girault, Tony Aboyantz | Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch | Comedy | |
| Le Père Noël est une ordure | Jean-Marie Poiré | Josiane Balasko, Anémone, Thierry Lhermitte | Comedy | |
| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux | | Science fiction | Swiss-French-West German-British-Hungarian co-production |
| Les Misérables | Robert Hossein | Lino Ventura, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet | Drama | |
| Les Sous-doués en vacances | Claude Zidi | Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani | Comedy | |
| The Magic Mountain | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Christoph Eichhorn, Marie-France Pisier, Flavio Bucci | | West German–French–Italian–Austrian co-production |
| Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Armin Jordan, Wolfgang Schöne, Martin Sperr | Musical | French–West German co-production |
| The Passerby | Jacques Rouffio | Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem | Drama | French–West German co-production |
| Passion | Jean-Luc Godard | Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert | Drama | Swiss–French co-production |
| Pour cent briques, t'as plus rien... | Édouard Molinaro | Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Jugnot | Comedy | |
| The Roaring Forties | Christian de Chalonge | Jacques Perrin, Julie Christie, Michel Serrault | Drama | |
| Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! | Coline Serreau | Henri Garcin, Évelyne Buyle | Comedy | |
| Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt! | Denys Granier-Deferre | Jean Poiret, Michel Piccoli | Comedy, Drama | |
| Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | West German–French co-production |
| The Return of Martin Guerre | Daniel Vigne | Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Roger Planchon | Drama | |
| The Scorpion with Two Tails | Sergio Martino | Claudio Cassinelli, Elvire Audray, John Saxon | Horror, thriller | Italian–French co-production |
| Shot Pattern | Jean-Claude Missiaen | Gérard Lanvin, Véronique Jannot, Michel Constantin | Crime | |
| Sweet Inquest on Violence | Gérard Guérin | Michael Lonsdale, Prune Bergé, Elise Caron | | |
| T'empêches tout le monde de dormir | Gérard Lauzier | Philippe Khorsand, Tanya Lopert | Comedy | |
| That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla | Historical | French–Italian co-production |
| Tir groupé | Jean-Claude Missiaen | Corinne Touzet, Franck Capillery | Crime, Drama | |
| Tout Feu, Tout Flamme | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon | | |
| The Trout | Joseph Losey | Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeanne Moreau | Drama | |
| Une chambre en ville | Jacques Demy | Dominique Sanda, Richard Berry, Danielle Darrieux | Comedy-drama, musical | |
| Violence in a Women's Prison | Bruno Mattei | Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Lorraine de Selle | Adult | Italian–French co-production |
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