| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
| 64,000,000 Years Ago |
Bill Maylone |
|
National Film Board animated short |
|
| Alligator Shoes |
Clay Borris |
Clay Borris, Garry Borris, Ronalda Jones |
Drama |
|
| The Amateur |
Charles Jarrott |
John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill |
Drama |
|
| Being Different |
Harry Rasky |
Billy Barty, Sandy Allen, Jóhann K. Pétursson |
Documentary |
|
| Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth |
Norma Bailey, Robert Lower |
|
Documentary |
|
| A Choice of Two |
John Howe |
Alexandra Bastedo, Mavor Moore, Leslie Nielsen, Gary Reineke |
Drama |
|
| Circle of Two |
Jules Dassin |
|
Drama |
Dassin's last film; novel by Marie-Térèse Baird
|
| Crac |
Frédéric Back |
|
Animated |
|
| The Devil at Your Heels |
Robert Fortier |
Ken Carter |
Documentary |
|
| Dirty Tricks |
Alvin Rakoff |
Elliott Gould, Kate Jackson, Arthur Hill, Rich Little, John Juliani |
Comedy |
|
| Elvis Gratton |
Pierre Falardeau |
Julien Poulin |
Short |
Genie Award – Theatrical Short
|
| Firebird 2015 AD |
David Robertson |
Darren McGavin, Doug McClure |
Futuristic drama |
|
| First Winter |
John N. Smith |
Kathleen McAuliffe, Sharon O'Neill, Eric Patrick Godfrey, Kevin Kennedy |
National Film Board dramatic short |
Academy Award nominee
|
| Gas |
Les Rose |
Philip Akin, Susan Anspach |
Comedy |
|
| Ghostkeeper |
Jim Makichuk |
|
Horror |
|
| Happy Birthday to Me |
J. Lee Thompson |
Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker |
Slasher film |
|
| Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) |
Francis Mankiewicz |
Monique Spaziani, Paul Hébert, R. H. Thomson, Julie Vincent |
Drama |
|
| Heartaches |
Donald Shebib |
Margot Kidder. Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Winston Rekert |
Drama |
Genie Award – Screenplay, Actress (Kidder), Foreign Actress (Potts)
|
| Heartbreak High |
Mark Warren |
|
Comedy |
|
| Heavy Metal |
Gerald Potterton |
Voices of Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Al Waxman |
Feature animation; based on the French fantasy magazine of the same name |
|
| The High Country |
Harvey Hart |
Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl |
Drama |
|
| The Hot Touch |
Roger Vadim |
|
Crime comedy |
|
| Imagine the Sound |
Ron Mann |
Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon and Paul Bley |
Feature documentary |
A film that focuses on four musicians of the free jazz movement.
|
| Improper Channels |
Eric Till |
Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley |
Comedy |
Genie Award– Foreign Actor (Arkin)
|
The Incubus |
John Hough |
|
Horror |
|
| Just Another Missing Kid |
John Zaritsky |
|
Documentary |
Academy Award for Documentary Feature
|
| Kings and Desperate Men |
Alexis Kanner |
Patrick McGoohan, Alexis Kanner, Margaret Trudeau |
Drama |
Featuring Margaret Trudeau, the ex-wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
|
| Mr. Patman |
John Guillermin |
James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, Les Carlson |
Drama |
|
| My Bloody Valentine |
George Mihalka |
Paul Kelman, Don Francks, Cynthia Dale |
Slasher film |
Shot in Cape Breton Island coal mines
|
| Nose and Tina |
Norma Bailey |
|
Documentary |
|
| Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography |
Bonnie Sherr Klein |
|
National Film Board documentary |
|
| Off the Wall |
Derek May |
|
Documentary |
|
| The Olden Days Coat |
Bruce Pittman |
Megan Follows, Doris Petrie |
Drama, Christmas |
|
| The Pit |
Lew Lehman |
|
Horror |
|
| The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) |
Gilles Carle |
Émile Genest, Juliette Huot, Denise Filiatrault, Gabriel Arcand |
Drama based on the novel by Roger Lemelin |
|
| Porky's |
Bob Clark |
Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Cattrall, Susan Clark |
Teen comedy |
Golden Reel Award; made with U.S. financing
|
| P4W: Prison for Women |
Janis Cole & Holly Dale |
|
Documentary |
Genie Award – Theatrical Documentary
|
| Quest for Fire |
Jean-Jacques Annaud |
|
Drama |
|
| Rubberface |
Glen Salzman, Rebecca Yates |
Jim Carrey |
Comedy |
|
| The Running Man |
Donald Brittain |
Chuck Shamata, Barbara Gordon, Colm Feore, Kate Trotter |
Drama |
|
| Scanners |
David Cronenberg |
Michael Ironside, Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane |
Horror/Sci-Fi |
|
| Silence of the North |
Allan King |
Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent |
Drama |
Genie Award – Cinematography
|
| Stade 81 |
Jaco Van Dormael |
|
Documentary |
|
| Surfacing |
Claude Jutra |
Joseph Bottoms, R. H. Thomson, Kathleen Beller, Michael Ironside |
Drama |
Adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel
|
| The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin |
Janet Perlman |
|
National Film Board animated short |
Academy Award nominee
|
| Threshold |
Richard Pearce |
Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham, Mavor Moore |
Medical drama |
Genie Award – Actor (Sutherland), Cinematography
|
| Ticket to Heaven |
Ralph L. Thomas |
Saul Rubinek, R. H. Thomson, Nick Mancuso, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Dale |
Cult drama |
|
| Top Priority |
Ishu Patel |
Vlasta Vrana , Maureen Hill, Paula Mazzone |
Animated short |
|
| Tulips |
Rex Bromfield |
Gabe Kaplan, Bernadette Peters, Henry Gibson, Al Waxman |
Comedy, drama |
|
| Violet |
Shelley Levinson |
Didi Conn |
Short drama |
|
| A War Story |
Anne Wheeler |
|
Docudrama |
|
| Yesterday |
Lawrence Kent |
Vincent Van Patten, Claire Pimparé |
Drama |
|
| Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid |
George Kaczender |
Richard Harris, Jennifer Dale, George Peppard, Jeanne Moreau, Winston Rekert, Alexandra Stewart |
Drama |
|
| Zea |
André Leduc, Jean-Jacques Leduc |
|
Non-fiction short |
|
