Ararat 2002  R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Atom Egoyan
Cast: David Alpay, Arsinee Khanjian, Christopher Plummer, Charles Aznavour, Marie-Josee Croze, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Simon Abkarian
This movie within a movie–about filming the story of the Armenian holocaust, 1915-1918–features David Alpay as young Raffi. While carrying back sealed cans of movie film for the production company, a suspicious customs official (Christopher Plummer) begins questioning Raffi who reveals aspects of his own life as well as that of the Armenian people–including his own father who was an Armenian freedom fighter.
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 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Denys Arcand
Cast: Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Dorothee Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel, Yves Jacques, Pierre Curzi, Marie-Josee Croze, Marina Hands, Toni Cecehinato, Mitsou Gelinas, Sophie Lorain
When she learns that Remy (Remy Girard), a professor of history, is dying of cancer, his ex-wife Louise (Dorothee Berryman) calls on their son, Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau), to visit him. After one look at the hospital situation, Sebastien finds Remy a more suitable room and then contacts Remy's friends from around the world who all respond by visiting Remy. Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 2000  PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Battlefield Earth
Director: Roger Christian
Cast: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti, Richard Tyson, Marie-Josee Croze, Kelly Preston, Michael Byrne, Sean Hewitt, Christian Tessier, Silvain Landry, Christopher Freeman, Tim Post, Michel Perron
Set in the year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard's (the founder of Scientology) story is about manipulative aliens, led by Teri (John Travolta), who have rounded up humans to mine Earth. When Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) is captured and sent to the mines, he determines to beat the aliens at their own game.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankole, Emma de Caunes, Gerard Watkins, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Based on French "Elle" editor Jean-Dominique Bauby's best-selling memoir, this story shows how Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) suffers a stroke and the psychological torment he endures when he suffers "locked-in syndrome" in which his brain is working, but he is not able to speak nor move his body. The one thing Bauby can do is blink one eye, and, with help from speech therapist Henriette (Marie-Josee Croze), he is able to form sentences by blinking when she calls out a letter in the alphabet. As a result, Bauby is able to author a manuscript revealing what it is like to be trapped inside one's body and relating fantasies that he has imagined. The film received four Academy Award nominations including Best Director.
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Maelstrom 2000  R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Marie-Josee Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau, Klimbo, Marc Gelinas, Bobby Beshro, Marie-France Lambert, John Dunn-Hill, Virginie Dubois
Narrated (voice of Pierro Lebear) by a fish that is being filleted in a fish market, the fish uses its last moments to tell the surrealistic story about Bibiane Champagne (Marie-Josee Croze) who crashes her car into an elderly fisherman, leaves the scene, plunges her car into a river, and survives. Hope for her salvation lies in the son (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) of the fisherman. Can romance save her?
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| 1. Ararat (2002)
2. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
3. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
aka: Battlefield Earth
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
5. Maelstrom (2000)
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