LIST OF CANADIAN FILMS

A list of films produced in 'Canada' ordered by year and date of release. For an A-Z list of Canadian films see ''
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Contents

Pre 1910

1910s-1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

External links

Pre 1910

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1897'
''Ten Years in Manitoba''	James Freer	James Freer

1910s-1920s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1919'
''Back to God's Country''	David Hartford	Nell Shipman
'1920'
''The Great Shadow''
'1922'
''Big Timber''	John W. Noble
'1924'
''Blue Water''	David Hartford	Norma Shearer

1930s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1930'
''Yamekraw''	Murray Roth
'1931'
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'1932'
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'1933'
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'1934'
''Bosom Friends''				Nominated for Oscar
'1935'
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'1936'
''La Maison en ordre''	Gordon Sparling
'1937'
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'1938'
''The Kinsmen''	Gordon Sparling
'1939'
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1940s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1940'
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'1941'
''Churchill's Island''	Stuart Legg		Documentary	First Oscar for short documentary
'1942'
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'1943'
''Banshees Over Canada''	James Beverage		Documentary	Allied progaganda film
''Fighting Norway''	Sydney Newman		Documentary	Allied progaganda film
'1944'
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'1945'
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'1946'
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'1947'
''Bush Pilot''
'1948'
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'1949'
''Begone Dull Care''	Norman McLaren		Direct film	Visual music presentation of Oscar Peterson

1950s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1950'
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'1951'
''Around Is Around''	Norman McLaren		Short animation	Won Special award
'1952'
''Neighbours''	Norman McLaren	Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur	Pixilation	Oscar winner
'1953'
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'1954'
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'1955'
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'1956'
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'1957'
''A Chairy Tale''	Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra	Claude Jutra	Pixilation	Oscar nominee
''City of Gold''	Colin Low, Wolf Koenig		Documentary	Klondike Gold Rush; Oscar nominee
'1958'
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'1959'
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1960s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1960'
''Universe''	Roman Kroitor, Colin Low		Documentary	Major influence for
'1961'
''Macbeth''	Paul Almond	Sean Connery
''Very Nice, Very Nice''	Arthur Lipsett		Experimental	Academy Award nominee
'1962'
''	Julian Biggs
''Lonely Boy''	Roman Kroitor		Documentary	Cinema verite classic on Paul Anka
'1963'
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'1964'
''21-87''	Arthur Lipsett		Experimental	Major influence on George Lucas [1]
''Canon''
''Le Chat dans le sac''	Gilles Groulx	Claude Houdhout
''Nobody Waved Goodbye''	Don Owen			AV Trust "Masterwork" [2]
'1965'
''The Railrodder''	Gerald Potterton	Buster Keaton		Keaton's last silent film role
''Winter Kept Us Warm''	David Secter
'1966'
''Le roi de cœur''
'1967'
''Wavelength''	Michael Snow		Structural film
''In the Labyrinth''	Roman Kroitor Colin Low Hugh O'Connor		Multi-screen	Major attraction at Expo 67 precursor to IMAX
''From the Drain''	David Cronenberg
''Warrendale''	Allan King		Documentary	Canadian Film Award winner
'1968'
''The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes''	Bill Mason			BAFTA award-winner
'1969'
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1970s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1970'
''Crimes of the Future''	David Cronenberg	Ronald Mlodzik
''Goin' Down the Road''	Donald Shebib			AV Trust "Masterwork"
'1971'
''Fleur bleue (The Apprentice)''	Larry Kent	Susan Sarandon	Comedy	Bilingual film
''Fortune and Men's Eyes''		Harvey Hart		Based on award-winning play Controversial look at homosexuality
''Mon oncle Antoine''	Claude Jutra			Voted greatest Canadian film of all time
'1972'
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'1973'
''Cannibal Girls''	Ivan Reitman	Eugene Levy	Horror spoof	Reitman's third film
'1974'
'' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz''	Ted Kotcheff	Richard Dreyfuss		Based on Mordechai Richler novel Golden Bear winner
''Black Christmas''	Bob Clark	Olivia Hussey
''Orders''	Michel Brault	Jean Lapointe	Historical drama	Cannes award winner
'1975'
''Christmas Two Step''
''Duo/Duel''			Animation
''Lies My Father Told Me''	Ján Kadár			Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film
''Le Soleil a pas d'chance''	Robert Favreau
'1976'
''The Clown Murders''	Martyn Burke	John Candy	Horror
''Shoot (film)''	Harvey Hart
'1977'
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'1978'
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'1979'
''The Changeling''	Peter Medak			Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''City on Fire''	Alvin Rakoff			Resurrected from obscurity by ''Mystery Science Theater 3000
''H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come''	George McCowan	Barry Morse
''Meatballs (film)''	Ivan Reitman	Bill Murray	Comedy	Reitman's first major hit as a director

