Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Agnes of God |
Norman Jewison |
Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly |
Drama based on the novel by John Pielmeier |
Made with U.S. financing |
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 Maude 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. |
Bayo |
Mort Ransen |
Ed McNamara, Hugh Webster |
Drama |
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The Big Snit |
Richard Condie |
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National Film Board animated short |
Oscar nominee; Genie Award – Animated Short |
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks |
Donald Brittain |
Maury Chaykin, R.H. Thomson, Gary Reineke, Sean McCann, Colin Fox |
Docudrama |
Toronto Film Festival - Best Canadian Feature |
The Care Bears Movie |
Arna Selznick |
voices Mickey Rooney, Jackie Burroughs, Harry Dean Stanton |
Animation |
Golden Reel for top box office |
Crime Wave |
John Paizs |
John Paizs, Eva Kovacs, Neal Lawrie |
Crime drama |
Released on video as The Big Crime Wave |
The Dame in Color |
Claude Jutra |
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Ariane Frédérique |
Drama |
Claude Jutra's final film; entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival |
Get a Job |
Brad Caslor |
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Animated short |
Genie Award - Animated Short |
Hold-Up |
Alexandre Arcady |
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Kim Cattrall |
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Canada-France co-production; later remade as Quick Change with Bill Murray and Geena Davis. |
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 Masculine Mystique |
John N. Smith |
Stefan Wodoslawsky, Sam Grana, Mort Ransen |
National Film Board feature |
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Le Matou (In English, The Alley Cat) |
Jean Beaudin |
Serge Dupire, Monique Spziani, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar |
Drama |
Based on the novel by Yves Beauchemin; Genie Award - Musical Score |
My American Cousin |
Sandy Wilson |
Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Camille Henderson |
Coming-of-age drama |
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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 |
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 |
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Paradise |
Ishu Patel |
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National Film Board animated short |
Academy Award– Animated Short; Berlin Film Festival – Silver Plaque for Cultural/ Documentary Film |
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 |
Samuel Lount |
Laurence Keane |
R. H. Thomson, Linda Griffiths, Booth Savage |
Historical drama |
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