This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1971:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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The Apprentice (Fleur bleue) | Larry Kent | Steve Fiset, Susan Sarandon, Céline Bernier | Crime, drama | |
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family | Morley Markson | Documentary | [1] | |
The Christmas Martian (Le Martien de Noël) | Bernard Gosselin | Marcel Sabourin, Catherine Leduc | Children's film | Later incorporated into the Tales for All series.[2] |
The Crowd Inside | Al Waxman | Geneviève Robert, Alan Dean, Patricia Collins | Drama | [3] |
Death of a Legend | Bill Mason | NFB documentary | ||
Evolution | Michael Mills | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee | |
Face-Off | George McCowan | Trudy Young, Art Hindle, John Vernon | Drama | |
Fortune and Men's Eyes | Harvey Hart | Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman | Drama | Canadian Film Award – Supporting Actor (Freedman), Editing |
Foxy Lady | Ivan Reitman | Alan Gordon, Eugene Levy, Nicole Morin | Comedy, romance | [4] |
The Great Ordinary Movie (Le Grand Film ordinaire) | Roger Frappier | Raymond Cloutier, Paule Baillargeon, Claude Laroche | Experimental feature | [5] |
Hold on to Daddy's Ears (Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à papa) | Jean Bissonnette | Dominique Michel, Yvon Deschamps, Dabe Broadfoot | Comedy | |
Hot Stuff | Zlatko Grgic | NFB animated short | ||
How Death Came to Earth | Ishu Patel | NFB animated short | ||
I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy | Ed Forsyth | Ross Stephanson, Maureen McGill, Abdullah the Butcher | Prison drama | |
IXE-13 | Jacques Godbout | André Dubois, Louise Forestier, Serge Grenier, Marc Laurendeau | Musical comedy | [6] |
Madeleine Is... | Sylvia Spring | Nicola Lipman, John Juliani | Drama | First Canadian feature directed by a woman[7] |
The Master Cats (Les chats bottés) | Claude Fournier | |||
A Matter of Life (Question de vie) | André Théberge | Josée Beauregard, Frédérique Collin, Valda Dalton | Drama | |
The Megantic Outlaw | Ron Kelly | Gary McKeehan, Sydney Brown, Jane Mallett, Carole Lazare, Lloyd Bochner | Drama | |
The Men (Les Mâles) | Gilles Carle | Donald Pilon, René Blouin, Andrée Pelletier | Comedy | |
Mon oncle Antoine | Claude Jutra | Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Monique Mercure | National Film Board drama | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork |
My Eye (Mon œil) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Raôul Duguay | Drama | |
The Neon Palace | Peter Rowe | Judy Soroka, Sweet Daddy Siki | Experimental feature | Canadian Film Award – Special Award[8] |
North of Superior | Graeme Ferguson | Documentary | First IMAX short made for Ontario Place, the first purpose-built IMAX theatre in the world.[9] | |
The Only Thing You Know | Clarke Mackey | Ann Knox, John Denos, Allan Royal | Drama | Canadian Film Awards – Actress (Knox), Special Award[10] |
Les Philharmonistes | Yves Leduc | NFB documentary | ||
Propaganda Message | Barrie Nelson | NFB animated short | ||
The Proud Rider | Walter Baczynsky | Michael Bell, Scott Colomby, Art Hindle | Drama | |
Proxyhawks | Jack Darcus | Jack Darcus, Susan Spencer, Edward Hutchings | Drama | |
La Région Centrale | Michael Snow | Structural film | ||
The Reincarnate | Don Haldane | Jack Creley, Jay Reynolds, Trudy Young | Horror | [11][12] |
Rip-Off | Donald Shebib | Don Scardino, Ralph Endersby, Michael Kukulewich | Drama | [13][14] |
Synchromy | Norman McLaren | NFB animated short | ||
This Is a Photograph | Albert Kish | Documentary | ||
Those Damned Savages (Les Maudits sauvages) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Drama | ||
Tiki Tiki | Gerald Potterton | Comedy | Original animation intercut with recontextualized footage from the 1966 Russian live action film Aybolit-66. | |
We Are Far from the Sun (On est loin du soleil) | Jacques Leduc | Marthe Nadeau, J.-Léo Gagnon | Docudrama | A film about the life of Brother André[15][16] |
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2019) |