| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| The Best Bad Thing | Peter Rowe | | Drama | Canada-Japan co-production made for TV |
| The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati | Michael McNamara | Alan Williams | Comedy | |
| Cosmos | Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin & Denis Villeneuve | | Drama anthology produced by Roger Frappier | |
| Crash | David Cronenberg | James Spader, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter | Drama based on the novel by J.G. Ballard | Golden Reel Award; Canada-U.K. co-production |
| Fire | Deepa Mehta | Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi | Drama | Banned in India; first in the Fire, Earth, Water trilogy by director Deepa Mehta; Canada-India co-production |
| Hard Core Logo | Bruce McDonald | Hugh Dillon, Callum Keith Rennie | Mockumentary | Genie Award - Song |
| Highway of Heartache | Gregory Wild | Barbara Chamberlin, Dusty Ryane | Drama | |
| Hollow Point | Sidney J. Furie | Thomas Ian Griffith, Tia Carrere, John Lithgow | Action | |
| The Ideal Man (L’Homme idéal) | George Mihalka | Marie-Lise Pilote, Roy Dupuis, Macha Grenon, Joe Bocan | Comedy, drama | Genie Award - Song |
| Hustler White | Bruce LaBruce | Bruce LaBruce, Alex Austin | Gay drama | Canada-German co-production |
| Jim Loves Jack | David Adkin | Jim Egan, Jack Nesbit | Documentary | |
| Joe's So Mean to Josephine | Peter Wellington | Eric Thal, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar | Drama | |
| Karmina | Gabriel Pelletier | Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier, France Castel | Comedy horror | |
| Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy | Kelly Makin | Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley | Comedy | Spin-off from the TV show made with U.S. financing |
| Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge | Drama | Genie Award - Actress (Parker) |
| Letters from Home | Mike Hoolboom | | Short | Toronto International Film Festival – Best Canadian Short |
| Lilies | John Greyson | Matthew Ferguson, Jason Cadieux, Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin, Danny Gilmore, Rémy Girard | Drama adapted from the play by Michel-Marc Bouchard | |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | David Wellington | William Hutt, Martha Henry, Martha Burns, Tom McCamus, Peter Donaldson | Drama based on the Eugene O'Neill play | Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival |
| Lulu | Srinivas Krishna | Kim Lieu, Clark Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey | Drama | Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival |
| Mistaken Identity (Erreur sur la personne) | Gilles Noël | Michel Côté, Macha Grenon, Marie-Andrée Corneille | Thriller | |
| Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) | Paul Carrière | | Documentary | |
| Not Me! (Sous-sol) | Pierre Gang | Richard Moffatt, Louise Portal, Isabelle Pasco | Drama | Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year |
| The Old Lady and the Pigeons | Sylvain Chomet | | Animated short co-produced with the National Film Board | Canada-U.K.-France-Belgium co-production |
| Le Polygraphe | Robert Lepage | Marie Brassard, Patrick Goyette | Drama | |
| Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux Calvaire) | Denys Arcand | Benoît Brière, Gaston Lepage | Drama | |
| Project Grizzly | Peter Lynch | Troy Hurtubise | Documentary | |
| Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur) | Gilles Carle | Chloé Sainte-Marie | Drama | |
| The Road Taken | Selwyn Jacob | | Documentary co-produced with the National Film Board | Canada Award winner |
| Rowing Through | Masato Harada | Colin Ferguson, Helen Shaver, Leslie Hope, Kenneth Welsh, James Hyndman | Drama | |
| La Salla | Richard Condie | Jay Brazeau (voice) | Computer animation from the National Film Board | Academy Award nominee |
| Shoemaker | Colleen Murphy | George Buza, Alberta Watson | Drama | |
| Suburbinators | Gary Burns | Joel McNichol, Stephen Spender | Drama | |
| Swann | Anna Benson Gyles | Brenda Fricker, Miranda Richardson, Sean McCann | Drama | Adaptation of the novel by Carol Shields |
