Title
|
Director
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Cast
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Genre
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Notes
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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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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
|
Les Yeux rouges ou les vérité accidentelles |
Yves Simoneau |
Marie Tifo,
Jean-Marie Lemieux,
Pierre Curzi |
Crime drama |
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