List of Canadian films of 1981
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1981:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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64,000,000 Years Ago | Bill Maylone | National Film Board animated short | ||
Alligator Shoes | Clay Borris | Clay Borris, Garry Borris, Ronalda Jones | Drama | |
The Amateur | Charles Jarrott | John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill | Drama | |
Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth | Norma Bailey, Robert Lower | Documentary | ||
A Choice of Two | John Howe | Alexandra Bastedo, Mavor Moore, Leslie Nielsen, Gary Reineke | Drama | |
Circle of Two | Jules Dassin | Richard Burton, Tatum O’Neal, Patricia Collins, Kate Reid | Drama | Dassin's last film; novel by |
Crac | Frédéric Back | Animated | ||
The Devil at Your Heels | Ken Carter | Documentary | ||
Dirty Tricks | Alvin Rakoff | Elliott Gould, Kate Jackson, Arthur Hill, Rich Little, John Juliani | Comedy | |
Elvis Gratton | Pierre Falardeau | Julien Poulin | Short | Genie Award – Theatrical Short |
Firebird 2015 AD | David Robertson | Darren McGavin, Doug McClure | Futuristic drama | |
First Winter | John N. Smith | National Film Board dramatic short | Academy Award nominee | |
Gas | Les Rose | Philip Akin, Susan Anspach | Comedy | |
Ghostkeeper | Jim Makichuk | Horror | ||
Happy Birthday to Me | J. Lee Thompson | Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker | Slasher film | |
Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs) | Francis Mankiewicz | Monique Spaziani, Paul Hébert, R. H. Thomson, | Drama | |
Heartaches | Donald Shebib | Margot Kidder. Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Winston Rekert | Drama | Genie Award – Screenplay, Actress (Kidder), Foreign Actress (Potts) |
Heartbreak High | Mark Warren | Comedy | ||
Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | Voices of Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Al Waxman | Feature animation; based on the French fantasy magazine of the same name | Genie Award – Sound, Golden Reel Award |
The High Country | Harvey Hart | Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl | Drama | |
The Hot Touch | Roger Vadim | Crime comedy | ||
Imagine the Sound | Ron Mann | Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon and Paul Bley | Feature documentary | A film that focuses on four musicians of the free jazz movement. |
Improper Channels | Eric Till | Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley | Comedy | Genie Award– Foreign Actor (Arkin) |
The Incubus | John Hough | Horror | ||
Just Another Missing Kid | John Zaritsky | Documentary | Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
Kings and Desperate Men | Alexis Kanner | Patrick McGoohan, Alexis Kanner, Margaret Trudeau | Drama | Featuring Margaret Trudeau, the ex-wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. |
Mr. Patman | John Guillermin | James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, Les Carlson | Drama | |
My Bloody Valentine | George Mihalka | , Don Francks, Cynthia Dale | Slasher film | Shot in Cape Breton Island coal mines |
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography | Bonnie Sherr Klein | National Film Board documentary | ||
Off the Wall | Derek May | Documentary | ||
The Olden Days Coat | Bruce Pittman | Megan Follows, Doris Petrie | Drama, Christmas | |
The Pit | Lew Lehman | Horror | ||
The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) | Gilles Carle | Émile Genest, Juliette Huot, Denise Filiatrault, Gabriel Arcand | Drama based on the novel by Roger Lemelin | |
Porky's | Bob Clark | Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Cattrall, Susan Clark | Teen comedy | Golden Reel Award; made with U.S. financing |
P4W: Prison for Women | Janis Cole & Holly Dale | Documentary | Genie Award – Theatrical Documentary | |
Quest for Fire | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Drama | ||
Rubberface | Glen Salzman, Rebecca Yates | Jim Carrey | Comedy | |
The Running Man | Donald Brittain | Chuck Shamata, , Colm Feore, Kate Trotter | Drama | |
Scanners | David Cronenberg | Michael Ironside, Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane | Horror/Sci-Fi | |
Silence of the North | Allan King | Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent | Drama | Genie Award – Cinematography |
Stade 81 | Jaco Van Dormael | Documentary | ||
Surfacing | Claude Jutra | Joseph Bottoms, R. H. Thomson, Kathleen Beller, Michael Ironside | Drama | Adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel |
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin | Janet Perlman | National Film Board animated short | Academy Award nominee | |
Threshold | Richard Pearce | Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham, Mavor Moore | Medical drama | Genie Award – Actor (Sutherland), Cinematography |
Ticket to Heaven | Ralph L. Thomas | Saul Rubinek, R. H. Thomson, Nick Mancuso, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Dale | Cult drama | |
Tulips | Rex Bromfield | Gabe Kaplan, Bernadette Peters, Henry Gibson, Al Waxman | Comedy, drama | |
Violet | Shelley Levinson | Didi Conn | Short drama | |
A War Story | Anne Wheeler | Docudrama | ||
Yesterday | Lawrence Kent | Vincent Van Patten, Claire Pimparé | Drama | |
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid | George Kaczender | Richard Harris, Jennifer Dale, George Peppard, Jeanne Moreau, Winston Rekert, Alexandra Stewart | Drama | |
Zea | , | Non-fiction short |
See also[]
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