This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1996:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
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| The Best Bad Thing | Drama | Canada-Japan co-production made for TV | |||||||
| The Boys Club | Drama | ||||||||
| Bubbles Galore | Sex comedy | ||||||||
| The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati | Comedy | ||||||||
| Cosmos | |||||||||
| Crash | Golden Reel Award
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| A Cry in the Night (Le Cri de la nuit) | Drama | ||||||||
| Dinner for Two | Animated short | ||||||||
| The Escort (L'Escorte) | Paul-Antoine Taillefer, Éric Cabana, Robin Aubert, Patrice Coquereau | Comedy-drama | |||||||
| Fire | Banned in India; first in the Fire, Earth, Water trilogy by director Deepa Mehta; Canada-India co-production | ||||||||
| Hard Core Logo | Genie Award - Song | ||||||||
| Hollow Point | Action | ||||||||
| How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels | Animated short | ||||||||
| The Human Plant (La Plante humaine) | Animation | ||||||||
| Hustler White | Bruce LaBruce, Alex Austin | Gay drama | Canada-German co-production | ||||||
| The Ideal Man (L’Homme idéal) | Comedy, drama | Genie Award - Song | |||||||
| Jim Loves Jack | Jim Egan, Jack Nesbit | Documentary | |||||||
| Joe's So Mean to Josephine | |||||||||
| Karmina | |||||||||
| Spin-off from the TV show made with U.S. financing | |||||||||
| Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | Drama | Genie Award - Actress (Parker) | ||||||
| Letters from Home | Short | Toronto International Film Festival – Best Canadian Short | |||||||
| Lilies | |||||||||
| Lodela | Dance, documentary | ||||||||
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Drama based on the Eugene O'Neill play | Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival | |||||||
| Love Me, Love Me Not (J'aime j'aime pas) | Drama | ||||||||
| Lulu | Drama | Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival | |||||||
| Matilda | Family | based on Roald Dahl history; U.S.-Canada co-production | |||||||
| Mistaken Identity (Erreur sur la personne) | Gilles Noël | Thriller | |||||||
| Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) | Documentary | ||||||||
| My Life Is a River (Une vie comme rivière) | Documentary | ||||||||
| Never Too Late | Comedy, drama | ||||||||
| Night of the Flood (La nuit du déluge) | Drama | ||||||||
| Not Me! (Sous-sol) | Drama | Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year | |||||||
| The Old Lady and the Pigeons | Canada-U.K.-France-Belgium co-production | ||||||||
| Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) | |||||||||
| Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux Calvaire) | Benoît Brière, Gaston Lepage | ||||||||
| Project Grizzly | Documentary | ||||||||
| Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur) | Chloé Sainte-Marie | Drama | |||||||
| Power | Documentary | ||||||||
| The Road Taken | Selwyn Jacob | Canada Award winner | |||||||
| Rowing Through | Drama | ||||||||
| La Salla | Jay Brazeau (voice) | Academy Award nominee | |||||||
| Shoemaker | Drama | ||||||||
| Sin Cycle | Jack Cocker, Ben Famiglietti | Short comedy | |||||||
| Specimen | John Bradshaw | Science fiction thriller | |||||||
| The Suburbanators | Joel McNichol, Stephen Spender | Drama | |||||||
| Swann | Drama | Adaptation of the novel by Carol Shields | |||||||
| Documentary |