List of Canadian films of 1991
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1991:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Adjuster | Atom Egoyan | Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin | Drama | Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, entered into Moscow |
| Black Robe | Bruce Beresford | Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Harrison Liu | Historical drama | Canada-Australia co-production based on the novel by Brian Moore. |
| Blackfly | Christopher Hinton | Wade Hemsworth | National Film Board animated short | Academy Award nominee |
| Blood Clan | Chris Wilkinson | Gordon Pinsent, Michelle Little, Robert Wisden, Anne Mansfield | Drama | |
| Bordertown Café | Norma Bailey | Janet Wright, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Nicholas Campbell, Susan Hogan | Drama | Genie for Best Actress |
| Chaindance | Allan Goldstein | Michael Ironside, Rae Dawn Chong, Brad Dourif, Bruce Glover, Ken Pogue | Prison drama | |
| Clearcut | Ryszard Bugajski | Graham Greene, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Tom Jackson | Drama | |
| The Dance Goes On | Paul Almond | James Keach, Matthew Almond, Geneviève Bujold | Drama | |
| Deadly Currents | Simcha Jacobovici | Documentary | Genie Award - Feature Documentary | |
| Diplomatic Immunity | Sturla Gunnarsson | Wendel Meldrum, Ofelia Medina, Michael Hogan, Michael Riley | Drama | |
| The Events Leading Up to My Death | Bill Robertson | John Allore, Peter MacNeill, Rosemary Radcliffe, Linda Kash, Maria del Mar, Karen Hines, Mary Margaret O'Hara | Comedy | |
| The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Daniel Lavoie, Marcel Sabourin | Fantasy | |
| Fearless Tiger | Ron Hulme | Jalal Merhi, Bolo Yeung, Monika Schnarre | Kung-Fu film | Direct to DVD |
| Four Stiffs and a Trombone | Roger Cantin | Germain Houde, Marc Labrèche, Raymond Bouchard, France Castel | Comedy | |
| The Grocer's Wife | John Pozer | Simon Webb, Andrea Rankin, Nicola Cavendish | Comedy | Genie Award – Supporting Actor, Claude Jutra Award Inaugural Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director |
| Highway 61 | Bruce McDonald | Valerie Buhagiar, Don McKellar, Earl Pastko, Art Bergmann, Tracy Wright, Jello Biafra | Drama | |
| Julia Has Two Lovers | Bashar Shbib | Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
| Kumar and Mr. Jones | Sugith Varughese | John Gilbert, Ivan Smith, Michelle Duquette, Diego Matamoros | Short drama | |
| The Legend of Kootenai Brown | Allan Kroeker | Tom Burlinson, Donnelly Rhodes, Michelle Thrush, John Pyper-Ferguson, Raymond Burr | Western | |
| Letters of Transit | Manon Briand | Julie Laverge, Patrick Coyette, Yves Pelletier, Luc Picard | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Short; Yorkton Film Festival – Best Film, Best Director |
| Love Crazy | Robert Ménard | Rémy Girard, Nathalie Gascon, Jean Rochefort, Danielle Proulx | Comedy of manners | Genie Awards – Actor, Supporting Actress |
| The Making of Monsters | John Greyson | Stewart Arnott, David Gardner, Taborah Johnson | Short | TIFF Best Canadian Short |
| Masala | Srinivas Krishna | Srinivas Krishna, Saeed Jaffrey, Sakina Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal | Drama | |
| Montreal Stories | Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jacques Leduc, Léa Pool, Patricia Rozema | Drama anthology | Six short films made for the 350th anniversary of the founding of the city of Montreal | |
| My Grandparents Had a Hotel | Karen Shopsowitz | National Film Board documentary | ||
| Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Monique Mercure, Roy Scheider | Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs | Canada-U.K.-Japan co-production |
| Nelligan | Robert Favreau | Michel Comeau | Drama | Biopic of poet Émile Nelligan |
| No Skin Off My Ass | Bruce LaBruce | G. B. Jones, Bruce LaBruce, Klaus von Brücker, Caroline Azar, Beverly Breckenridge | Comedy-drama | |
| On My Own | Antonio Tibaldi | Judy Davis, Matthew Ferguson, David McIlwrath | Canada-Italy-Australia co-production | |
| The Pianist | Claude Gagnon | Macha Grenon, Gail Travers | Drama | |
| The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Saul Rubinek, R.H. Thomson | Drama | |
| RSVP | Laurie Lynd | Daniel MacIvor | Short drama | |
| Saeed | Mehra Meh | Short drama | ||
| Sam and Me | Deepa Mehta | Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri | Drama | Deepa Mehta's first feature |
| La Sarrasine | Paul Tana | Tony Nardi, Enrica Maria Modugno | Drama | Genie Award – Actor |
| The Savage Woman | Léa Pool | Patricia Tulasne, Matthias Habich, Roger Jendly, Michel Voïta | Drama | Canada-Switzerland co-production |
| Christian Duguay | David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton | Horror | ||
| Shadows of the Past | Gabriel Pelletier | Nicholas Campbell, Erika Anderson | Thriller | Made-for-TV |
| Solitaire | Francis Damberger | Paul Coeur, Valerie Pearson, Michael Hogan | Drama | |
| A Song for Tibet | Anne Henderson | National Film Board documentary | Best Short Documentary, Genie Awards | |
| South of Wawa | Robert Boyd | Rebecca Jenkins, Scott Renderer, Andrew Miller | Comedy, drama | |
| Stereotypes | Jean-Marc Vallée | André Robitaille, France Parent, Martine Francke | Short drama | |
| Stones at the Max | Julien Temple | The Rolling Stones | Shot during The Rolling Stones’ 1990 Steel Wheels tour | Canada-Ireland co-production made with U.S. financing; first rock concert filmed in IMAX |
| Strings | Wendy Tilby | National Film Board animated short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Award - Animated Short | |
| True Confections | Gail Singer | Leslie Hope, Chandra West, Judah Katz, Daniel Kash | Comedy-drama | |
| Two Sisters | Caroline Leaf | National Film Board animated short | Drawn on film animation | |
| White Light | Al Waxman | Martin Kove, Martha Henry, Allison Hossack | Drama | |
| Wisecracks | Gail Singer | Documentary |