This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1982:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After the Axe | James Douglas | National Film Board docudrama | Academy Award nominee | ||
| Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui | Documentary | ||||
| Baker Country U.S.A. | Drama | Made with U.S. financing | |||
| Beyond Forty (La Quarantaine) | National Film Board drama | ||||
| Big Meat Eater | Chris Windsor | Clarence Miller, George Dawson | Science fiction comedy, cult film | ||
| Brushstrokes | Sylvie Fefer | Animated short | |||
| By Design | Sara Botsford, Patty Duke Astin, Saul Rubinek, Clare Coulter | Drama | |||
| Class of 1984 | Action | ||||
| Comfort and Indifference (Le Confort et l'indifférence) | Documentary | ||||
| Cries from the Deep | Documentary | ||||
| A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) | Drama | ||||
| Deadly Companion (Double Negative) | Mystery | ||||
| Deadly Eyes | Horror | ||||
| Footsteps | Short drama | ||||
| Gala | Documentary | ||||
| The Great Chess Movie | National Film Board documentary | ||||
| The Grey Fox | Western | AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | |||
| Hard Feelings | Drama | ||||
| Harry Tracy, Desperado | Western | ||||
| The Hawk | Documentary | ||||
| Highpoint | Peter Carter | Drama | Stuntman Dar Robinson does the free fall from the top of the CN Tower at the end of the movie. | ||
| Humongous | Horror | ||||
| If You Could See What I Hear | 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 | National Film Board documentary | Oscar winner
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| The Incubus | Horror | ||||
| Killing 'em Softly | Drama | ||||
| Larose, Pierrot and Luce (Larose, Pierrot et la Luce) | Comedy-drama | ||||
| Latitude 55° | Drama | ||||
| Alan Simmonds | 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 | Drama | Genie Awards – Foreign Actress (O’Connor), Adapted Screenplay, Song | |||
| Murder by Phone | Drama | Made with U.S. financing | |||
| Odyssey in the Pacific (The Emperor of Peru) | Surreal children's film | Canada-France co-production; screenplay by Fernando Arrabal and Roger Lemelin | |||
| Paradise | Drama | ||||
| Poetry in Motion | Documentary | ||||
| A Portrait of Giselle | Documentary | ||||
| Red Eyes (Les Yeux rouges) | Crime drama | ||||
| Scandale | Comedy | ||||
| Scissere | Experimental feature | ||||
| The Shimmering Beast (La bête lumineuse) | National Film Board documentary | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Shocktrauma | Drama | ||||
| Split Image | Drama | PolyGram | |||
| Spring Fever | Drama | Made with U.S. financing | |||
| Sweet Lies and Loving Oaths (Doux aveux) | Hélène Loiselle, Marcel Sabourin, Genevieve Brassard | Drama | |||
| Ted Baryluk's Grocery | Documentary | ||||
| Visiting Hours | 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) | Drama | Cannes – International Critics Prize |