| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|
| Ahô: The Forest People | François Floquet, Daniel Bertolino | | Documentary | |
| L'Amour blessé | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | | Drama | |
| At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch | Deepa Mehta | Louise Tandy Murch | Documentary | |
| Before the Time Comes (Le Temps de l'avant) | Anne Claire Poirier | Luce Guilbeault, Pierre Gobeil, Paule Baillargeon | Drama | |
| Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire) | Clément Perron | Serge L'Italien, André Melançon | Drama | |
| Confidences of the Night (L'Amour blessé) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Louise Cuerrier | Drama | |
| Don't Push It (Pousse mais pousse égal) | Denis Héroux | Gilles Latulippe, Celine Lomez, Yves Létourneau | Comedy | |
| Cold Journey | Martin Defalco | John Yesno, Dan George, Buckley Petawabano | Drama | NFB feature on residential schools |
| Eliza's Horoscope | Gordon Sheppard | Elizabeth Moorman, Tommy Lee Jones, Lila Kedrova | Drama | [1] |
| For Better or For Worse (Pour le meilleur et pour le pire) | Claude Jutra | Claude Jutra, Monique Miller | Comedy | |
| Gina | Denys Arcand | Céline Lomez, Gabriel Arcand, Paule Baillargeon | Drama | |
| Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS | Don Edmonds | Dyanne Thorne, George Buck Flower | Sexploitation thriller | |
| It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | John Trent | Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, Isaac Hayes, John Candy | Comedy. | John Candy's first film role |
| Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Denis Héroux | Mort Shuman, Elly Stone, Joe Masiell | Based on the popular stage production | Canada-France co-production |
| Journey into Fear | Daniel Mann | Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Vincent Price, Shelley Winters | Thriller | A remake of the Orson Welles film from 1943 made by a British production company in Vancouver. |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeffrey Lynas, Ted Allan | Drama based on a short story by Ted Allen | Academy Award nominee for Best Screenplay; Canadian Film Awards – Film of the Year, Adapted Screenplay, Actress (Marilyn Lightstone), Sound; Golden Reel Award; Golden Globes – Best Foreign Film |
| Lions for Breakfast | William Davidson | Jim Henshaw, Jan Rubeš, Susan Petrie | Children's film | [2] |
| The Man Who Skied Down Everest | Budge Crawley | Yuichiro Miura | Documentary based on the diary of Yuichiro Miura | |
| Metamorphosis | Barry Greenwald | | Short | Canadian Film Award – Non-Feature Sound Editing; Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or for Short Film [3] |
| Monsieur Pointu | Bernard Longpré, André Leduc | | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee |
| My Pleasure Is My Business | Al Waxman | Xaviera Hollander, Henry Ramer, Colin Fox | Exploitation | [4] |
| Normande (La tête de Normande St-Onge) | Gilles Carle | Carole Laure, Raymond Cloutier, Reynald Bouchard | Drama | [5] |
| Recommendation for Mercy | Murray Markowitz | Andrew Skidd, Robb Judd, Mike Upmalis | | |
| Shivers | David Cronenberg | Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry | Horror | David Cronenberg's first feature |
| Sudden Fury | Brian Damude | Dominic Hogan, Gay Rowan, Dan Hennessey | Thriller | |
| The Swindle (La Gammick) | Jacques Godbout | Marc Legault, Dorothée Berryman | Crime drama | |
| The Vultures (Les Vautours) | Jean-Claude Labrecque | Gilbert Sicotte, Monique Mercure, Gabriel Arcand | Drama | [6] |
| Whistling Smith | Marrin Cannell, Michael Scott | Bernie Smith | Documentary | |
| White Line Fever | Jonathan Kaplan | Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones | Drama | Shot in Arizona with American actors, produced by John Kemeny and distributed by Columbia Pictures. |
