List of Canadian films of 2010
This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2010:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
2 Frogs in the West | Dany Papineau | Mirianne Brulé | Comedy-drama | |
7 Days | Podz | Rémy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette | Thriller | |
10½ | Podz | Claude Legault, Robert Naylor | Drama | Prix Jutra – Actor |
Act of Dishonour | Nelofer Pazira | Marina Golbahari | Drama | Set in Afghanistan |
Altitude | Kaare Andrews | Mike Dopud, Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill | Horror | Direct to DVD |
Amazon Falls | Katrin Bowen | April Telek, William B. Davis, Anna Mae Routledge, Zak Santiago | Drama | |
Arctic Blast | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Michael Shanks | Disaster film | Canada-Australia co-production |
Aurelie Laflamme's Diary | Christian Laurence | Marianne Verville, Geneviève Chartrand, Aliocha Schneider | Comedy-drama | |
The Bad Idea Reunion | Daniel Cockburn | Minna Haller; London Angelis | Experimental short | Made for the TIFF Talent Lab |
The Bang Bang Club | Steven Silver | Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman | Drama | Canada-South Africa co-production |
Barney's Version | Richard J. Lewis | Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman, Bruce Greenwood | Comedy-drama adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel | Canada-Italy co-production |
A Beginner's Guide to Endings | Jonathan Sobol | Harvey Keitel, Jason Jones, Paulo Costanzo, Scott Caan, J.K. Simmons, Wendy Crewson | Black comedy | |
Beyond the Black Rainbow | Panos Cosmatos | Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry | Sci-fi fantasy | |
Casino Jack | George Hickenlooper | Kevin Spacey, Kelly Preston, Barry Pepper, Jon Lovitz, Rachelle Lefevre, Graham Greene | Biodrama | A Canadian film about Jack Abramoff |
Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog | Documentary about the Chauvet Cave in southern France that contains the oldest human-painted images yet discovered. | A Canada-France-U.K.-German co-production made with U.S. financing shot in 3D. | |
Cell 213 | Stephen T. Kay | Bruce Greenwood, Eric Balfour, Michael Rooker | Drama | |
City of Shadows | Kim Nguyen | Jean-Marc Barr, Claude Legault, Pierre Lebeau | Drama | |
The Comeback | Alain Desrochers | Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Yves Jacques | Comedy | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actress |
Crying Out | Robin Aubert | Jean Lapointe, Michel Barrette, Patrick Hivon | Road movie | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actor |
Curling | Denis Côté | Emmanuel Bilodeau, Philomène Bilodeau | Drama | |
Daydream Nation | Michael Goldbach | Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas | Drama | |
Dead Lines | Louis Bélanger | Jeri Ryan, Anthony Lemke, Tiera Skovbye | Thriller | Made for television |
Dog Pound | Kim Chapiron | Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel | Drama, thriller | Direct to DVD |
The Enemy Lines | Denis Côté | Drama | ||
Exit 67 | Jephté Bastien | Henri Pardo, Natacha Noël, Benz Antoine | Crime drama | Winner of the Claude Jutra Award |
Face Time | Yves Pelletier | David Savard, Isabelle Blais, Ricardo Trogi | Romantic comedy | |
Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage | George Mihalka | Callum Keith Rennie, Martha MacIsaac | Drama | |
Fathers & Sons | Carl Bessai | Jay Brazeau, Vincent Gale, Tyler Labine | Comedy | |
File Under Miscellaneous | Jeff Barnaby | Glen Gould, Arthur Holden | Science fiction | |
File 13 | Patrick Huard | Claude Legault, Paul Doucet | Buddy comedy | |
Flawed | Andrea Dorfman | National Film Board Animated short | Premiered at Hot Docs | |
Foodland | Adam Smoluk | James Clayton, Ross McMillan, Kim Poirier | Comedy | Developed with the National Screen Institute's "Features First" program |
' | Sturla Gunnarsson | David Suzuki | Documentary | TIFF – People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary |
Frankie and Alice | Geoffrey Sax | Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Matt Frewer | Drama | |
Fubar II | Michael Dowse | Dave Lawrence, Paul Spence, Andy Sparacino, Terra Hazelton | Mockumentary/Comedy | A sequel to the 2002 film |
Good Neighbours | Jacob Tierney | Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman, Emily Hampshire | Drama | Based on a novel by novel Chyrstine Broulliet |
The Gospel According to the Blues | Thom Fitzgerald | Jackie Richardson, Richard Chevolleau, Karen Robinson | Drama | |
GravyTrain | April Mullen | Jennifer Dale | Comedy | |
Grown Up Movie Star | Adriana Maggs | Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Jonny Harris | Drama | Sundance Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance |
Gunless | William Phillips | Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene | Western, comedy | |
Hard Core Logo 2 | Bruce McDonald | Bruce McDonald, Care Failure, Julian Richings, Adrian Dorval | Punk, faux documentary | A sequel to the 1996 film. |
