# List of Canadian films of 2009

This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2009:
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1981 | Ricardo Trogi | Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson | Drama | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actress (Bisson) |
| 3 Seasons (3 saisons) | Jim Donovan | | Drama | |
| 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des Ormes) | Éric Tessier | René-Daniel Dubois, Marc-André Grondin | Drama, Thriller | Based on the novel 5150, rue des Ormes |
| Act of God | Jennifer Baichwal | Paul Auster, Dannion Brinkley | Documentary | Vancouver International Film Festival premiere |
| Amreeka | Cherien Dabis | Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat | Immigrant family drama | Cannes Film Festival – International Critics Prize; Canada-Kuwait co-production |
| The Armoire | Jamie Travis | William Cuddy, Ricardo Hoyos, Penelope Corrin | Short drama | |
| At Home by Myself...With You | Kris Booth | Kristin Booth, Aaron Abrams, Shauna MacDonald | Comedy drama | |
| Blind Spot (Lucidité passagère) | Fabrice Barrilliet, Nicolas Bolduc, Julien Knafo, Marie-Hélène Panisset | Daniel Parent, Hélène Florent, Erik Duhamel, Maxim Roy, Mario Saint-Amand | Drama | |
| Broke | Rosvita Dransfeld | David Woolfson, Chris Hoard | Documentary | |
| Cadavres | Érik Canuel | Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Sylvie Boucher, Christopher Heyerdahl | Black comedy | Prix Jutra – Makeup |
| Cairo Time | Ruba Nadda | Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Amina Annabi, Tom McCamus | Romance | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature; Canada-Ireland-Egypt co-production |
| The Canadiens, Forever (Pour toujours, les Canadiens!) | Sylvain Archambault | Dhanaé Audet-Beaulieu, Antoine L'Écuyer, Céline Bonnier, Christian Bégin | Drama | |
| Carcasses | Denis Côté | Jean-Paul Colmor | Docufiction | |
| A Cargo to Africa (Un cargo pour l'Afrique) | Roger Cantin | | Drama | |
| The Cave (?E?anx) | Helen Haig-Brown | Edmund Lulua, Kelly William | Short science fiction | |
| Chloe | Atom Egoyan | Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Max Thieriot | Sexual drama | A Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson (based on the screenplay of the 2003 film Nathalie by Anne Fontaine). |
| Clouds Over the City (Nuages sur la ville) | Simon Galiero | | Drama | |
| Cole | Carl Bessai | Richard de Klerk, Kandyse McClure, Rebecca Jenkins, Sonja Bennett | Drama | |
| Cooking with Stella | Richie Mehta | Don McKellar, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Vanesh Bhardwaj, Shriya Saran | Drama | Canada-India co-production |
| Defendor | Peter Stebbings | Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Clark Johnson, Lisa Ray | Drama | Genie Award – Honourable Mention |
| The Delian Mode | Kara Blake | Delia Derbyshire | Documentary | |
| Detour (Détour) | Sylvain Guy | Luc Picard, Isabelle Guérard, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge | Thriller | |
| District 9 | Neill Blomkamp | Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Louis Minnaar, William Allen Young | Science fiction action |
| Excited | Bruce Sweeney | Gabrielle Rose, Agam Darshi | Comedy | |
| Father and Guns (De père en flic) | Émile Gaudreault | Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Caroline Dhavernas, Rémy Girard | Comedy | Golden Reel Award |
| Fig Trees | John Greyson | | Documentary on AIDS in Africa | Berlin Film Festival- Teddy Award |
| Finding Farley | Leanne Allison | | Documentary | Cross-Canada trek to meet Farley Mowat |
| Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica | Cam Christiansen | | Animated short | |
| Free Fall (Les pieds dans le vide) | Mariloup Wolfe | Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Laurence Leboeuf, Éric Bruneau | Drama | |
| Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould | Peter Raymont | | Documentary | |
| A Happy Man (Le Bonheur de Pierre) | Robert Ménard | Pierre Richard, Rémy Girard | Comedy-drama | |
| A Hard Name | Alan Zweig | | Documentary | Best feature-length documentary, Genie Awards |
| Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) | Sophie Lorain | Marie-Thérèse Fortin, François Arnaud, Marie Brassard | Drama | |
| How to Be Alone | Andrea Dorfman | Tanya Davis | Animated short | |
| Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | Brigitte Berman | Hugh Hefner | Documentary | |
| I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) | Xavier Dolan | Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément | Drama | Xavier Dolan's first feature |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp | Fantasy drama | Academy Award nominations for costumes and art direction; Canada-U.K.-France co-production |
| Inside Hana's Suitcase | Larry Weinstein | | Documentary | |
| Invisible City | Hubert Davis | | Documentary | Best Canadian Feature, Hot Docs |
| Jajo's Secret | James Motluk | | Documentary | |
| Kissed by Lightning | Shelley Niro | | Drama | |
| Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu) | Claude Demers | | Documentary | |
| Land of Men (Terre des hommes) | Ky Nam Le Duc | Jorge Martinez Colorado, Rosa Zacharie, Hugues Saint-Louis | Short drama | |
| Last Train Home | Lixin Fan | | Documentary | Genie Award – Documentary; Prix Jutra – Documentary |
| Leslie, My Name Is Evil | Reginald Harkema | Kristen Hager, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Tracy Wright, Don McKellar | drama | |
| Life Begins (La Vie commence) | Émile Proulx-Cloutier | Jacques Girard, Maxime Dumontier, Vincent Proulx-Hébert, Anfée Tremblay-Proulx | Short drama | |
| The Little White Cloud That Cried | Guy Maddin | Breanna Rose Taylor, Marcia Ferreira, Eric Wood, Lexi Tronic, Teresa Braun, Zsa Zsa LaBitche, Sex Party Marty | Experimental short | |
| Lost Song | Rodrigue Jean | Suzie LeBlanc | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature |
| Love and Savagery | John N. Smith | Allan Hawco, Sarah Greene, Martha Burns | Romantic drama | Genie Award – Supporting Actress (Burns); screenplay by Des Walsh; Canada-Ireland co-production |
| Mark | Mike Hoolboom | Mark Karbusicky, Mirha-Soleil Ross, Kristyn Dunnion | Documentary | |
| The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) | Patrice Sauvé | Marc Messier, Normand Daneau, Fanny Mallette | Science fiction/fantasy | |
| New Denmark | Rafaël Ouellet | | Drama | |
| Night Mayor | Guy Maddin | Nihad Ademi | Short | Best Experimental Short, South by Southwest |
| Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Rhys Ifans | Science fiction film | Belgium-Canada-France-Germany co-production; most expensive Belgian film to date |
| One Night | Shelagh Carter | Jonathan Ralston, Jennifer Dale | Short | |
| Out in That Deep Blue Sea | Kazik Radwanski | | Short drama | |
| Passenger Side | Matt Bissonnette | Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Gale Harold | Drama | |
| Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands | Peter Mettler | | Documentary | |
| Polytechnique | Denis Villeneuve | Maxim Gaudette, Sebastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse | Drama | Based on a true story on the École Polytechnique massacre |
| Prom Night in Mississippi | Paul Saltzman | | Documentary | |
| Reel Injun | Neil Diamond | Adam Beach, Sacheen Littlefeather, Russell Means | Documentary | History of American Indians in cinema; Peabody Award winner |
| Robes of War (Robe de guerre) | Michèle Cournoyer | | National Film Board animated short | Prix Jutra – Animated Short |
| Runaway | Cordell Barker | | National Film Board animated short | Genie Award – Animated Short |
| Savage | Lisa Jackson | | Short film | Genie Award – Live action short drama |
| Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees (La neige cache l'ombre des figuiers) | Samer Najari | | Short film | |
| The Spine | Chris Landreth | Gordon Pinsent, Alberta Watson (voices) | Computer animation | Follow-up to Landreth's Oscar-winning Ryan |
| Survival of the Dead | George A. Romero | Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick | Zombie horror | Made with U.S. financing |
| Suzie | Micheline Lanctôt | Micheline Lanctôt, Pascale Bussières, Normand Daneau | Drama | |
| Taking the Plunge 2 (À vos marques... party! 2) | Frédéric D'Amours | | Comedy | |
| Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes) | Jean-Philippe Duval | Sébastien Ricard, Joseph Mesiano, Dimitri Storoge, Benedicte Decary | Biodrama | About the life of Dédé Fortin, the front man for the band Les Colocs; Prix Jutra – Actor (Ricard), Art Direction, Costumes, Musical Score |
| The Timekeeper (L'Heure de vérité) | Louis Bélanger | Craig Olejnik, Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Gary Farmer | Drama | |
| Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day | Mike Clattenburg | Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith | Comedy | |
| Train to Nowhere (À quelle heure le train pour nulle part) | Robin Aubert | | | |
| The Trotsky | Jacob Tierney | Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire | | Genie Awards – Screenplay, Song |
| The Uninvited | The Guard Brothers | Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn | Psychological horror | |
| Vital Signs (Les Signes vitaux) | Sophie Deraspe | | Drama | |
| A Wake | Penelope Buitenhuis | Tara Nicodemo, Graham Abbey, Krista Sutton, Raoul Bhaneja, Martha Burns, Kristopher Turner, Nicholas Campbell | Drama | |
| Walled In | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger | Horror, Thriller | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing |
| Waterlife | Kevin McMahon | narrated by Gordon Downie | Documentary produced with the National Film Board | |
| The Wild Hunt | Alexandre Franchi | Mark Krupa, Ricky Mabe, Kaniehtiio Horn | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian First Feature; Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award |
| You Might As Well Live | Simon Ennis | Joshua Peace, Michael Madsen, Stephen McHattie | Comedy | |