| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 24 heures ou plus | Gilles Groulx | | Political documentary | Completed in 1973; withheld from release until 1977 |
| The Angel and the Woman (L'Ange et la femme) | Gilles Carle | Carole Laure, Lewis Furey | Fantasy | |
| Bead Game | Ishu Patel | | NFB animated short | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 50th Academy Awards |
| Bernie and the Gang (Ti-mine, Bernie pis la gang...) | Marcel Carrière | Marcel Sabourin, Jean Lapointe, Rita Lafontaine, Guy L'Écuyer | Comedy | |
| Cathy's Curse | Eddy Matalon | | Horror | |
| A Cosmic Christmas | Clive A. Smith | Martin Lavut, Duncan Regehr, Chris Wiggins | Animated | |
| Crash 'n Burn | Ross McLaren | | Documentary | |
| Deadly Harvest | Timothy Bond | Clint Walker, Kim Cattrall | Science fiction | Bond's first film; Walker's last starring role |
| The Disappearance | Stuart Cooper | Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings | Thriller | |
| Famille et variations | Mireille Dansereau | | Documentary | |
| The Fighting Men | Don Shebib | Allan Royal, Robert Lalonde | Survival TV film | Released in theatres as Men of Steel (1988) |
| Full Circle | Richard Loncraine | Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea | Horror | |
| Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe olympiade) | Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux, Jean-Claude Labrecque | | Documentary | |
| Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher | John N. Smith | Martin Kevan, Marina Dimakopoulos | Short drama | |
| Henry Ford's America | Donald Brittain | | Documentary | |
| Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love | Harry Rasky | Narrated by James Mason | Documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. |
| The Hottest Show on Earth | Terence Macartney-Filgate, Derek Lamb, Wolf Koenig | David Suzuki | Documentary | |
| I'll Find a Way | Beverly Shaffer | | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Short Subject |
| Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia | Jean LaFleur | Dyanne Thorne, Michel Morin, Jean-Guy Latour | Exploitation | [1] |
| Ilsa, the Wicked Warden | Jesús Franco | Dyanne Thorne | Exploitation | |
| The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline | Jesse Nishihata | | Documentary | |
| J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) | Jean Beaudin | Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thiéry | Historical melodrama, romance | It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork |
| The Late Blossom (Le soleil se lève en retard) | André Brassard | Rita Lafontaine, Yvon Deschamps, Denise Filiatrault | Drama | |
| The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine) | Gilles Carle | Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Lachance | Drama | |
| La Menace | Alain Corneau | | Drama | |
| Metal Messiah | Tibor Takács | David Jensen, John Paul Young | Science fiction, musical | |
| The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa | Caroline Leaf | | Animated | Ten international awards by 1981 |
| My Pleasure Is My Business | Al Waxman | Xaviera Hollander, Henry Ramer, Colin Fox | Exploitation | [2] |
| The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (La Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Marcel Sabourin, Anouk Ferjac, Myriam Boyer, Roger Blin | Drama | [3] |
| One Man | Robin Spry | Len Cariou, Jayne Eastwood, Barry Morse, Carole Lazare, Jean Lapointe | Drama | Canadian Film Awards – Actor (Cariou), Supporting Actor (Lapointe), Supporting Actress (Lazare), Editing, Sound [4] |
| Outrageous! | Richard Benner | Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Allan Moyle, David McIlwraith, Helen Shaver | Comedy | |
| Panic (Panique) | Jean-Claude Lord | Paule Baillargeon, Jean Coutu, Lise Thouin | Docudrama | |
| The Prophet from Pugwash | Carol Moore-Ede | | Documentary | |
| Rabid | David Cronenberg | Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver | Horror | |
| Ragtime Summer | Alan Bridges | David Warner, Honor Blackman, Trudy Young, Cec Linder, Tim Henry | Romance | Canada-UK co-production[5] |
| Rituals | Peter Carter | Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell | Horror | |
| The Rubber Gun | Allan Moyle | Stephen Lack, Allan Moyle | Drama | |
| The Sand Castle | Co Hoedeman | | NFB animated short | Academy Award winner for animated short[6] |
| Silver Blaze | John Davies | Christopher Plummer, Thorley Walters | Drama | |
| Skip Tracer | Zale Dalen | David Petersen, John Lazarus | Drama | |
| Spartree | Phillip Borsos | | Documentary | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short, Non-Feature Cinematography, Non-Feature Sound [7] |
| A Special Day | Ettore Scola | Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon | Drama | Italy-Canada co-production; Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film |
| Spinnolio | John Weldon | Henry Ramer, Peter MacNeill | Animated | |
| Starship Invasions | Ed Hunt | Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon | Science fiction | |
| The Uncanny | Denis Héroux | Peter Cushing, Alexandra Stewart, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence | Horror | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Welcome to Blood City | Peter Sasdy | Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar | Western, science fiction | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Who Has Seen the Wind | Allan King | Brian Painchaud, Gordon Pinsent, Patricia Hamilton | Drama | Based on the novel by W.O. Mitchell |
| Why Shoot the Teacher? | Silvio Narizzano | Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins | Drama | |
