# List of Canadian films of the 1950s

This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1950 |||||
| Forbidden Journey | Richard J. Jarvis | Jan Rubeš, Susan Douglas, John Colicos | Drama | |
| Fugitive from Montreal (L'inconnu de Montréal) | Jean Devaivre | René Dary, Patricia Roc, Paul Dupuis, Albert Miller | Drama | |
| Lights of My City (Les Lumières de ma ville) | Jean-Yves Bigras | Huguette Oligny, Monique Leyrac | Drama | |
| Séraphin | Paul Gury | Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost | Drama | |
| 1951 |||||
| Around Is Around & Now Is the Time | Norman McLaren | | NFB experimental shorts | An early experimentation in 3D by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart; CFA - Special award |
| The Fight: Science against Cancer | Morten Parker | | NFB animated short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject); Canadian Film Award - Special Award |
| Neighbours | Norman McLaren | Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur | NFB short made by pixilation technique | Academy Award Short Subject (One-reel) nominee and Best Documentary (Short Subject) winner; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork |
| Newfoundland Scene | F. R. Crawley | Frank Peddie | Documentary | |
| Royal Journey | David Bairstow, Gudrun Parker, Roger Blais | | NFB documentary | |
| 1952 |||||
| The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux) | Bernard Devlin, Jean Palardy | | Drama | |
| The Immortal Scoundrel (Étienne Brûlé, gibier de potence) | Melburn Turner | Paul Dupuis, Jacques Auger, Ginette Letondal | Drama | The film was shot in both French and English, and is credited as being the first Canadian feature in colour. |
| Little Aurore's Tragedy (La petite Aurore, l’enfant martyre) | Jean-Yves Bigras | Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell | Drama | |
| The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) | René Delacroix | Gérard Barbeau, Nicole Germain, Jean Coutu, Juliette Béliveau | Drama | |
| Opera School | Gudrun Parker | Marguerite Gignac | Docudrama | |
| The Romance of Transportation in Canada | Colin Low | | NFB animated short | The received a special BAFTA Award, the Short Film Palme d'Or for animation at Cannes Film Festival, as well as an Academy Award for Animated Short Film nomination. |
| The Settler (L'Abatis) | Bernard Devlin, Raymond Garceau | | Short documentary | |
| 1953 |||||
| Farewell Oak Street | Grant McLean | Kate Reid, Eric Clavering | Docudrama | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short |
| Herring Hunt | Julian Biggs | | NFB short | Academy Award nominee |
| A Mother's Heart (Cœur de maman) | René Delacroix | Jeanne Demons, Paul Desmarteaux, Jean-Paul Dugas, Paul Guèvremont | Drama | |
| Tit-Coq | René Delacroix & Gratien Gélinas | Gratien Gélinas, Clément Latour, Monique Miller, Denise Pelletier, Paul Dupuis | Drama based on the play by Gélinas | |
| 1954 |||||
| Corral | Colin Low | | NFB short | |
| The Seasons | Christopher Chapman | | Short documentary | |
| The Stratford Adventure | Morten Parker | Narrated by John Drainie | NFB documentary | This was named Film of the Year at the Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature |
| 1955 |||||
| Blinkity Blank | Norman McLaren | | NFB animated short | It received the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival |
| 1956 |||||
| Gold | Colin Low | | Documentary short | |
| Rythmetic | Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart | | NFB animated short | |
| Skidrow | Allan King | | CBC documentary | Canadian Film Awards – TV Information |
| Le Village enchanté | Marcel Racicot & Réal Racicot | | Animated | Canada's first animated feature. |
| 1957 |||||
| A Chairy Tale | Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra | Claude Jutra | NFB short Pixilation | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action) |
| City of Gold | Colin Low & Wolf Koenig | | Klondike Gold Rush; Documentary | Winner of the Palme d'or for best short film at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects |
| Legend of the Raven | Judith Crawley | | Documentary | Canadian Film Awards – Arts and Experimental |
| Oedipus Rex | Tyrone Guthrie | Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, William Hutt, Douglas Rain | | Classic drama from the original Stratford Festival stage version based on a translation by W. B. Yeats |
| 1958 |||||
| Les brûlés | Bernard Devlin | Jean Lajeunesse, J. Léo Gagnon, Félix Leclerc | Drama | |
| A Dangerous Age | Sidney J. Furie | Ben Piazza, Anne Pearson, Kate Reid, Austin Willis, Barbara Hamilton | Drama | |
| Flaming Frontier | Sam Newfield | Bruce Bennett, Jim Davis, Cec Linder, Larry Solway | Western | A low-budget B-Western shot in Los Angeles and Calgary and made with Canadian financing. |
| Ivy League Killers | William Davidson | Don Borisenko, Don Francks, Barbara Bricker | Drama | |
| The Living Stone | John Feeney | | NFB documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. |
| Money Minters | Ted De Wit | | Documentary | |
| Now That April's Here | William Davidson, Norman Klenman | Don Borisenko, Judy Welch, John Drainie, Katherine Blake, Tony Grey, Walter Massey | Drama | |
| The Quest | Stanley Jackson | Leo Ciceri, Dennis Stanway, Norman Ettlinger | Short drama | |
| Les Raquetteurs | Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx | | NFB documentary | |
| The Tall Country | Osmond Borradaile | | Documentary | |
| Wolf Dog | Sam Newfield | Ben Piazza, Austin Willis | Drama | |
| 1959 |||||
| The Back-Breaking Leaf | Terence Macartney-Filgate | | NFB documentary | Part of the groundbreaking NFB Candid Eye series shown on the CBC-TV (1958–61); Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or for Television Documentary |
| The Bloody Brood | Julian Roffman | Jack Betts, Barbara Lord, Peter Falk, Robert Christie | Drama | |
| A Cool Sound from Hell | Sidney J. Furie | Anthony Ray, Carolyn D’Annibale, Madeline Kronby | Drama | |
| Glenn Gould: On/Off the Record | Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor | | NFB documentary | Part of the Candid Eye series |