| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Action: The October Crisis of 1970 | Robin Spry | | Documentary | |
| The Aviators of Hudson Strait | William Weintraub | | Documentary | |
| Between Friends | Don Shebib | Michael Parks, Bonnie Bedelia, Chuck Shamata, Henry Beckman | Crime drama | |
| Blue Blood | Andrew Sinclair | Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Meg Wynn Owen, Derek Jacobi | Drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Cannibal Girls | Ivan Reitman | Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Ronald Ulrich | Horror, comedy | |
| Come on Children | Allan King | | Documentary | |
| Coming Home | Bill Reid | | Documentary | |
| The Conquest | Jacques Gagné | Michelle Rossignol, Gilles Renaud | Romantic drama | |
| The Death of a Lumberjack | Gilles Carle | Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon | Drama | |
| A Delicate Balance | Tony Richardson | Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid | Drama | UK-US-Canada coproduction |
| Enuff Is Enuff | Denis Héroux | Dominique Michel, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche, Denise Proulx | Comedy | Canada-France co-production |
| The Family That Dwelt Apart | Yvon Mallette | | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee; Canadian Film Award – Animated Short |
| Goodbye Sousa | Tony Ianzelo | | Documentary | |
| Grierson | Roger Blais | | Documentary | |
| The Hard Part Begins | Paul Lynch | Donnelly Rhodes, Nancy Belle Fuller, Paul Bradley | Drama | |
| The Heavenly Bodies | Gilles Carle | Donald Pilon, Carole Laure, Micheline Lanctôt, Jacques Dufilho | Drama | |
| Hunger | Peter Foldès | | NFB animated short | First computer-animated film. |
| Kamouraska | Claude Jutra | Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Philippe Léotard, Camille Bernard | Historical drama, romance based on the novel by Anne Hébert. | Canada-France co-production |
| Keep It in the Family | Larry Kent | John Gavin, Patricia Gage | Drama | |
| The Last Betrothal | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Marthe Nadeau, J.-Léo Gagnon | Drama | |
| Life Times Nine | Paul Shapiro, Melissa Franklin, Robi Blumenstein, Jordon Hale, Ricky Clark, Celia Merkur, Kimmie Jensen, Andy File, Marilyn Becker | | Short | Produced by Pen Densham & John Watson; Academy Award nominee |
| The Neptune Factor | Daniel Petrie | Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon | Underwater adventure | |
| The Netsilik Eskimo Today | Gilles Blais | | Documentary | |
| O.K.... Laliberté | Marcel Carrière | Jacques Godin, Luce Guilbeault, Jean Lapointe | Comedy-drama | |
| Oh, If Only My Monk Would Want | Claude Pierson | Jean-Marie Proslier, Gilles Latulippe, Marcel Sabourin, Alice Arno, Darry Cowl | Sex comedy | |
| Ordinary Tenderness | Jacques Leduc | Esther Auger, Jocelyn Bérubé | Drama | |
| Paperback Hero | Peter Pearson | Keir Dullea, Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck | Comedy drama | |
| Pigs Are Seldom Clean | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | | Drama | |
| The Pyx | Harvey Hart | Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux | Thriller | |
| The Rainbow Boys | Gerald Potterton | Donald Pleasence, Kate Reid, Don Calfa | Comedy | |
| Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis | Robin Spry | | Documentary | |
| Réjeanne Padovani | Denys Arcand | Roger Lebel, Céline Lomez | Crime drama | Canadian Film Award – Screenplay |
| Sing a Country Song | Jack McCallum | Tex Ritter, Red Steagall, Billy Joe Shaver, Blake Emmons, Duane Eddy, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Chesnut, Ben Peters | Documentary | |
| Slipstream | David Acomba | Luke Askew, Patti Oatman, Eli Rill | Drama, romance | |
| The Sloane Affair | Douglas Jackson | Michael Kane, John Bethune, Cec Linder, Ron Hartmann | Docudrama | |
| Taureau | Clément Perron | André Melançon, Michèle Magny, Monique Lepage, Marcel Sabourin | Drama | |
| There's Always a Way to Find a Way | Denis Héroux | Willie Lamothe, Jean-Guy Moreau, Yvan Ducharme, Dominique Michel | Comedy | |
| U-Turn | George Kaczender | David Selby, Maud Adams, Gay Rowan, William Osler | Drama | |
| Ultimatum | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Jean-René Ouellet, Francine Morand, Lee J. Cobb, Franco Gasparri | Drama | |
| Unfinished Infonie | Roger Frappier | L'Infonie | Documentary | |
| Weapons and Men | André Melançon | André Cartier, Michel Forget, Marcel Sabourin | Docudrama | |
| You Are Warm, You Are Warm | Jean-Guy Noël | Gabriel Arcand, Guy L'Écuyer, Pierre Curzi | Drama | |