Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
The Alley Cat (Le Matou) |
Jean Beaudin |
Serge Dupire,
Monique Spaziani,
Jean Carmet,
Julien Guiomar |
Drama |
Based on the novel by
Yves Beauchemin;
Genie Award - Musical Score
|
Anne of Green Gables |
Kevin Sullivan |
Megan Follows,
Colleen Dewhurst,
Richard Farnsworth,
Patricia Hamilton,
Schuyler Grant,
Jackie Burroughs |
CBC-TV miniseries |
Based on the book by
Lucy Maud Montgomery. When the two-part miniseries was broadcast in 1985, it attracted the largest single audience for a
CBC-TV drama in the history of the network.
|
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got |
Brigitte Berman |
Artie Shaw |
Documentary |
Academy Award for Feature Documentary
|
Bayo |
Mort Ransen |
Ed McNamara, Hugh Webster |
Drama |
|
The Big Snit |
Richard Condie |
|
National Film Board animated short |
Oscar nominee;
Genie Award – Animated Short
|
The Blue Man |
George Mihalka |
|
Horror |
|
Breaking All the Rules |
James Orr |
|
Comedy |
|
Caffè Italia, Montréal |
Paul Tana |
Tony Nardi,
Pierre Curzi |
Docudrama |
|
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks |
Donald Brittain |
Maury Chaykin,
R.H. Thomson,
Gary Reineke,
Sean McCann,
Colin Fox |
Docudrama |
Toronto Festival of Festivals - Best Canadian Feature
|
The Canadian Conspiracy |
Robert Boyd |
|
Mockumentary |
|
The Care Bears Movie |
Arna Selznick |
voices
Mickey Rooney,
Jackie Burroughs,
Harry Dean Stanton |
Animation |
Golden Reel for top
box office
|
The Choice of a People (Le Choix d'un peuple) |
Hugues Mignault |
|
Documentary |
|
Crime Wave |
John Paizs |
John Paizs,
Eva Kovacs,
Neal Lawrie |
Crime drama |
Released on video as The Big Crime Wave
|
The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs) |
Claude Jutra |
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge,
Ariane Frédérique |
Drama |
Claude Jutra's final film; entered into the
14th Moscow International Film Festival
|
The Dead Father |
Guy Maddin |
|
Short drama |
|
Def-Con 4 |
Paul Donovan |
|
Science fiction |
|
Final Offer |
Sturla Gunnarsson,
Robert Collison |
|
Documentary |
|
Get a Job |
Brad Caslor |
|
Animated short |
Genie Award - Animated Short
|
Heavenly Bodies |
Lawrence Dane |
|
Drama |
|
Here Come the Littles |
Bernard Deyriès |
|
Animated |
International coproduction
|
Hold-Up |
Alexandre Arcady |
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Guy Marchand,
Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Kim Cattrall |
|
Canada-France co-production; later remade as
Quick Change with
Bill Murray and
Geena Davis.
|
Honeymoon (Lune de miel) |
Patrick Jamain |
|
Thriller |
|
Joshua Then and Now |
Ted Kotcheff |
James Woods,
Gabrielle Lazure,
Michael Sarrazin,
Alan Arkin,
Linda Sorenson |
Drama |
Screenplay by
Mordechai Richler based on his own novel
|
The Last Polka |
John Blanchard |
John Candy,
Eugene Levy |
Mockumentary |
|
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra |
Larry Weinstein |
|
Documentary |
|
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky |
Mort Ransen |
|
Documentary |
|
My American Cousin |
Sandy Wilson |
Margaret Langrick,
John Wildman,
Richard Donat,
Camille Henderson |
Coming-of-age drama |
|
90 Days |
Giles Walker |
Sam Grana,
Stefan Wodoslawsky,
Christine Pak,
Fernanda Tavares |
Comedy |
|
Night Magic |
Lewis Furey |
Nick Mancuso,
Carole Laure,
Stéphane Audran,
Jean Carmet,
Frank Augustyn |
Fantasy musical |
Music by
Lewis Furey and
Leonard Cohen;
Genie Award - Song
|
No Sad Songs |
Nik Sheehan |
Jim Black |
Documentary |
World's first feature documentary about
HIV/AIDS
|
One Magic Christmas |
Phillip Borsos |
Mary Steenburgen,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Elizabeth Harnois,
Gary Basaraba,
Arthur Hill,
Wayne Robson |
Holiday drama |
Genie Awards – Overall Sound, Sound Editing; made with U.S. financing
|
Overnight |
Jack Darcus |
Gale Garnett,
Alan Scarfe |
Drama |
|
The Peanut Butter Solution |
Michael Rubbo |
Mathew MacKay,
Siluck Saysanasy,
Alison Podbrey,
Michael Hogan |
Children's film |
Tales for All series
|
Porky's Revenge! |
James Komack |
Dan Monahan,
Wyatt Knight,
Mark Herrier,
Tony Ganios,
Kaki Hunter |
Teen comedy |
Made with U.S. financing
|
Ranch: The Alan Wood Ranch Project |
Steven DeNure,
Chris Lowry |
Alan Wood |
Documentary |
|
Samuel Lount |
Laurence Keane |
R. H. Thomson,
Linda Griffiths,
Booth Savage |
Historical drama |
|
Screwballs II |
Rafal Zielinski |
|
Sex comedy |
|
Summer Rain (Pluie d'été) |
François Dauteuil |
Paul Hébert,
Linda Sorgini,
Geneviève Rioux,
Martin Faucher |
Short drama |
|
Sylvia |
Michel Murray |
|
Animated short |
|
Tears Are Not Enough |
John Zaritsky |
Northern Lights |
Documentary |
|
Le Temps des bouffons |
Pierre Falardeau |
|
Documentary |
|
Terminal Choice |
Sheldon Larry |
Joe Spano,
Diane Venora,
David McCallum,
Ellen Barkin |
Thriller |
|
Tony de Peltrie |
Pierre Lachapelle, Philippe Bergeron, Pierre Robidoux,
Daniel Langlois |
|
Animated |
|
The War Boy |
Allan Eastman |
Helen Shaver,
Kenneth Welsh, Jason Hopley |
War drama film |
Canadian-Yugoslav co-production
|