Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
125 Rooms of Comfort |
Patrick Loubert |
Tim Henry, Robert A. Silverman, Jackie Burroughs |
Drama |
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Alien Thunder |
Claude Fournier |
Donald Sutherland, Gordon Tootoosis, Chief Dan George, Kevin McCarthy, Jean Duceppe |
Drama |
|
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
Ted Kotcheff |
Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott, Joe Silver |
Comedy-drama coming-of-age story based on the novel by Mordecai Richler |
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay nominee – (Mordecai Richler & Lionel Chetwynd) |
Bingo |
Jean-Claude Lord |
Claude Michaud, Alexandra Stewart, Gilles Pelletier |
Political drama |
|
Black Christmas |
Bob Clark |
Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder |
Horror |
|
Child Under a Leaf |
George Bloomfield |
Dyan Cannon, Donald Pilon, Joseph Campanella, Al Waxman, Micheline Lanctôt |
Drama |
[1] |
Canadian Pacific |
David Rimmer |
|
Structural film |
[2] |
Deathdream also known as Dead of Night |
Bob Clark |
John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus |
Horror |
|
La Gammick |
Jacques Godbout |
Marc Legault, Dorothée Berryman, Gilbert Chémier |
Drama |
[3] |
The Hard Part Begins |
Paul Lynch |
Donnelly Rhodes, Nancy Belle Fuller, Paul Bradley |
Drama |
[4] |
Janis |
Seaton Findlay & Howard Alk |
|
Documentary |
From producer Budge Crawley, this is most complete film ever made about blues legend Janis Joplin; Canadian Film Award-Theatrical documentary[5] |
Montreal Main |
Frank Vitale |
Frank Vitale, Allan Moyle, Stephen Lack |
Drama |
|
Only God Knows |
Peter Pearson |
Gordon Pinsent, John Beck, Paul Hecht, Tisa Farrow, Toby Tarnow |
Drama |
[6] |
Les Ordres |
Michel Brault |
Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost |
Docudrama |
Michel Brault shared a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director in 1975. |
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend |
Caroline Leaf |
|
NFB animated short |
Academy Award nominee; Canadian Film Award – Animated Short, Non-Feature Overall Sound[7] |
Par le sang des autres |
Marc Simenon |
Bernard Blier, Denise Filiatrault, Yves Beneyton, Daniel Pilon, Mylène Demongeot |
Drama |
Canada-France co-production [8] |
A Quiet Day in Belfast |
Milad Bassada |
Barry Foster, Margot Kidder, Sean McCain |
Drama |
Canadian Film Award: Actress (Kidder) |
Satellites of the Sun |
Sidney Goldsmith |
|
NFB documentary |
[9] |
Seizure |
Oliver Stone |
Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Hervé Villechaize |
Drama |
Oliver Stone’s (Platoon) first feature [10] |
Sunday in the Country |
John Trent |
Ernest Borgnine, Michael J. Pollard, Hollis McLaren, Cec Linder, Al Waxman |
Drama |
[11] |
Sweet Movie |
Dusan Makavejev |
Carole Laure, Pierre Clementi, Anna Prucnal |
Political/Experimental feature |
France-Canada-West German co-production |
To Kill the King |
George McCowan |
Patrick O’Neal, Susan Tyrrell, Barry Morse, Lance Henriksen, Cec Linder |
Political thriller |
[12] |
Waiting for Fidel |
Michael Rubbo |
|
NFB documentary |
Its informal, director-as-star style influenced the films of Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. |
Why Rock the Boat? |
John Howe |
Stuart Gillard, Tiiu Leek, Henry Beckman, Patricia Gage |
Drama |
Canadian Film Award – Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Gillard), Supporting Actor (Beckman)[13] |
Wolfpen Principle |
Jack Darcus |
Janet Wright |
Drama |
[14] |