1980s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1980'
''Bad Company''	Peter Wronski
''Les bons débarras''	Francis Mankiewicz			Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''Deadly Companion''	George Bloomfield	John Candy
''Every Child''	Derek Lamb		Animation	Oscar winner
''Happy Birthday to Me''	J. Lee Thompson
''The Hockey Sweater''	Sheldon Cohen		Animation	Adaptation of Roch Carrier children's story
''Corridors''	Robert Favreau
''Pris au piège''	Robert Favreau
'1981'
''The Burning''	Tony Maylam	Jason Alexander
'' My Bloody Valentine''	George Mahika		Slasher film	Shot in Cape Breton Island coal mines
''Le confort et l'indifférence''	Denys Arcand		Documentary	Analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum
''Heartaches''	Donald Shebib	Margot Kidder		Best Actress Genie
''Heavy Metal''	Gerald Potterton		Animation
''Just Another Missing Kid''	John Zaritsky		Documentary	Academy Award for Documentary Feature
''Quest for Fire''	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Rae Dawn Chong, Everett McGill		Canada/France/U.S. co-production; César Award-winner
''Scanners''	David Cronenberg	Michael Ironside
''Ticket to Heaven''	Ralph L. Thomas	Saul Rubinek	Drama	Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
'1982'
''Deadly Eyes''	Robert Clouse	Scatman Crothers
''The Grey Fox''	Phillip Borsos	Richard Farnsworth		Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''Humongous''	Paul Lynch	Janet Julian, David Wallace
''If You Love This Planet''	Terri Nash		Documentary	Oscar winner; labeled subversive by U.S. gov.
''Paradise''	Stuart Gillard
'1983'
''Narcissus''	Norman McLaren	Jean-Louis Morin		McLaren's last film
''Videodrome''	David Cronenberg	James Woods		Cult classic
'1984'
''The Bay Boy''	Daniel Petrie	Kiefer Sutherland		Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
'1985'
''The Big Snit''	Richard Condie		Animation	Oscar nominee
''The Care Bears Movie''	Arna Selznick		Animation	Golden Reel for top box office
''Crime Wave''	John Paizs
''Joshua Then and Now''	Ted Kotcheff	James Woods		Written by Mordechai Richler 5 Genie Award wins and 7 nominations [3]
''The Last Polka''
''My American Cousin''	Sandy Wilson			Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
'1986'
''The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood''	Andy Jones	Robert Joy, Greg Malone		Featuring CODCO members
''	Dale Schott		Animation
''Le Déclin de l'empire américain''	Denys Arcand			Canada's ''The Big Chill''; winner of 9 Genie Awards
''Final Offer''	Sturla Gunnarsson	Buzz Hargrove	Documentary	Genie for Best Documentary Birth of the Canadian Auto Workers
'1987'
''The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland''	Raymond Jafelice		Animation	Last of the Care Bears features
''	Bruce Pittman	Michael Ironside
''Train of Dreams''	John N. Smith			Special Jury Prize, Chicago International Film Festival
''Un zoo la nuit'' (''Night Zoo'')	Jean-Claude Lauzon			Record-setting: 13 Genie Awards
'1988'
''The Accused''	Jonathan Kaplan	Jodie Foster		Best Actress Oscar
''Dead Ringers''	David Cronenberg			Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''Portion d'éternité''	Robert Favreau
''Tales from the Gimli Hospital''	Guy Maddin			Cult classic
'1989'
''American Boyfriends''	Sandy Wilson			Sequel to ''My American Cousin''
''Bye Bye Blues''	Anne Wheeler	Rebecca Jenkins		Best Actress Genie
''Jesus of Montreal''	Denys Arcand	Lothaire Bluteau	Modern day passion play	Genie Award for Best Motion Picture

