This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1971:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Apprentice (Fleur bleue) | Crime, drama | ||||||||
| Documentary | [1] | ||||||||
| The Christmas Martian (Le Martien de Noël) | Marcel Sabourin, Catherine Leduc | Children's film | Later incorporated into the Tales for All series.[2] | ||||||
| The Crowd Inside | Drama | [3] | |||||||
| Death of a Legend | NFB documentary | ||||||||
| Evolution | NFB animated short | Academy Award nominee | |||||||
| Face-Off | Drama | ||||||||
| Fortune and Men's Eyes | Drama | Canadian Film Award – Supporting Actor (Freedman), Editing | |||||||
| Foxy Lady | Alan Gordon, Eugene Levy, Nicole Morin | Comedy, romance | [4] | ||||||
| The Great Ordinary Movie (Le Grand Film ordinaire) | Experimental feature | [5] | |||||||
| Heads or Tails (Pile ou face) | Nathalie Naubert, Diane Arcand, Jean Coutu, Patricia Foster | Comedy | |||||||
| Hold on to Daddy's Ears (Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à papa) | Comedy | ||||||||
| Hot Stuff | NFB animated short | ||||||||
| How Death Came to Earth | NFB animated short | ||||||||
| I'm Going to Get You, Elliott Boy | Ed Forsyth | Prison drama | |||||||
| IXE-13 | Musical comedy | [6] | |||||||
| Madeleine Is... | Drama | First Canadian feature directed by a woman[7] | |||||||
| The Master Cats (Les chats bottés) | |||||||||
| A Matter of Life (Question de vie) | Drama | ||||||||
| The Megantic Outlaw | Drama | ||||||||
| The Men (Les Mâles) | Comedy | ||||||||
| Mon oncle Antoine | Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Monique Mercure | National Film Board drama | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||||||
| My Eye (Mon œil) | Drama | ||||||||
| The Neon Palace | Peter Rowe | Experimental feature | Canadian Film Award – Special Award[8] | ||||||
| North of Superior | Documentary | First IMAX short made for Ontario Place, the first purpose-built IMAX theatre in the world.[9] | |||||||
| The Only Thing You Know | Drama | Canadian Film Awards – Actress (Knox), Special Award[10] | |||||||
| Les Philharmonistes | NFB documentary | ||||||||
| Propaganda Message | NFB animated short | ||||||||
| The Proud Rider | Drama | ||||||||
| Proxyhawks | Jack Darcus, Susan Spencer, Edward Hutchings | Drama | |||||||
| La Région Centrale | |||||||||
| The Reincarnate | Horror | [11] [12] | |||||||
| Rip-Off | Drama | [13] [14] | |||||||
| Sex in the Snow (Après-ski) | Sex comedy | ||||||||
| Synchromy | NFB animated short | ||||||||
| This Is a Photograph | Documentary | ||||||||
| Those Damned Savages (Les Maudits sauvages) | Drama | ||||||||
| Tiki Tiki | 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) | Docudrama | A film about the life of Brother André[15] [16] |