This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 1991:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
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| The Adjuster | Drama | Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, entered into Moscow | |||||||
| The Apprentice (L'Apprenti) | Animated short | ||||||||
| Black Robe | Historical drama | Canada-Australia co-production based on the novel by Brian Moore. | |||||||
| Blackfly | Wade Hemsworth (song) | National Film Board animated short | Academy Award nominee | ||||||
| Blood Clan | Drama | ||||||||
| Bordertown Café | Drama | Genie for Best Actress | |||||||
| Chaindance | Prison drama | ||||||||
| Clearcut | |||||||||
| The Dance Goes On | Drama | ||||||||
| Deadly Currents | Documentary | Genie Award - Feature Documentary | |||||||
| Diplomatic Immunity | Drama | ||||||||
| The Events Leading Up to My Death | |||||||||
| Every Dog's Guide to the Playground | Animated short | ||||||||
| The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel (Le fabuleux voyage de l'ange) | Fantasy | ||||||||
| The Falls | Kevin McMahon | Documentary | |||||||
| Fearless Tiger | Kung-Fu film | Direct to DVD | |||||||
| Four Stiffs and a Trombone (L'assassin jouait du trombone) | Comedy | ||||||||
| The Grocer's Wife | Genie Award – Supporting Actor (Cavendish), Claude Jutra Award Inaugural Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director | ||||||||
| Highway 61 | Drama | ||||||||
| Julia Has Two Lovers | Drama | Made with U.S. financing | |||||||
| Kumar and Mr. Jones | Short drama | ||||||||
| The Legend of Kootenai Brown | Western | ||||||||
| Letters of Transit (Les Sauf-conduits) | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Short; Yorkton Film Festival – Best Film, Best Director | |||||||
| Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) | Comedy of manners | Genie Awards – Actor (Girard), Supporting Actress (Proulx) | |||||||
| Love Me (Love-moi) | Marcel Simard | Drama | |||||||
| The Making of Monsters | Short | TIFF Best Canadian Short | |||||||
| Masala | Drama | ||||||||
| Montreal Stories (Montréal vu par...) | Drama anthology | Six short films made for the 350th anniversary of the founding of the city of Montreal | |||||||
| My Grandparents Had a Hotel | National Film Board documentary | ||||||||
| Naked Lunch | Canada-U.K.-Japan co-production | ||||||||
| Nelligan | Biopic of poet Émile Nelligan | ||||||||
| No Skin Off My Ass | Comedy-drama | ||||||||
| On My Own | Canada-Italy-Australia co-production | ||||||||
| The Pianist | Drama | ||||||||
| The Quarrel | Drama | ||||||||
| RSVP | Short drama | ||||||||
| Saeed | Short drama | ||||||||
| Sam and Me | Drama | Deepa Mehta's first feature | |||||||
| The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) | Drama | Canada-Switzerland co-production | |||||||
| Horror | |||||||||
| Shadows of the Past | Thriller | Made-for-TV | |||||||
| Ski School | Comedy | ||||||||
| Solitaire | Drama | ||||||||
| A Song for Tibet | Anne Henderson | National Film Board documentary | |||||||
| South of Wawa | Comedy, drama | ||||||||
| Stereotypes (Stéréotypes) | André Robitaille, France Parent, Martine Francke | Short drama | |||||||
| Stones at the Max | 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 | National Film Board animated short | Academy Award nominee; Genie Award - Animated Short | |||||||
| True Confections | Comedy-drama | ||||||||
| Two Sisters | National Film Board animated short | ||||||||
| White Light | Martin Kove, Martha Henry, Allison Hossack | Drama | |||||||
| Wisecracks | Documentary | ||||||||
| Xénofolies | Short documentary |