List of Canadian films of 2005
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2005.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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3 Needles | Thom Fitzgerald | Lucy Liu, Olympia Dukakis, Shawn Ashmore, Sandra Oh | AIDS Drama | |
7 Times Lucky | Gary Yates | Kevin Pollak, Liane Balaban, Jonas Chernick, James Tolkan, Babz Chula | Crime drama | Genie Award - Song |
Alone in the Dark | Uwe Boll | Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff | Sci-fi horror | Canada-German co-production made with U.S. financing |
An American Haunting | Courtney Solomon | Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood | Horror | Canada-U.K.-Romania co-production made with U.S. financing |
Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma | Denis Langlois | Dusan Dukic, Louise Laprade, Norman Helms | Drama | |
American Soldiers | Sidney J. Furie | Action | Direct to DVD | |
Audition (L'Audition) | Luc Picard | Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Alexis Martin, Denis Bernard | Drama | Genie Award – Supporting Actor (Bernard); Prix Jutra – Musical Score |
Aurora Borealis | Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher | Romance | Made with U.S. financing | |
Aurore | Luc Dionne | Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo, Stéphanie Lapointe, Alice Morel-Michaud | Drama | Based on true story of Aurore Gagnon; a remake of the 1952 film, La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre. |
Bailey's Billion$ | David Devine | Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim Curry, Sheila McCarthy | Family comedy | |
Bangkok Girl | Documentary | About sex tourism in Bangkok; made for TV | ||
Being Caribou | & Diana Wilson | National Film Board documentary | ||
Being Human | Denys Desjardins | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | ||
Beowulf & Grendel | Sturla Gunnarsson | Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson | Epic Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Adaptation of the epic poem, Beowulf; filmed in Iceland; Canada-Iceland-Australia co-production |
The Best of Secter and the Rest of Secter | David Secter | Documentary | ||
Big Girl | Samantha Weinstein, Kris Holden-Reid | Short | TIFF – Best Canadian Short | |
The Big White | Denys Desjardins | Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown, Alison Lohman | Canada-New Zealand co-production made with U.S. financing | |
Black Widow | Sarah Slean, Martin Tielli, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Tom McCamus, Julian Richings | A "Film Noir Musical" is based on the Evelyn Dick murder case made for TV. | ||
Bloodsuckers | Matthew Hastings | Dominic Zamprogna, A.J. Cook, Natassia Malthe | Horror | Made for TV |
Mila Aung-Thwin | Documentary | Made for TV | ||
Les Boys IV | George Mihalka | Rémy Girard, Pierre Lebeau, Marc Messier | Comedy | |
The Brotherhood IV | David DeCoteau | Sebastian Gacki, April Telek | Horror | |
The Cabin Movie | Dylan Akio Smith | Arabella Bushnell, Ben Cotton, , Ryan Robbins, , | Comedy-drama | |
Cake | Nisha Ganatra | Heather Graham, David Sutcliffe, Taye Diggs, Sandra Oh, Cheryl Hines, Bruce Gray | Romantic comedy | Made with U.S. financing |
The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie | Larry Jacobs & Ron Pitts | voices Stephanie Beard, Robert Tinkler, Julie Lemieux, Linda Ballantyne, Stephen Ouimette | Animated feature | Direct to DVD |
Chairman George | Daniel Cross & Mila Aung-Thwin | George Sapounidis | Documentary | Made for TV |
cNote | Christopher Hinton | Michael Oesterle (music) | Visual music; animated short | Genie Award for Best Animated Short |
Continuous Journey | Ali Kazimi | Documentary | In 1914 the Komagata Maru, a vessel with 378 immigrants sailing from Hong Kong, arrived in Vancouver only to become the first ship carrying migrants turned away by Canada. | |
C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée | Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Pierre-Luc Brillant | Family Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature |
The Dark Hours | Paul Fox | , Aidan Devine, Gordon Currie, Dov Tiefenbach | Thriller | Direct to DVD |
Vic Sarin | , Jennifer Tilly, Monika Schnarre, Barry Watson, Dave Thomas | Comedy | ||
Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique) | Ricardo Trogi | Patrice Robitaille | Comedy | |
Drifting States (Les États nordiques) | Denis Côté | Christian LeBlanc | Drama | |
Eighteen | Richard Bell | Brendan Fletcher, Carly Pope, Alan Cumming, Ian McKellen | Drama | Festival premiere was in tandem with 60th Anniversary of the end of WWII |
Eve and the Fire Horse | Julia Kwan | , Hollie Lo, Vivian Wu, | Drama | Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award |
Exiles in Lotusland (Le méchant trip) | Mélissa Cossette, Dany Nadeau | National Film Board documentary | ||
Familia | Louise Archambault | Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Juliette Gosselin, Micheline Lanctôt | Family drama | Claude Jutra Award; TIFF – Best First Feature |
Fetching Cody | David Ray | Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Nicole Muñoz, Jim Byrnes, Ken Jones | Drama | |
Getting Gilliam | Vincenzo Natali | Documentary | About the making of Terry Gilliam's film Tideland made for TV. | |