1990s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'1990'
''The Amityville Curse''
''Archangel''	Guy Maddin
''Black Robe''	Bruce Beresford			Canada/Australia co-production; Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''The Company of Strangers''	Cynthia Scott			U.S. release: ''Strangers in Good Company''
''Roadkill''	Bruce McDonald	Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar		Genies for best screenplay & supporting actor
''White Room''	Patricia Rozema	Kate Nelligan
'1991'
''The Adjuster''	Atom Egoyan	Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin		Best Canadian Feature at TIFF
''Highway 61''	Bruce McDonald	Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar		Best Canadian Feature at TIFF
''Naked Lunch''	David Cronenberg	Peter Weller		Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''Nelligan''	Robert Favreau
'1992'
''Being at Home with Claude''		Roy Dupuis
''Bordertown Café''	Norma Bailey	Janet Wright		Genie for Best Actress
''Buried on Sunday''	Paul Donovan	Paul Gross
''Careful''
''Léolo''	Jean-Claude Lauzon	Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno		One of ''Time's 100 best films [4]
''Le Mouton noir''	Jacques Godbout		Documentary	Aftermath of Meech Lake
''The Yo-Yo Gang''				Queercore
'1993'
''I Love a Man in Uniform''	David Wellington	Tom McCamus		Genie Award for Best Actor
''Love and Human Remains''	Denys Arcand	Thomas Gibson		Genie for Best Adapted Screenplay Based on Brad Fraser's play
''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould''	François Girard	Colm Feore		Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
'1994'
''Le Confessional''	Robert Lepage	Lothaire Bluteau		Canada/ France/U.K. co-production; references filming of Hitchcock’s ''I Confess'' in Quebec City
''Dance Me Outside''	Bruce McDonald			Based on a book by W.P. Kinsella
''Double Happiness''	Mina Shum	Sandra Oh		Genie for Best Actress
''Exotica''	Atom Egoyan			Cannes Film Festival prize winner
'1995'
''Johnny Mnemonic''	Keanu Reeves			William Gibson adaptation
''Margaret's Museum''	Mort Ransen	Helena Bonham Carter		Six Genie Awards
''The Michelle Apartments''	John Pozer	Henry Czerny	Black comedy
''Screamers''	Christian Duguay	Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin	Sci-fi / Horror	Philip K. Dick adaptation
'1996'
''The Best Bad Thing''
''Fire''	Deepa Mehta			Banned in India; first in the ''Fire'', ''Earth'', ''Water trilogy
''Hard Core Logo''	Bruce McDonald		Mockumentary
''Project Grizzly''	Peter Lynch	Troy Hurtubise	Documentary	Endorsed by Quentin Tarantino [5]
'1997'
''The Assignment''	Christian Duguay	Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland
''Cube''
''The Sweet Hereafter''	Atom Egoyan	Ian Holm, Sarah Polley		-	'''			Animation
''Better Than Chocolate''	Anne Wheeler
''Existenz''	David Cronenberg	Jude Law		Golden Reel for top box office
''Felicia's Journey''	Atom Egoyan	Bob Hoskins
''	Catherine Annau		Documentary	Genie for Best Feature Doc Explores the Trudeau legacy

