This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1978:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afterlife | NFB animated short | Canadian Film Award – Animated Short; Annecy International Animated Film Festival – Grand Prize[1] | |||||||
| All Nothing (Tout rien) | Animated short | ||||||||
| Angela | Drama | ||||||||
| The Backstreet Six (Comme les six doigts de la main) | Comedy | ||||||||
| Bears and Man | Bill Schmalz | Documentary | |||||||
| Blackout | Eddy Matalon | Thriller | |||||||
| Blood and Guts | Sports drama | ||||||||
| Blood Relatives | One of three Canadian films by French New Wave director, Claude Chabrol | ||||||||
| The Bronswik Affair (L'Affaire Bronswik) | Animated mockumentary | ||||||||
| The Devil and Daniel Mouse | Animated | ||||||||
| Drying Up the Streets | Crime drama | [2] | |||||||
| Fields of Endless Day | Documentary | ||||||||
| The Guardian Angel (L'Ange gardien) | Margaret Trudeau, André Falcon, Francis Lemaire | Romantic comedy | |||||||
| Harness the Wind | Short documentary | ||||||||
| Healing | Documentary | ||||||||
| High-Ballin' | Comedy | ||||||||
| Home to Stay | Drama | ||||||||
| I, Maureen | Janine Manatis | Drama | |||||||
| I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses | Murray Markowitz | Mystery | |||||||
| In Praise of Older Women | |||||||||
| Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Children's | ||||||||
| The Last Pogo | Documentary | ||||||||
| The Manitou | Horror | ||||||||
| Marie-Anne | Martin Walters | Historical drama | |||||||
| One Night Stand | Canadian Film Award – Non-Feature Actor (Craver), Non-Feature Actress (Jaffe), Non-Feature Musical Score[3] | ||||||||
| Power Play | Political drama | Canadian Film Award – Screenplay; Canada-U.K. co-production | |||||||
| Documentary | Genie Award winner for Best Short Documentary | ||||||||
| Running Time | Drama | [4] | |||||||
| The Silent Partner | Crime, thriller | ||||||||
| Song of the Paddle | NFB short | Canadian Film Award – Non-Feature Direction, Non-Feature Cinematography, Non-Feature Sound[5] | |||||||
| Special Delivery | NFB animated short | Academy Award for animated short | |||||||
| The Third Walker | Drama | ||||||||
| Three Card Monte | |||||||||
| Tomorrow Never Comes | Crime drama | Canada-U.K. co-production | |||||||
| Two Solitudes | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Stacy Keach, Gloria Carlin, Chris Wiggins, Claude Jutra | ||||||||
| Tyler | Drama | ||||||||
| Violette Nozière | Crime drama based on a true story | Canada-France co-production directed by Claude Chabrol | |||||||
| Why Me? | Animated | ||||||||
| Xenogenesis | Science fiction |