Guy X | Saul Metzstein | Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Michael Ironside | Mystery, comedy | Canada-U.K.-Iceland co-production |
Larry Kent | Alan Scarfe, Carly Pope, Scott Hylands | Family drama | ||
Hardwood | Hubert Davis | Mel Davis (Harlem Globetrotters) | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject nomination |
Mark Lewis | Paul Campbell, , John Callander, Peter Outerbridge | Drama | ||
Kamataki | Claude Gagnon | , Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Drama | |
Land of the Dead | George A. Romero | John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Robert Joy | Horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
Lie with Me | Clement Virgo | Lauren Lee Smith, Eric Balfour, Polly Shannon, Kate Lynch | Romance | |
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | Michael Mabbott | Matt Murphy, Natalie Radford, Kris Kristofferson | Mockumentary | TIFF - Best Canadian First Feature |
Life with My Father (La Vie avec mon père) | Sébastien Rose | Raymond Bouchard, Paul Ahmarani, David La Haye, Hélène Florent | Comedy, drama | Canada-France co-production |
Living on the Edge | Rodrigue Jean | Gérald Leblanc | Documentary | |
The Long Weekend | Chris Klein, Brendan Fehr | Thriller | ||
Looking for Angelina | Sergio Navarretta | , , Leslie Carlson | Crime drama | |
Lucid | Sean Garrity | Jonas Chernick, Lindy Booth, Callum Keith Rennie, Michelle Nolden | Drama | |
Maman Last Call | François Bouvier | Sophie Lorain, Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton | Comedy-drama | |
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company | Allan King | Documentary | ||
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey | Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen & | Documentary | ||
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Documentary | Direct to DVD | ||
Mohawk Girls | Tracey Deer | National Film Board documentary | ||
Murder Unveiled | Vic Sarin | Anita Majumdar | Drama | Made for TV; based on the true story of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu |
My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers | Anne Troake | Documentary | A defense of the Canadian seal hunt | |
The Novena (La Neuvaine) | Bernard Émond | Élise Guilbault, Patrick Drolet | Drama | Prix Jutra – Actress (Guilbault) |
The Outlander (Le Survenant) | Érik Canuel | Drama | ||
The Peacekeepers | Paul Cowan | National Film Board documentary | ||
Rahul's Arranged Marriage | Devika Mathur, Anurag Mathur | Romance, Drama, Short | ||
Red (Le Rouge au sol) | Maxime Giroux | Martin Dubreuil | Short | Genie Award – Live-Action Short |
The River King | Nick Willing | Edward Burns, Jennifer Ehle, Thomas Gibson, Rachelle Lefevre, | Crime drama | Canada-U.K. co-production |
The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | Charles Binamé | Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Philip Craig, Patrice Robitaille, Rémy Girard, Julie Le Breton | Biodrama about Montreal Canadiens star, Maurice Richard | |
Sabah | Ruba Nadda | Arsinée Khanjian, Shawn Doyle, Jeff Seymour, David Alpay | Romance | |
Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés) | Robin Aubert | |||
Severed: Forest of the Dead | Carl Bessai | Paul Campbell, Sarah Lind, JR Bourne | Horror | |
Sidekick | David Ingram | Thriller | ||
A Simple Curve | Aubrey Nealon | Kris Lemche, Michael Hogan, Matt Craven | Drama | |
Six Figures | David Christensen | JR Bourne, Caroline Cave | Thriller | |
There's a Flower in My Pedal | Andrea Dorfman | Short | ||
These Girls | David Boreanaz, Caroline Dhavernas | Satire | ||
Thieves of Innocence (Les Voleurs d'enfance) | Paul Arcand | Documentary | ||
Thralls | Ron Oliver | Lorenzo Lamas, Leah Cairns, Crystal Lowe | Horror | |
Tideland | Terry Gilliam | Jodelle Ferland, Jeff Bridges, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly | Fantasy drama | Genie Award - Overall sound; Canada-U.K. co-production |
Tower Bawher | Theodore Ushev | Animated short | ||
The United States of Albert (Les États-Unis d'Albert) | André Forcier | , Roy Dupuis, Céline Bonnier | Comedy-drama | |
Water | Deepa Mehta | Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham | Romance, Drama | Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign-Language film; Canada-India co-production |
Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | Colin Firth, Kevin Bacon, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard | Drama based on the novel by Rupert Holmes | Genie Award – Adapted Screenplay; Canada-U.K. co-production |
White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice | Supernatural thriller | Canada-U.K. co-production |
Whole New Thing | Amnon Buchbinder | Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor | Drama | |
Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | Documentary | Canada-U.K.-France co-production made with U.S. financing | |
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards | B. P. Paquette | Vlasta Vrána, Micheline Lanctôt | Drama | |
Zizek! | Astra Taylor | Slavoj Žižek | Documentary | Made with U.S. financing |
See also[]
External links[]
- Feature Films Released In 2005 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb
- Canada's Top Ten for 2005 (list of top ten Canadian feature films, selected in a process administered by TIFF)
- List of 2005 box office number-one films in Canada
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