This is a list of Canadian films which were released in 2009:
| width=21% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=22% | Cast | width=13% | Genre | width=28% | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Drama | Prix Jutra – Supporting Actress (Bisson) | |||||||
| 3 Seasons (3 saisons) | Drama | ||||||||
| 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue des Ormes) | René-Daniel Dubois, Marc-André Grondin | Based on the novel 5150, rue des Ormes | |||||||
| Act of God | Paul Auster, Dannion Brinkley | Documentary | Vancouver International Film Festival premiere | ||||||
| Amreeka | Immigrant family drama | Cannes Film Festival – International Critics Prize; Canada-Kuwait co-production | |||||||
| The Armoire | Short drama | ||||||||
| At Home by Myself...With You | Kris Booth | ||||||||
| Blind Spot (Lucidité passagère) | Drama | ||||||||
| Broke | David Woolfson, Chris Hoard | Documentary | |||||||
| Cadavres | Black comedy | Prix Jutra – Makeup | |||||||
| Cairo Time | Romance | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature; Canada-Ireland-Egypt co-production | |||||||
| The Canadiens, Forever (Pour toujours, les Canadiens!) | Drama | ||||||||
| Carcasses | Jean-Paul Colmor | ||||||||
| A Cargo to Africa (Un cargo pour l'Afrique) | Drama | ||||||||
| The Cave (?E?anx) | Edmund Lulua, Kelly William | Short science fiction | |||||||
| Chloe | 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) | Drama | ||||||||
| Cole | Drama | ||||||||
| Cooking with Stella | Drama | Canada-India co-production | |||||||
| Danse Macabre | Anne Bruce Falconer | Genie Award – Live-Action Short; Prix Jutra – Short Film; TIFF – Best Canadian Short | |||||||
| Defendor | Drama | Genie Award – Honourable Mention | |||||||
| The Delian Mode | |||||||||
| Detour (Détour) | Thriller | ||||||||
| District 9 | Science fiction action | ||||||||
| Excited | Comedy | ||||||||
| Father and Guns (De père en flic) | Comedy | Golden Reel Award | |||||||
| Fig Trees | John Greyson | Documentary on AIDS in Africa | Berlin Film Festival- Teddy Award | ||||||
| Finding Farley | |||||||||
| Animated short | |||||||||
| Free Fall (Les pieds dans le vide) | Drama | ||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||
| A Happy Man (Le Bonheur de Pierre) | Comedy-drama | ||||||||
| A Hard Name | Documentary | Best feature-length documentary, Genie Awards | |||||||
| Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) | Drama | ||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||
| I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) | Xavier Dolan's first feature | ||||||||
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Fantasy drama | Academy Award nominations for costumes and art direction; Canada-U.K.-France co-production | |||||||
| Inside Hana's Suitcase | Documentary | ||||||||
| Invisible City | Documentary | ||||||||
| Jajo's Secret | Documentary | ||||||||
| Kissed by Lightning | Drama | ||||||||
| Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu) | Documentary | ||||||||
| Land of Men (Terre des hommes) | Jorge Martinez Colorado, Rosa Zacharie, Hugues Saint-Louis | Short drama | |||||||
| Last Train Home | Documentary | Genie Award – Documentary; Prix Jutra – Documentary | |||||||
| Leslie, My Name Is Evil | drama | ||||||||
| Life Begins (La Vie commence) | Jacques Girard, Maxime Dumontier, Vincent Proulx-Hébert, Anfée Tremblay-Proulx | Short drama | |||||||
| The Little White Cloud That Cried | Breanna Rose Taylor, Marcia Ferreira, Eric Wood, Lexi Tronic, Teresa Braun, Zsa Zsa LaBitche, Sex Party Marty | Experimental short | |||||||
| Lost Song | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian Feature | |||||||
| Love and Savagery | Romantic drama | Genie Award – Supporting Actress (Burns); screenplay by Des Walsh; Canada-Ireland co-production | |||||||
| Mark | Documentary | ||||||||
| The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles) | Science fiction/fantasy | ||||||||
| New Denmark | Drama | ||||||||
| Night Mayor | Guy Maddin | Short | |||||||
| 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 | Short | |||||||
| Out in That Deep Blue Sea | Short drama | ||||||||
| Passenger Side | Drama | ||||||||
| Documentary | |||||||||
| Polytechnique | Based on a true story on the École Polytechnique massacre | ||||||||
| Prom Night in Mississippi | Documentary | ||||||||
| Reel Injun | History of American Indians in cinema; Peabody Award winner | ||||||||
| Robes of War (Robe de guerre) | National Film Board animated short | Prix Jutra – Animated Short | |||||||
| Runaway | National Film Board animated short | Genie Award – Animated Short | |||||||
| Savage | Short film | Genie Award – Live action short drama | |||||||
| Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees (La neige cache l'ombre des figuiers) | Short film | ||||||||
| The Spine | Gordon Pinsent, Alberta Watson (voices) | Follow-up to Landreth's Oscar-winning Ryan | |||||||
| Survival of the Dead | Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick | Zombie horror | Made with U.S. financing | ||||||
| Suzie | Drama | ||||||||
| Taking the Plunge 2 (À vos marques... party! 2) | Comedy | ||||||||
| Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes) | 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) | Drama | ||||||||
| Train to Nowhere (À quelle heure le train pour nulle part) | |||||||||
| The Trotsky | Genie Awards – Screenplay, Song | ||||||||
| The Uninvited | The Guard Brothers | Psychological horror | |||||||
| Vital Signs (Les Signes vitaux) | Drama | ||||||||
| A Wake | Drama | ||||||||
| Walled In | Canada-France co-production made with U.S. financing | ||||||||
| Waterlife | |||||||||
| The Wild Hunt | Drama | TIFF – Best Canadian First Feature; Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award | |||||||
| You Might As Well Live | Simon Ennis | Comedy |