This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1979:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Island | Action drama | Canada-U.K. co-production | |||||||
| Blue Winter (L'hiver bleu) | Docufiction | ||||||||
| Bravery in the Field | Drama | ||||||||
| The Brood | Horror | ||||||||
| Bye, See You Monday (Au revoir... à lundi) | Romance | France-Canada co-production | |||||||
| Certain Practices | Drama | ||||||||
| Chocolate Eclair (Éclair au chocolat) | Drama | ||||||||
| City on Fire | Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters | Drama | Made with U.S. financing | ||||||
| Crossbar | John Trent | Drama | CBC television film | ||||||
| Dieppe 1942 | Documentary | ||||||||
| Every Child | National Film Board animated short | Best Short Film at the Academy Awards | |||||||
| Every Person Is Guilty | Drama | ||||||||
| Fast Company | Race track drama | [1] | |||||||
| Fish Hawk | Will Sampson, Don Francks, Charles Fields | Family film | |||||||
| Getting Started | NFB animated short | ||||||||
| Going the Distance | NFB documentary | Academy Award nominee | |||||||
| Heartbreak (L'arrache-cœur) | Louise Marleau, Françoise Faucher, Michel Mondie | Drama | |||||||
| Ida Makes a Movie | Drama | Pilot film for the Degrassi television franchise | |||||||
| Interview | Animated short | ||||||||
| Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère) | Drama | Canada-France coproduction | |||||||
| King Solomon's Treasure | Adventure drama | ||||||||
| The Log Driver's Waltz | Animated short | ||||||||
| A Man, a Woman, and a Bank | Crime drama | ||||||||
| Meatballs | Summer camp comedy | Bill Murray's first film | |||||||
| Murder by Decree | Bob Clark | Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings | A Sherlock Holmes mystery based on the Jack the Ripper killings | Canada-U.K. co-production | |||||
| Nails | Short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Awards – Live-Action Short, Non-Feature Musical Score | |||||||
| The Only Game in Town | Animated short | ||||||||
| Paper Wheat | |||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||
| Plague | Science fiction | ||||||||
| Revolution's Orphans | Short drama | ||||||||
| Riel | Roy Moore | Historical drama | |||||||
| Romie-0 and Julie-8 | Animated | ||||||||
| Running | Melodrama | ||||||||
| A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) | Docudrama | ||||||||
| Search and Destroy | Action drama | Made with U.S. financing[2] | |||||||
| The Shape of Things to Come | Science fiction | [3] [4] | |||||||
| Something's Rotten | Harvey Frost | Drama | |||||||
| Stone Cold Dead | |||||||||
| Summer's Children | Julius Kohanyi | Drama | |||||||
| Title Shot | Crime drama | ||||||||
| To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) | Drama | ||||||||
| Terry Burke | Peter Muir, Paul Amato | Short documentary | |||||||
| Twice Upon a Time... (Il était deux fois) | Satirical short | ||||||||
| Us Two (À nous deux) | Crime drama, romance | Canada-France co-production | |||||||
| Wild Horse Hank | Drama | ||||||||
| The Wordsmith | Drama |