List of Canadian films of 2010
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2010:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Frogs in the West (2 frogs dans l'ouest) | Comedy-drama | |||
| 7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion) | Podz | Rémy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette | Thriller | |
| 10½ | Podz | Claude Legault, Robert Naylor | Drama | Prix Jutra – Actor (Legault) |
| Above the Knee | Greg Atkins | Stephen Bogaert, Allen Altman, Naomi Snieckus | Short comedy | |
| 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 (Le Journal d'Aurélie Laflamme) | , , Aliocha Schneider | Comedy-drama | ||
| The Bad Idea Reunion | Daniel Cockburn | Minna Haller; London Angelis (voice) | 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, , 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 | |
| The Child Prodigy (L'Enfant prodige) | Luc Dionne | Guillaume Lebon, Patrick Drolet, Marc Labrèche, Macha Grenon, Karine Vanasse | Drama | |
| City of Shadows (La Cité) | Kim Nguyen | Jean-Marc Barr, Claude Legault, Pierre Lebeau | Drama | |
| The Comeback (Cabotins) | Alain DesRochers | Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Yves Jacques | Comedy | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actress (Berryman) |
| Crying Out (À l'origine d'un cri) | Robin Aubert | Jean Lapointe, Michel Barrette, Patrick Hivon | Road movie | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actor (Lapointe) |
| Curling | Denis Côté | , | Drama | |
| Daydream Nation | 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 |
| (Les lignes ennemies) | Denis Côté | Drama | ||
| Exit 67 (Sortie 67) | Jephté Bastien | , , Benz Antoine | Crime drama | Winner of the Claude Jutra Award |
| (Le Baiser du barbu) | 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 | |
| (Filière 13) | Patrick Huard | Claude Legault, Paul Doucet | Buddy comedy | |
| Flawed | Andrea Dorfman | National Film Board Animated short | Premiered at Hot Docs | |
| Foodland | Adam Smoluk | , Ross McMillan, Kim Poirier | Comedy | Developed with the National Screen Institute's "Features First" program |
| Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie | 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, , 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 |
| 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 (Maslany) |
| 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, | Punk, faux documentary | A sequel to the 1996 film. |
| Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) | 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 (voice) | 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 | |
| Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | 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 | Documentary | |||
| Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, | Drama adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name | Canada-France co-production; TIFF – Best Canadian Feature. |
| Jo for Jonathan (Jo pour Jonathan) | Maxime Giroux | Raphaël Lacaille, | ||
| Journey's End (La Belle Visite) | Documentary | |||
| The Kate Logan Affair | Noël Mitrani | Alexis Bledel, Laurent Lucas | Drama | |
| The Last Escape (La Derniere fugue) | Léa Pool | Yves Jacques, Jacques Godin | Drama | Canada-Luxemburg co-production |
| The Legacy (La Donation) | Bernard Émond | Elise Guilbault, Jacques Godin | Drama | |
| The Legend of Beaver Dam | L. J. Benet, Seán Cullen, Rick Miller | Short musical horror comedy | ||
| 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 (Les Fleurs de l'âge) | Vincent Biron | Short drama | ||
| Marius Borodine | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Wilson Henley, | Short comedy-drama | |
| Mighty Jerome | Charles Officer | Harry Jerome | National Film Board Documentary | |
| Modra | Ingrid Veninger | Drama | Canada-Slovakia co-production | |
| Mokhtar | Halima Ouardiri | Short drama | ||
| A Montreal Girl (La Fille de Montréal) | Jeanne Crépeau | , Réal Bossé, , | Drama | |
| Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna) | Catherine Martin | Guylaine Tremblay, Denis Bernard, Paule Baillargeon | Drama | |
| Oliver Sherman | Ryan Redford | Garret Dillahunt, Molly Parker, Donal Logue | Drama | |
| On the Way to the Sea | Short documentary | |||
| Peter Mettler | Documentary | |||
| Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché, entre ciel et terre) | 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 | |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife | 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 | |
| Score: A Hockey Musical | Michael McGowan | Noah Reid, Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Stephen McHattie, Marc Jordan | Musical | |
| A Shine of Rainbows | Vic Sarin | Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, , Jack Gleason | Drama | Canada-Ireland co-production |
| Silence Lies (Tromper le silence) | Suzanne Clément, , Sébastien Huberdeau | Drama | ||
| 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 | [1] |
| Splice | Vincenzo Natali | Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, David Hewlett | Science fiction, horror | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
| Stay with Me (Reste avec moi) | Robert Ménard | Gérard Poirier, Danielle Proulx, Vincent Bilodeau, Maxim Roy | Drama | |
| Suspicions (Jaloux) | Patrick Demers | Sophie Cadieux, Maxime Denommée, Benoît Gouin | Drama/Thriller | |
| This Movie Is Broken | Bruce McDonald | , Georgina Reilly | Romantic comedy/concert film | Featuring the Broken Social Scene |
| The Trenches (La Tranchée) | Claude Cloutier | Animated short | ||
| Trigger | Bruce McDonald | Molly Parker, Tracy Wright, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley | Comedy-drama | |
| Twice a Woman (Deux fois une femme) | François Delisle | Évelyne Rompré | Drama | |
| Unrivaled | Warren P. Sonoda | Action drama | ||
| Vapor | Kaveh Nabatian | Marco Ledezma, Evergon | Short drama | |
| We're the Weakerthans, We're from Winnipeg | Caelum Vatnsdal | The Weakerthans | Documentary, concert film | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo | Luc Côté & Patricio Henriquez | Documentary | Made for TV; Gémeaux Award winner | |
| Sean Garrity | , , | Drama | Shot with a digital camcorder by a one-man crew on a minuscule budget. |
See also[]
- 2010 in Canada
- 2010 in Canadian television
References[]
- ^ "Sounds Like a Revolution!". Matador Network. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
External links[]
- Feature Films Released In 2010 With Country of Origin Canada at IMDb
- Canada's Top Ten for 2010 (lists of top ten Canadian features and shorts, selected in a process administered by TIFF)
- List of 2010 box office number-one films in Canada
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