| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Baker Country U.S.A. |
William Fruet |
Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell |
Drama |
Made with U.S. financing |
| La bête lumineuse (in English, The Shimmering Beast) |
Pierre Perrault |
|
National Film Board documentary |
Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
| 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 |
|
| Le confort et l'indifférence |
Denys Arcand |
Jean-Pierre Ronfard |
National Film Board documentary |
Analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum |
| Crac! |
Frédéric Back |
|
Animated short |
Oscar winner |
| A Day in a Taxi |
Robert Ménard |
Jean Yanne, Gilles Renaud, Monique Mercure |
Drama |
|
| Deadly Companion also known as 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 |
|
| Les Fleurs sauvages (in English, Wild Flowers) |
Jean Pierre Lefebvre |
Marthe Nadeau, Michèle Magny, Pierre Curzi |
Drama |
Cannes – International Critics Prize |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave |
David Acomba |
Sneezy Waters |
Filmed performance |
Based on the play by Maynard Collins |
| Hard Feelings |
Daryl Duke |
Carl Marotte, Charlaine Woodard |
Drama |
|
| Harry Tracy, Desperado |
William Graham |
Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot |
Western |
|
| 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) |
| Incubus |
John Hough |
John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes |
Horror |
|
| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss |
Paul Cowan |
Eric Peterson |
National Film Board docudrama |
Based partly on John Gray’s irreverent stage play Billy Bishop Goes to War. |
| 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 |
| 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 also known as 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 |
| Poetry in Motion |
Ron Mann |
Including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits |
Documentary |
|
| Paradise |
Stuart Gillard |
Willie Ames, Phoebe Cates, Tuvia Tavi |
Drama |
|
| La Quarantaine |
Anne Claire Poirier |
Monique Mercure, Jacques Godin |
National Film Board drama |
|
| Quest for Fire |
Jean-Jacques Annaud |
Rae Dawn Chong, Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi |
Stone Age drama; language by Anthony Burgess; advisor Desmond Morris |
A Canada/France co-production made with U.S. financing; Academy Award – Makeup; Genie Awards – Actress (Chong), Editing, Sound; BAFTA – Makeup |
| Scissere |
Peter Mettler |
Greg Krantz |
Experimental feature |
|
| 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 |
|
| Visiting Hours |
Jean-Claude Lord |
Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Paul, 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. |
| Les Yeux rouges ou les vérité accidentelles |
Yves Simoneau |
Marie Tifo, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Pierre Curzi |
Crime drama |
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