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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1985 :
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
The Alley Cat (Le Matou)
Jean Beaudin
Serge Dupire , Monique Spaziani , Jean Carmet , Julien Guiomar
Drama
Based on the novel by Yves Beauchemin ; Genie Award - Musical Score
Anne of Green Gables
Kevin Sullivan
Megan Follows , Colleen Dewhurst , Richard Farnsworth , Patricia Hamilton , Schuyler Grant , Jackie Burroughs
CBC-TV miniseries
Based on the book by Lucy Maud Montgomery . When the two-part miniseries was broadcast in 1985, it attracted the largest single audience for a CBC-TV drama in the history of the network.
Bayo
Mort Ransen
Ed McNamara , Hugh Webster
Drama
The Big Snit
Richard Condie
National Film Board animated short
Oscar nominee; Genie Award – Animated Short
The Blue Man
George Mihalka
Horror
Breaking All the Rules
James Orr
Comedy
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
Donald Brittain
Maury Chaykin , R.H. Thomson , Gary Reineke , Sean McCann , Colin Fox
Docudrama
Toronto Festival of Festivals - Best Canadian Feature
The Canadian Conspiracy
Robert Boyd
Mockumentary
The Care Bears Movie
Arna Selznick
voices Mickey Rooney , Jackie Burroughs , Harry Dean Stanton
Animation
Golden Reel for top box office
Crime Wave
John Paizs
John Paizs , Eva Kovacs , Neal Lawrie
Crime drama
Released on video as The Big Crime Wave
The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs)
Claude Jutra
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge , Ariane Frédérique
Drama
Claude Jutra 's final film; entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival
The Dead Father
Guy Maddin
Short drama
Def-Con 4
Paul Donovan
Science fiction
Final Offer
Sturla Gunnarsson , Robert Collison
Documentary
Get a Job
Brad Caslor
Animated short
Genie Award - Animated Short
Heavenly Bodies
Lawrence Dane
Drama
Here Come the Littles
Bernard Deyriès
Animated
International coproduction
Hold-Up
Alexandre Arcady
Jean-Paul Belmondo , Guy Marchand , Jean-Pierre Marielle , Kim Cattrall
Canada-France co-production; later remade as Quick Change with Bill Murray and Geena Davis .
Honeymoon (Lune de miel)
Patrick Jamain
Thriller
Joshua Then and Now
Ted Kotcheff
James Woods , Gabrielle Lazure , Michael Sarrazin , Alan Arkin , Linda Sorenson
Drama
Screenplay by Mordechai Richler based on his own novel
The Last Polka
John Blanchard
John Candy , Eugene Levy
Mockumentary
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
Larry Weinstein
Documentary
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky
Mort Ransen
Documentary
My American Cousin
Sandy Wilson
Margaret Langrick , John Wildman , Richard Donat , Camille Henderson
Coming-of-age drama
90 Days
Giles Walker
Sam Grana , Stefan Wodoslawsky , Christine Pak , Fernanda Tavares
Comedy
Night Magic
Lewis Furey
Nick Mancuso , Carole Laure , Stéphane Audran , Jean Carmet , Frank Augustyn
Fantasy musical
Music by Lewis Furey and Leonard Cohen ; Genie Award - Song
No Sad Songs
Nik Sheehan
Jim Black
Documentary
World's first feature documentary about HIV/AIDS
One Magic Christmas
Phillip Borsos
Mary Steenburgen , Harry Dean Stanton , Elizabeth Harnois , Gary Basaraba , Arthur Hill , Wayne Robson
Holiday drama
Genie Awards – Overall Sound, Sound Editing; made with U.S. financing
Overnight
Jack Darcus
Gale Garnett , Alan Scarfe
Drama
The Peanut Butter Solution
Michael Rubbo
Mathew MacKay , Siluck Saysanasy , Alison Podbrey , Michael Hogan
Children's film
Tales for All series
Porky's Revenge!
James Komack
Dan Monahan , Wyatt Knight , Mark Herrier , Tony Ganios , Kaki Hunter
Teen comedy
Made with U.S. financing
Samuel Lount
Laurence Keane
R. H. Thomson , Linda Griffiths , Booth Savage
Historical drama
Screwballs II
Rafal Zielinski
Sex comedy
Tears Are Not Enough
John Zaritsky
Northern Lights
Documentary
Le Temps des bouffons
Pierre Falardeau
Documentary
Tony de Peltrie
Pierre Lachapelle, Philippe Bergeron, Pierre Robidoux, Daniel Langlois
Animated
See also