| 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
|
