This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1997:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Absent | Experimental feature | ||||
| Air Bud | Family film | Golden Reel Award
| |||
| The Assignment | Thriller | ||||
| Les Boys | Golden Reel Award | ||||
| The Boys Club | Drama | ||||
| Brian Nash | Documentary | ||||
| Chile, Obstinate Memory (Chile, la memoria obstinada) | Documentary | Chilean, Canadian, Belgian, German and French coproduction | |||
| La Concièrgerie | Drama | ||||
| Cotton Candy | Yôko Higashi, Mitsuka Ohbuchi, Kazutoyo Yoshimi | Short drama | |||
| Cube | Thriller | First in the Cube film series | |||
| Dead Fire | Robert Lee | TV drama | |||
| Drive, She Said | Drama, romance | ||||
| Drowning in Dreams | Documentary | ||||
| Documentary | |||||
| Four Women of Egypt | National Film Board documentary | ||||
| The Hanging Garden | Toronto International Film Festival – Best Canadian Feature, People's Choice Award; Canada-U.K. co-production | ||||
| Hayseed | Comedy | ||||
| Heads or Tails (J'en suis!) | Comedy | ||||
| How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels | National Film Board animated short | ||||
| Kitchen Party | Comedy, drama | ||||
| Love and Death on Long Island | Drama | Canada-U.K. co-production | |||
| Men with Guns | Crime drama | ||||
| Pale Saints | Crime drama | ||||
| Pippi Longstocking | Animated feature | Canada-German-Sweden co-production | |||
| The Planet of Junior Brown | TV drama | Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival | |||
| The Rage | Action | ||||
| Red-Blooded American Girl II | David Blyth | Thriller | |||
| The Revenge of the Woman in Black (La vengeance de la femme en noir) | Comedy | ||||
| The Seat of the Soul (Le siège de l'âme) | Drama | ||||
| Sleeping Dogs | Michael Bafaro | Sci-Fi, Action | Canada-Czech Republic-Germany co-production | ||
| The Sweet Hereafter | Drama based on the novel by Russell Banks; | Atom Egoyan is the first director of a Canadian dramatic feature to be nominated Best Director at the Oscars. | |||
| National Film Board documentary | |||||
| Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | Fantasy drama | ||||
| Uncut | Drama | ||||
| Under the Weather (À l'ombre) | Tali Prévost | Animated short | |||
| Wounded | Crime thriller | ||||
| The Wrong Guy | Comedy | Canada-U.K. co-production | |||
| Zie 37 Stagen | Short drama |