| 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 Maud 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 | |
| The Big Snit | Richard Condie | | 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 Festival of Festivals - 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 | | Animated short | Genie Award - Animated Short |
| Hold-Up | Alexandre Arcady | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Kim Cattrall | | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| No Sad Songs | Nik Sheehan | | Documentary | World's first feature documentary about HIV/AIDS |
| 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 | |
| Paradise | Ishu Patel | | 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 | |
