# List of Canadian films of 1979

This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1979:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Arthur Miller on Home Ground | Harry Rasky | Arthur Miller | Documentary | |
| Bear Island | Don Sharp | Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee | Action drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Blue Winter (L'hiver bleu) | André Blanchard | | Docufiction | |
| Bravery in the Field | Giles Walker | Les Rubie, Matt Craven | Drama | |
| The Brood | David Cronenberg | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle | Horror | |
| Bye, See You Monday (Au revoir... à lundi) | Maurice Dugowson | Carole Laure, Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur | Romance | France-Canada co-production |
| Certain Practices | Martin Lavut | Richard Monette, Alan Scarfe | Drama | |
| Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) | Jean-Claude Lord | Lise Thouin, Jean Belzil-Gascon, Jean-Louis Roux, Colin Fox | Drama | |
| City on Fire | Alvin Rakoff | Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
| Crossbar | John Trent | Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, John Ireland, Kate Reid | Drama | CBC television film |
| Dieppe 1942 | Terence Macartney-Filgate | | Documentary | |
| Every Child | Derek Lamb | | National Film Board animated short | Best Short Film at the Academy Awards |
| Every Person Is Guilty | Paul Almond | Ken Pogue, Lynne Griffin | Drama | |
| Fast Company | David Cronenberg | William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Cedric Smith | Race track drama | |
| Fish Hawk | Donald Shebib | Will Sampson, Don Francks, Charles Fields | Family film | |
| Getting Started | Richard Condie | | NFB animated short | |
| Going the Distance | Paul Cowan | | NFB documentary | Academy Award nominee |
| Heartbreak (L'arrache-cœur) | Mireille Dansereau | Louise Marleau, Françoise Faucher, Michel Mondie | Drama | |
| Ida Makes a Movie | Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler | Zoe Newman | Drama | Pilot film for the Degrassi television franchise |
| Interview | Caroline Leaf | | Animated short | |
| Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère) | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson | Drama | Canada-France coproduction |
| King Solomon's Treasure | Alvin Rakoff | John Colicos | Adventure drama | |
| The Log Driver's Waltz | John Weldon | | Animated short | |
| A Man, a Woman, and a Bank | Noel Black | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams | Crime drama | |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch | Summer camp comedy | Bill Murray's first film |
| Murder by Decree | Bob Clark | Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings | A Sherlock Holmes mystery based on the Jack the Ripper killings | Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Nails | Phillip Borsos | | Short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Awards – Live-Action Short, Non-Feature Musical Score |
| The Only Game in Town | Ron Mann, David Fine | | Animated short | |
| Paper Wheat | Albert Kish | | | |
| Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed | Donald Brittain | | Documentary | |
| Plague | Ed Hunt | Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Celine Lomez | Science fiction | |
| Revolution's Orphans | John N. Smith | Rudi Lipp, Bronwen Mantel | Short drama | |
| Riel | Roy Moore | Raymond Cloutier, Christopher Plummer | Historical drama | |
| Romie-0 and Julie-8 | Clive A. Smith | | Animated | |
| Running | Steven Hilliard Stern | Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy, Chuck Shamata | Melodrama | |
| A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) | Anne Claire Poirier | Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie | Docudrama | |
| Search and Destroy | William Fruet | Don Stroud, Perry King, Tisa Farrow, George Kennedy | Action drama | Made with U.S. financing |
| The Shape of Things to Come | George McCowan | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse | Science fiction | |
| Something's Rotten | Harvey Frost | Charlotte Blunt, Geoffrey Bowes, Christopher Barry, Cec Linder | Drama | |
| Stone Cold Dead | George Mendeluk | | | |
| Summer's Children | Julius Kohanyi | Thomas Hauff, Michael Ironside, Don Francks | Drama | |
| Taking Chances | Robert Lang | | Short docudrama | |
| Title Shot | Les Rose | Tony Curtis, Richard Gabourie | Crime drama | |
| To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Yves Benoît, Louise Choquette, Aubert Pallascio | Drama | |
| Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound | Terry Burke | Peter Muir, Paul Amato | Short documentary | |
| Twice Upon a Time... (Il était deux fois) | Giles Walker | Michel Choquette, Wayne Robson | Satirical short | |
| Us Two (À nous deux) | Claude Lelouch | Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Paul Préboist, Bernard Lecoq, Émile Genest | Crime drama, romance | Canada-France co-production |
| Wild Horse Hank | Eric Till | | Drama | |
| The Wordsmith | Claude Jutra | Saul Rubinek, Janet Ward, Peter Boretski | Drama | |