This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | |||||
| Forbidden Journey | Drama | ||||
| Lights of My City (Les Lumières de ma ville) | Drama | [1] | |||
| Séraphin | Drama | [2] | |||
| 1951 | |||||
| Around Is Around & Now Is the Time | NFB experimental shorts | An early experimentation in 3D by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart; CFA - Special award[3] | |||
| The Fight: Science against Cancer | NFB animated short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
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| Neighbours | NFB short made by pixilation technique | ||||
| Newfoundland Scene | Frank Peddie | Documentary | |||
| Royal Journey | NFB documentary | ||||
| 1952 | |||||
| The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux) | Drama | ||||
| Étienne Brûlé, gibier de potence | Drama | The film was shot in both French and English, and is credited as being the first Canadian feature in colour.[5] | |||
| Little Aurore's Tragedy (La petite Aurore, l’enfant martyre) | Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell | Drama | [6] | ||
| The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) | Drama | ||||
| Opera School | Marguerite Gignac | Docudrama | |||
| The Romance of Transportation in Canada | NFB animated short | The received a special BAFTA Award, the Short Film Palme d'Or for animation at Cannes Film Festival, as well as an Academy Award for Animated Short Film nomination. | |||
| The Settler (L'Abatis) | Short documentary | ||||
| 1953 | |||||
| Farewell Oak Street | Docudrama | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short[7] | |||
| Herring Hunt | NFB short | Academy Award nominee[8] | |||
| A Mother's Heart (Cœur de maman) | Drama | ||||
| Tit-Coq | Drama based on the play by Gélinas | ||||
| 1954 | |||||
| Corral | NFB short | ||||
| The Seasons | Short documentary | ||||
| The Stratford Adventure | NFB documentary | This was named Film of the Year at the Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | |||
| 1955 | |||||
| Blinkity Blank | NFB animated short | It received the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| 1956 | |||||
| Gold | Documentary short | ||||
| Rythmetic | NFB animated short | ||||
| Skidrow | CBC documentary | Canadian Film Awards – TV Information[9] | |||
| Le Village enchanté | Animated | Canada's first animated feature.[10] | |||
| 1957 | |||||
| A Chairy Tale | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action) | ||||
| City of Gold | Klondike Gold Rush | Winner of the Palme d'or for best short film at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects | |||
| Legend of the Raven | Documentary | Canadian Film Awards – Arts and Experimental[11] | |||
| Oedipus Rex | Classic drama from the original Stratford Festival stage version based on a translation by W. B. Yeats[12] | ||||
| 1958 | |||||
| Les brûlés | Drama | ||||
| A Dangerous Age | Drama | ||||
| Flaming Frontier | Western | A low-budget B-Western shot in Los Angeles and Calgary and made with Canadian financing.[13] | |||
| Ivy League Killers | Drama | ||||
| The Living Stone | NFB documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. | |||
| Money Minters | Documentary | ||||
| Now That April's Here | Drama | [14] | |||
| The Quest | Short drama | ||||
| Les Raquetteurs | NFB documentary | ||||
| The Tall Country | Documentary | ||||
| Wolf Dog | Drama | ||||
| 1959 | |||||
| The Back-Breaking Leaf | NFB documentary | Part of the groundbreaking NFB Candid Eye series shown on the CBC-TV (1958–61); Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or for Television Documentary[15] | |||
| The Bloody Brood | Drama | ||||
| A Cool Sound from Hell | Drama | ||||
| Glenn Gould: On/Off the Record | NFB documentary | Part of the Candid Eye series[16] [17] |