title: List of Canadian films of 1982
text: # List of Canadian films of 1982
  
  This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1982:
  
  | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | After the Axe | Sturla Gunnarsson | James Douglas | National Film Board docudrama | Academy Award nominee |
  | Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui | | | Documentary | |
  | Baker Country U.S.A. | William Fruet | Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
  | Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) | Anne Claire Poirier | Monique Mercure, Jacques Godin | National Film Board drama | |
  | Big Meat Eater | Chris Windsor | Clarence Miller, George Dawson | Science fiction comedy, cult film | |
  | By Design | Claude Jutra | Sara Botsford, Patty Duke Astin, Saul Rubinek, Clare Coulter | Drama | |
  | Class of 1984 | Mark L. Lester | Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Michael J. Fox | Action | |
  | Comfort and Indifference (Le Confort et l'indifférence) | Denys Arcand | | Documentary | |
  | Cries from the Deep | Jacques Gagné | | Documentary | |
  | A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) | Robert Ménard | Jean Yanne, Gilles Renaud, Monique Mercure | Drama | |
  | Deadly Companion (Double Negative) | George Bloomfield | John Candy, Anthony Perkins | Mystery | |
  | Deadly Eyes | Robert Clouse | Sam Bloom, Scatman Crothers, Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Lisa Langlois, Lesleh Donaldson | Horror | |
  | Gala | Michael McKennirey, John N. Smith | | Documentary | |
  | The Great Chess Movie | Gilles Carle, Camille Coudrai | | National Film Board documentary | |
  | The Grey Fox | Phillip Borsos | Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke | Western | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork |
  | Hard Feelings | Daryl Duke | Carl Marotte, Charlaine Woodard | Drama | |
  | Harry Tracy, Desperado | William Graham | Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot | Western | |
  | Highpoint | Peter Carter | Christopher Plummer, Beverly D'Angelo, Kate Reid, Maury Chaykin, Saul Rubinek, Peter Donat | Drama | Stuntman Dar Robinson does the free fall from the top of the CN Tower at the end of the movie. |
  | Humongous | Paul Lynch | Janet Julian, David Wallace | Horror | |
  | If You Could See What I Hear | Eric Till | Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Shari Belafonte-Harper, Douglas Campbell | Bio-drama | Based on the biography of Tom Sullivan, a blind American singer/ songwriter and athlete; Genie Award - Supporting Actor (Thomson) |
  | If You Love This Planet | Terri Nash | Helen Caldicott | National Film Board documentary | Oscar winner; labeled subversive by U.S. gov. |
  | The Incubus | John Hough | John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes | Horror | |
  | Killing 'em Softly | Max Fischer | Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, Clark Johnson | Drama | |
  | Latitude 55° | John Juliani | August Schellenberg, Andrée Pelletier | Drama | |
  | Liona Boyd: First Lady of the Guitar | Alan Simmonds | Liona Boyd, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Eli Kassner, Liberace | Documentary | Made for TV |
  | Luc or His Share of Things (Luc ou la part des choses) | Michel Audy | Pierre Normandin, Éric Boulay, Alain Thiffault | Drama | |
  | Melanie | Rex Bromfield | Burton Cummings, Glynnis O'Connor | Drama | Genie Awards – Foreign Actress (O’Connor), Adapted Screenplay, Song |
  | Murder by Phone | Michael Anderson | Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Barry Morse | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
  | Odyssey in the Pacific (The Emperor of Peru) | Fernando Arrabal | Mickey Rooney, Anick, Johnathan Starr, Monique Mercure | Surreal children's film | Canada-France co-production; screenplay by Fernando Arrabal and Roger Lemelin |
  | Paradise | Stuart Gillard | Willie Ames, Phoebe Cates, Tuvia Tavi | Drama | |
  | Poetry in Motion | Ron Mann | Including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits | Documentary | |
  | A Portrait of Giselle | Muriel Balash | | Documentary | |
  | Scandale | George Mihalka | Sophie Lorain, Gilbert Comptois, Nanette Workman | Comedy | |
  | Scissere | Peter Mettler | Greg Krantz | Experimental feature | |
  | The Shimmering Beast (La bête lumineuse) | Pierre Perrault | | National Film Board documentary | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
  | Shocktrauma | Eric Till | | Drama | |
  | Split Image | Ted Kotcheff | Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda | Drama | PolyGram |
  | Spring Fever | Joseph Scanlan | Carling Bassett, Susan Anton, Frank Converse, Jessica Walter, Stephen Young | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
  | Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | Fernand Dansereau | Hélène Loiselle, Marcel Sabourin, Genevieve Brassard | Drama | |
  | Ted Baryluk's Grocery | John Paskievich, Michael Mirus | | Documentary | |
  | Visiting Hours | Jean-Claude Lord | Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Lenore Zann | Thriller | Distributed in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox, this low-budget movie was a box office success and launched Michael Ironside’s career Stateside. |
  | Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs sauvages) | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Marthe Nadeau, Michèle Magny, Pierre Curzi | Drama | Cannes – International Critics Prize |
  | Les Yeux rouges ou les vérité accidentelles | Yves Simoneau | Marie Tifo, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Pierre Curzi | Crime drama | |
  