2000s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
'2000'
''Apartment Hunting''	Bill Robertson	Kari Matchett, Rachel Hayward	Romantic comedy
''Bait''	Antoine Fuqua	Jamie Foxx
''Ginger Snaps''	John Fawcett	Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle	Horror	Best Film, Int. Horror Guild [6]
''Traître ou Patriote''	Jacques Godbout		Documentary	Legacy of filmmaker's great-uncle, Adélard Godbout
''Waydowntown''	Gary Burns			Best Canadian feature at TIFF
'2001'
''18000 Dead In Gordon Head''
''Avalanche Alley''	Paul Ziller	Ed Marinaro, Nick Mancuso
''Atanarjuat''	Zacharias Kunuk			First Inuit-produced feature
''Century Hotel''
''Druids''
''Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter''	Lee Demarbre			Santa Cruz-Best Sci-Fi
''Lost and Delirious''	Léa Pool	Jessica Pare
'2002'
''Ararat''	Atom Egoyan			Armenian genocide
''The Bay of Love and Sorrows''	Tim Southam	Peter Outerbridge
''Bollywood/Hollywood''	Deepa Mehta
''				Sequel to 1997's ''Cube''
''Cypher''
''	Guy Maddin
''Drawing Flies''
''Duct Tape Forever''				Based on ''The Red Green Show''
''	Brad Peyton	Nadia Litz	Black comedy
''Flower & Garnet''				Claude Jutra Award
''	Michael Dowse	David Lawrence		Debuted at Sundance
''Men with Brooms''	Paul Gross	Paul Gross, Leslie Nielsen	Comedy
''	Charles Binamé			Golden Reel Award
'2003'
''À Hauteur d'homme''	Jean-Claude Labrecque		Documentary	Jutra-winning look at Bernard Landry
''The Barbarian Invasions''	Denys Arcand	Rémy Girard		Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
''The Corporation''	Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar		Documentary	Audience Award at Sundance
''Cowards Bend the Knee''	Guy Maddin			Originally planned as a peep-show
''Emil''		Ian McKellen
''Expiration''	Gavin Heffernan
''Love That Boy''	Nadia Litz		Romantic comedy
''Mambo Italiano''		Luke Kirby
''The Saddest Music in the World''	Guy Maddin	Isabella Rossellini		Jury prize winner at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
''Seducing Doctor Lewis''	Jean-François Pouliot		Comedy	World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance
''La Face cachée de la lune''	Robert Lepage			Quebec
'2004'
''Being Julia''	István Szabó	Annette Bening
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''Childstar''	Mark Rendall, Don McKellar	Don McKellar
''Cube Zero''				Prequel to original ''Cube''
''Decoys''		Nicole Eggert, Kim Poirier
''Elles étaient cinq''
''The Final Cut''		Robin Williams
''Geraldine's Fortune''		Jane Curtin		Based on a play by Michel Tremblay
''		Emily Perkins
''Ginger Snaps Back''
''Godsend''		Greg Kinnear
''Going the Distance''		Christopher Jacot
''Heart of America''	Uwe Bol
''It's All Gone Pete Tong''	Paul Kaye			Canadian Comedy Award Best Film/Actor
''Mémoires affectives''		Roy Dupuis		7 Genie and Jutra awards
''Ryan''	Chris Landreth	Ryan Larkin		Academy Award for Animated Short Film
''	Peter Raymont		Documentary	Also a 2007 dramatic feature
''Zeyda and the Hitman''
'2005'
''3 Needles''				AIDS drama
''Aurore''				Based on true story of Aurore Gagnon
''Beowulf & Grendel''	Sturla Gunnarsson			Adaptation of epic ''Beowulf''; filmed in Iceland
''C.R.A.Z.Y.''	Jean-Marc Vallée			Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
''Murder Unveiled''				Based on the true story of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu
''The Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard''			Short
''Water''	Deepa Mehta			Foreign-language Oscar nominee
'2006'
''Away From Her''	Sarah Polley	Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent		Polley's directorial debut; based on story by Alice Munro
''Black Christmas''	Glen Morgan
''Bombay Calling''	Samir Mallal		Documentary	Indian call centers
''Bon Cop, Bad Cop''	Eric Canuel	Colm Feore, Patrick Huard		Nominated for 10 Genies
''Brand Upon the Brain!''	Guy Maddin
''The Danish Poet''	Torill Kove		Animated short	Academy Award
''The Wild''	Steve 'Spaz' Williams
''A Dog's Breakfast''
''Fido''	Andrew Currie	Carrie-Ann Moss	Zombie comedy
''The Journals of Knud Rasmussen''	Zacharias Kunuk			Canada/Denmark co-production; Kunuk's follow-up to hit ''Atanarjuat''
''Manufactured Landscapes''	Jennifer Baichwal		Documentary
'2007'
''Breakfast with Scot''
''Decoys 2''		Kim Poirier
''Emotional Arithmetic''
''Madame Tutli-Putli	Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski		Stop motion	Cannes prize winner
''Shake Hands with the Devil''	Roger Spottiswoode	Roy Dupuis		See also
''Steel Toes'' (2007 film)	David Gow (writer/director/producer)	starring David Strathairn and new-comer Andrew W. Walker	Montreal, Quebec

External links

★ Canadian film at the Internet Movie Database