This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1985:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Alley Cat (Le Matou) | Drama | Based on the novel by Yves Beauchemin; Genie Award - Musical Score | |||||||
| Anne of Green Gables | Kevin Sullivan | 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. | ||||||
| Documentary | Academy Award for Feature Documentary | ||||||||
| Bayo | Ed McNamara, Hugh Webster | Drama | |||||||
| The Big Snit | National Film Board animated short | Oscar nominee; Genie Award – Animated Short | |||||||
| The Blue Man | Horror | ||||||||
| Breaking All the Rules | Comedy | ||||||||
| Caffè Italia, Montréal | Docudrama | ||||||||
| Docudrama | Toronto Festival of Festivals - Best Canadian Feature | ||||||||
| The Canadian Conspiracy | Mockumentary | ||||||||
| The Care Bears Movie | Animation | Golden Reel for top box office | |||||||
| The Choice of a People (Le Choix d'un peuple) | Documentary | ||||||||
| Crime Wave | Crime drama | Released on video as The Big Crime Wave | |||||||
| The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs) | Drama | Claude Jutra's final film; entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | |||||||
| The Dead Father | Short drama | ||||||||
| Def-Con 4 | Science fiction | ||||||||
| Final Offer | Documentary | ||||||||
| Get a Job | Animated short | Genie Award - Animated Short | |||||||
| Heavenly Bodies | Drama | ||||||||
| Here Come the Littles | Animated | International coproduction | |||||||
| Hold-Up | Canada-France co-production; later remade as Quick Change with Bill Murray and Geena Davis. | ||||||||
| Honeymoon (Lune de miel) | Thriller | ||||||||
| Joshua Then and Now | Drama | Screenplay by Mordechai Richler based on his own novel | |||||||
| The Last Polka | Mockumentary | ||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||
| Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky | Documentary | ||||||||
| My American Cousin | Coming-of-age drama | ||||||||
| 90 Days | Comedy | ||||||||
| Night Magic | Fantasy musical | Music by Lewis Furey and Leonard Cohen; Genie Award - Song | |||||||
| No Sad Songs | Jim Black | Documentary | World's first feature documentary about HIV/AIDS | ||||||
| One Magic Christmas | Holiday drama | Genie Awards – Overall Sound, Sound Editing; made with U.S. financing | |||||||
| Overnight | Drama | ||||||||
| The Peanut Butter Solution | Children's film | Tales for All series | |||||||
| Porky's Revenge! | Teen comedy | Made with U.S. financing | |||||||
| Alan Wood | Documentary | ||||||||
| Samuel Lount | Laurence Keane | Historical drama | |||||||
| Screwballs II | Rafal Zielinski | Sex comedy | |||||||
| Summer Rain (Pluie d'été) | Short drama | ||||||||
| Sylvia | Michel Murray | Animated short | |||||||
| Tears Are Not Enough | Documentary | ||||||||
| Le Temps des bouffons | Documentary | ||||||||
| Terminal Choice | Thriller | ||||||||
| Tony de Peltrie | Animated | ||||||||
| The War Boy | Helen Shaver, Kenneth Welsh, Jason Hopley | War drama film | Canadian-Yugoslav co-production |