| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Bear Island | Don Sharp | Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee | Action drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Bravery in the Field | Giles Walker | Les Rubie, Matt Craven | Drama |
| The Brood | David Cronenberg | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle | Horror |
| Bye, See You Monday (Au revoir... à lundi) | Maurice Dugowson | Carole Laure, Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur | Romance | France-Canada co-production |
| Certain Practices | Martin Lavut | Richard Monette, Alan Scarfe | Drama |
| Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) | Jean-Claude Lord | Lise Thouin, Jean Belzil-Gascon, Jean-Louis Roux, Colin Fox | Drama |
| City on Fire | Alvin Rakoff | Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
| Crossbar | John Trent | Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, John Ireland, Kate Reid | Drama | CBC television film |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | Documentary |
| Every Child | Derek Lamb | National Film Board animated short | Best Short Film at the Academy Awards |
| Every Person Is Guilty | Paul Almond | Ken Pogue, Lynne Griffin | Drama |
| Fast Company | David Cronenberg | William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Cedric Smith | Race track drama | [1] |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Will Sampson, Don Francks, Charles Fields | Family film |
| Getting Started | Richard Condie | NFB animated short |
| Going the Distance | Paul Cowan | NFB documentary | Academy Award nominee |
| Heartbreak (L'arrache-cœur) | Mireille Dansereau | Louise Marleau, Françoise Faucher, Michel Mondie | Drama |
| Ida Makes a Movie | Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler | Zoe Newman | Drama | Pilot film for the Degrassi television franchise |
| Interview | Caroline Leaf | Animated short |
| Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère) | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson | Drama | Canada-France coproduction |
| King Solomon's Treasure | Alvin Rakoff | John Colicos | Adventure drama |
| The Log Driver's Waltz | John Weldon | Animated short |
| A Man, a Woman, and a Bank | Noel Black | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams | Crime drama |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch | Summer camp comedy | Bill Murray's first film |
| Murder by Decree | Bob Clark | Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings | A Sherlock Holmes mystery based on the Jack the Ripper killings | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Nails | Phillip Borsos | Short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Awards – Live-Action Short, Non-Feature Musical Score |
| Paper Wheat | Albert Kish |
| The Bureaucrat Observed | Donald Brittain | Documentary |
| Plague | Ed Hunt | Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Celine Lomez | Science fiction |
| Revolution's Orphans | John N. Smith | Rudi Lipp, Bronwen Mantel | Short drama |
| Riel | Roy Moore | Raymond Cloutier, Christopher Plummer | Historical drama |
| Romie-0 and Julie-8 | Clive A. Smith | Animated |
| Running | Steven Hilliard Stern | Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy, Chuck Shamata | Melodrama |
| A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) | Anne Claire Poirier | Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie | Docudrama |
| Search and Destroy | William Fruet | Don Stroud, Perry King, Tisa Farrow, George Kennedy | Action drama | Made with U.S. financing[2] |
| The Shape of Things to Come | George McCowan | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse | Science fiction | [3][4] |
| Something's Rotten | Harvey Frost | Charlotte Blunt, Geoffrey Bowes, Christopher Barry, Cec Linder | Drama |
| Stone Cold Dead | George Mendeluk |
| Summer's Children | Julius Kohanyi | Thomas Hauff, Michael Ironside, Don Francks | Drama |
| Us Two (À nous deux) | Claude Lelouch | Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Paul Préboist, Bernard Lecoq, Émile Genest | Crime drama, romance | Canada-France co-production |
| Wild Horse Hank | Eric Till | Drama |
| The Wordsmith | Claude Jutra | Saul Rubinek, Janet Ward, Peter Boretski | Drama |
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2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=774&DotsIdNumber= |title=Item: - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date= |accessdate=2017-03-31}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cff/001096-119.01-e.php?&film_id=822&interval=20&|publisher=Collections Canada|title=The Shape of Things to Come|accessdate=February 9, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-shape-of-things-to-come-v109740|publisher=AllMovie|title=The Shape of Things to Come|last=Mannikka|first=Eleanor|accessdate=February 9, 2015}}
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