| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
| After the Axe |
Sturla Gunnarsson |
James Douglas |
National Film Board docudrama |
Academy Award nominee
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| Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui |
|
|
Documentary |
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| Baker Country U.S.A. |
William Fruet |
Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell |
Drama |
Made with U.S. financing
|
| Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) |
Anne Claire Poirier |
Monique Mercure, Jacques Godin |
National Film Board drama |
|
| Big Meat Eater |
Chris Windsor |
Clarence Miller, George Dawson |
Science fiction comedy, cult film |
|
| Brushstrokes |
Sylvie Fefer |
|
Animated short |
|
| By Design |
Claude Jutra |
Sara Botsford, Patty Duke Astin, Saul Rubinek, Clare Coulter |
Drama |
|
| Class of 1984 |
Mark L. Lester |
Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Michael J. Fox |
Action |
|
| Comfort and Indifference (Le Confort et l'indifférence) |
Denys Arcand |
|
Documentary |
|
| Cries from the Deep |
Jacques Gagné |
|
Documentary |
|
| A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) |
Robert Ménard |
Jean Yanne, Gilles Renaud, Monique Mercure |
Drama |
|
| Deadly Companion (Double Negative) |
George Bloomfield |
John Candy, Anthony Perkins |
Mystery |
|
| Deadly Eyes |
Robert Clouse |
Sam Bloom, Scatman Crothers, Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Lisa Langlois, Lesleh Donaldson |
Horror |
|
| Footsteps |
Scott Barrie |
|
Short drama |
|
| Gala |
Michael McKennirey, John N. Smith |
|
Documentary |
|
| The Great Chess Movie |
Gilles Carle, Camille Coudrai |
|
National Film Board documentary |
|
| The Grey Fox |
Phillip Borsos |
Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke |
Western |
AV Preservation Trust Masterwork
|
| Hard Feelings |
Daryl Duke |
Carl Marotte, Charlaine Woodard |
Drama |
|
| Harry Tracy, Desperado |
William Graham |
Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot |
Western |
|
| The Hawk |
Martin Kahan |
Ronnie Hawkins |
Documentary |
|
| Highpoint |
Peter Carter |
Christopher Plummer, Beverly D'Angelo, Kate Reid, Maury Chaykin, Saul Rubinek, Peter Donat |
Drama |
Stuntman Dar Robinson does the free fall from the top of the CN Tower at the end of the movie.
|
| Humongous |
Paul Lynch |
Janet Julian, David Wallace |
Horror |
|
| If You Could See What I Hear |
Eric Till |
Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Shari Belafonte-Harper, Douglas Campbell |
Bio-drama |
Based on the biography of Tom Sullivan, a blind American singer/ songwriter and athlete; Genie Award - Supporting Actor (Thomson)
|
| If You Love This Planet |
Terri Nash |
Helen Caldicott |
National Film Board documentary |
Oscar winner; labeled subversive by U.S. gov.
|
| The Incubus |
John Hough |
John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes |
Horror |
|
| Killing 'em Softly |
Max Fischer |
Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, Clark Johnson |
Drama |
|
| Larose, Pierrot and Luce (Larose, Pierrot et la Luce) |
Claude Gagnon |
Richard Niquette, Luc Matte, Louise Portal |
Comedy-drama |
|
| Latitude 55° |
John Juliani |
August Schellenberg, Andrée Pelletier |
Drama |
|
| Liona Boyd: First Lady of the Guitar |
Alan Simmonds |
Liona Boyd, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Eli Kassner, Liberace |
Documentary |
Made for TV
|
| Luc or His Share of Things (Luc ou la part des choses) |
Michel Audy |
Pierre Normandin, Éric Boulay, Alain Thiffault |
Drama |
|
| Melanie |
Rex Bromfield |
Burton Cummings, Glynnis O'Connor |
Drama |
Genie Awards – Foreign Actress (O’Connor), Adapted Screenplay, Song
|
| Murder by Phone |
Michael Anderson |
Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Barry Morse |
Drama |
Made with U.S. financing
|
| Odyssey in the Pacific (The Emperor of Peru) |
Fernando Arrabal |
Mickey Rooney, Anick, Johnathan Starr, Monique Mercure |
Surreal children's film |
Canada-France co-production; screenplay by Fernando Arrabal and Roger Lemelin
|
| Paradise |
Stuart Gillard |
Willie Ames, Phoebe Cates, Tuvia Tavi |
Drama |
|
| Poetry in Motion |
Ron Mann |
Including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits |
Documentary |
|
| A Portrait of Giselle |
Muriel Balash |
|
Documentary |
|
| Red Eyes (Les Yeux rouges) |
Yves Simoneau |
Marie Tifo, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Pierre Curzi |
Crime drama |
|
| Scandale |
George Mihalka |
Sophie Lorain, Gilbert Comptois, Nanette Workman |
Comedy |
|
| Scissere |
Peter Mettler |
Greg Krantz |
Experimental feature |
|
| The Shimmering Beast (La bête lumineuse) |
Pierre Perrault |
|
National Film Board documentary |
Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Shocktrauma |
Eric Till |
|
Drama |
|
| Split Image |
Ted Kotcheff |
Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda |
Drama |
PolyGram
|
| Spring Fever |
Joseph Scanlan |
Carling Bassett, Susan Anton, Frank Converse, Jessica Walter, Stephen Young |
Drama |
Made with U.S. financing
|
| Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) |
Fernand Dansereau |
Hélène Loiselle, Marcel Sabourin, Genevieve Brassard |
Drama |
|
| Ted Baryluk's Grocery |
John Paskievich, Michael Mirus |
|
Documentary |
|
| Visiting Hours |
Jean-Claude Lord |
Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Lenore Zann |
Thriller |
Distributed in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox, this low-budget movie was a box office success and launched Michael Ironside’s career Stateside.
|
| Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs sauvages) |
Jean Pierre Lefebvre |
Marthe Nadeau, Michèle Magny, Pierre Curzi |
Drama |
Cannes – International Critics Prize
|
Cinema of Canada