List of Canadian films of 1979
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1979:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Bear Island | Don Sharp | Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee | Action drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
Blue Winter (L'hiver bleu) | Docufiction | |||
Bravery in the Field | Giles Walker | Les Rubie, Matt Craven | Drama | |
The Brood | David Cronenberg | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle | Horror | |
Bye, See You Monday (Au revoir... à lundi) | Maurice Dugowson | Carole Laure, Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur | Romance | France-Canada co-production |
Certain Practices | Martin Lavut | Richard Monette, Alan Scarfe | Drama | |
Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) | Jean-Claude Lord | Lise Thouin, , Jean-Louis Roux, Colin Fox | Drama | |
City on Fire | Alvin Rakoff | Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
Crossbar | John Trent | Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, John Ireland, Kate Reid | Drama | CBC television film |
Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | Documentary | ||
Every Child | Derek Lamb | National Film Board animated short | Best Short Film at the Academy Awards | |
Every Person Is Guilty | Paul Almond | Ken Pogue, Lynne Griffin | Drama | |
Fast Company | David Cronenberg | William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Cedric Smith | Race track drama | [1] |
Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Will Sampson, Don Francks, | Family film | |
Getting Started | Richard Condie | NFB animated short | ||
Going the Distance | Paul Cowan | NFB documentary | Academy Award nominee | |
Heartbreak (L'arrache-cœur) | Mireille Dansereau | Louise Marleau, Françoise Faucher, Michel Mondie | Drama | |
Ida Makes a Movie | Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler | Drama | Pilot film for the Degrassi television franchise | |
Interview | Caroline Leaf | Animated short | ||
Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère) | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson | Drama | Canada-France coproduction |
King Solomon's Treasure | Alvin Rakoff | John Colicos | Adventure drama | |
The Log Driver's Waltz | John Weldon | Animated short | ||
A Man, a Woman, and a Bank | Noel Black | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams | Crime drama | |
Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch | Summer camp comedy | Bill Murray's first film |
Murder by Decree | Bob Clark | Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings | A Sherlock Holmes mystery based on the Jack the Ripper killings | Canada-U.K. co-production |
Nails | Phillip Borsos | Short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Awards – Live-Action Short, Non-Feature Musical Score | |
Paper Wheat | Albert Kish | |||
Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed | Donald Brittain | Documentary | ||
Plague | Ed Hunt | Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Celine Lomez | Science fiction | |
Revolution's Orphans | John N. Smith | Rudi Lipp, Bronwen Mantel | Short drama | |
Riel | Roy Moore | , Christopher Plummer | Historical drama | |
Romie-0 and Julie-8 | Clive A. Smith | Animated | ||
Running | Steven Hilliard Stern | Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy, Chuck Shamata | Melodrama | |
A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) | Anne Claire Poirier | , Germain Houde, Paul Savoie | Docudrama | |
Search and Destroy | William Fruet | Don Stroud, Perry King, Tisa Farrow, George Kennedy | Action drama | Made with U.S. financing[2] |
The Shape of Things to Come | George McCowan | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse | Science fiction | [3][4] |
Something's Rotten | Harvey Frost | Charlotte Blunt, Geoffrey Bowes, Christopher Barry, Cec Linder | Drama | |
Stone Cold Dead | George Mendeluk | |||
Summer's Children | Julius Kohanyi | Thomas Hauff, Michael Ironside, Don Francks | Drama | |
Title Shot | Les Rose | Tony Curtis, Richard Gabourie | Crime drama | |
To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | , , Aubert Pallascio | Drama | |
Us Two (À nous deux) | Claude Lelouch | Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Paul Préboist, , Émile Genest | Crime drama, romance | Canada-France co-production |
Wild Horse Hank | Eric Till | Drama | ||
The Wordsmith | Claude Jutra | Saul Rubinek, Janet Ward, Peter Boretski | Drama |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Item: - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ^ "Item: - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
- ^ "The Shape of Things to Come". Collections Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "The Shape of Things to Come". AllMovie. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
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