Heartbeats | Xavier Dolan | Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Anne Dorval | Drama | Cannes Film Festival – Regards Jeunes Prix |
Higglety Pigglety Pop! | Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski | Meryl Streep | Stop-motion animation produced with the National Film Board and Warner Home Video | Based on the book by Maurice Sendak |
The High Cost of Living | Deborah Chow | Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian First Feature |
High Life | Gary Yates | Timothy Olyphant, Joe Anderson, Rossif Sutherland | Black comedy | |
' | Brigitte Berman | Hugh Hefner | Documentary | |
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | Ann Marie Fleming | National Film Board animated short | Based on the graphic novel by Bernice Eisenstein | |
In the Name of the Family | Shelley Saywell | Documentary | ||
Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Allen Altman | Drama adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name | Canada-France co-production; TIFF – Best Canadian Feature. |
Journey's End | Jean-François Caissy | Documentary | ||
The Kate Logan Affair | Noël Mitrani | Alexis Bledel, Laurent Lucas | Drama | |
The Last Escape | Léa Pool | Yves Jacques, Jacques Godin | Drama | Canada-Luxemburg co-production |
The Legacy | Bernard Émond | Elise Guilbault, Jacques Godin | Drama | |
A Life Begins | Michel Monty | Julie Le Breton | Drama | |
Life with Murder | John Kastner | Brian Jenkins, Leslie Jenkins | Documentary | |
Lipsett Diaries | Theodore Ushev | Arthur Lipsett | National Film Board Animated documentary | Genie Award – Animated Short; Prix Jutra – Animated Film; see also 2006 film Remembering Arthur |
Little Flowers | Vincent Biron | Short drama | ||
Marius Borodine | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Wilson Henley, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais | Short comedy-drama | |
Mighty Jerome | Charles Officer | Harry Jerome | National Film Board Documentary | |
Modra | Ingrid Veninger | Hallie Switzer | Drama | Canada-Slovakia co-production |
A Montreal Girl | Jeanne Crépeau | Amélie Grenier, Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Jean Turcotte | Drama | |
Mourning for Anna | Catherine Martin | Guylaine Tremblay, Denis Bernard, Paule Baillargeon | Drama | |
Oliver Sherman | Ryan Redford | Garret Dillahunt, Molly Parker, Donal Logue | Drama | |
' | Peter Mettler | Documentary | ||
Sylvain Archambault | Michel Côté, Maxime Le Flaguais, Normand D'Amour, Sophie Prégent, Isabelle Guérard | Drama | ||
Repeaters | Carl Bessai | Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Richard de Klerk, Gabrielle Rose | Drama | |
Remain with Me | Robert Ménard | Gérard Poirier, Danielle Proulx, Vincent Bilodeau, Maxim Roy | Drama | |
' | Paul W.S. Anderson | Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Wentworth Miller | Action, Horror in 3D. | Golden Reel Award. A Canada-France-German co-production made with U.S. financing; with a worldwide box office gross in excess of $296 million, this is the highest-grossing Canadian film. |
Route 132 | Louis Bélanger | François Papineau, Alexis Martin | Crime drama | |
' | Michael McGowan | Noah Reid, Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Stephen McHattie, Marc Jordan | Musical | |
A Shine of Rainbows | Vic Sarin | Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, John Bell-Thomas, Jack Gleason | Drama | Canada-Ireland co-production |
Small Town Murder Songs | Ed Gass-Donnelly | Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton, Jill Hennessy | Crime drama | |
Snow and Ashes | Charles-Olivier Michaud | Rhys Coiro | Drama | |
Sounds Like a Revolution | Summer "Love" Preney, Jane Michener | Michael Franti, Fat Mike, Paris, Jello Biafra | Documentary | |
Splice | Vincenzo Natali | Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, David Hewlett | Science fiction, horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
Suspicions | Patrick Demers | Sophie Cadieux, Maxime Denommée, Benoît Gouin | Drama/Thriller | |
This Movie Is Broken | Bruce McDonald | Greg Calderone, Georgina Reilly | Romantic comedy/concert film | Featuring the Broken Social Scene |
Trigger | Bruce McDonald | Molly Parker, Tracy Wright, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley | Comedy-drama | |
Vapor | Kaveh Nabatian | Marco Ledezma, Evergon | Short drama | |
The Whistleblower | Larysa Kondracki | Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci, Roxana Condurache | Drama | Canada-German co-production made with U.S. financing |
Wrecked | Michael J. Greenspan | Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas | Drama | Made with U.S. financing |
Year of the Carnivore | Sook-Yin Lee | Cristin Milioti, Mark Rendell, Kevin McDonald, Sheila McCarthy | Drama | |
You Are Here | Daniel Cockburn | Tracy Wright, R. D. Reid, Nadia Litz | Drama | |
' | Luc Côté & Patricio Henriquez | Documentary | Made for TV; Gémeaux Award winner | |
Zooey and Adam | Sean Garrity | Tom Keenan, Daria Puttaert, Omar Khan | Drama | Shot with a digital camcorder by a one-man crew on a minuscule budget. |