# List of Canadian films of 1971

This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1971:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Apprentice (Fleur bleue) | Larry Kent | Steve Fiset, Susan Sarandon, Céline Bernier | Crime, drama | |
| Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family | Morley Markson | | Documentary | |
| The Christmas Martian (Le Martien de Noël) | Bernard Gosselin | Marcel Sabourin, Catherine Leduc | Children's film | Later incorporated into the Tales for All series. |
| The Crowd Inside | Al Waxman | Geneviève Robert, Alan Dean, Patricia Collins | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| The Great Ordinary Movie (Le Grand Film ordinaire) | Roger Frappier | Raymond Cloutier, Paule Baillargeon, Claude Laroche | Experimental feature | |
| Heads or Tails (Pile ou face) | Roger Fournier | Nathalie Naubert, Diane Arcand, Jean Coutu, Patricia Foster | Comedy | |
| 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 | |
| Madeleine Is... | Sylvia Spring | Nicola Lipman, John Juliani | Drama | First Canadian feature directed by a woman |
| 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 |
| North of Superior | Graeme Ferguson | | Documentary | First IMAX short made for Ontario Place, the first purpose-built IMAX theatre in the world. |
| The Only Thing You Know | Clarke Mackey | Ann Knox, John Denos, Allan Royal | Drama | Canadian Film Awards – Actress (Knox), Special Award |
| 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 | |
| Rip-Off | Donald Shebib | Don Scardino, Ralph Endersby, Michael Kukulewich | Drama | |
| Sex in the Snow (Après-ski) | Roger Cardinal | Daniel Pilon, Céline Lomez | Sex comedy | |
| 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 |