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Marie-Josée Croze has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Fish Tank
2009
Drama

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Tell No One
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Calvary
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Nobody from Nowhere
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In Her Name
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 52%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Confessions
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 84%Prime Video · Included

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Dir. Julian Schnabel · With Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Dir. Denys Arcand · With Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly

Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
Dir. Jean Becker · With Albert Dupontel, Marie-Josée Croze, Pierre Vaneck

Sebastien Nicolas is a reclusive realtor leading a double life – in his spare time he creates complex disguises based on acquaintances. Combined with minutely studied and rehearsed impersonations, Sebastien can disappear completely into other people's lives. Things spiral out of control after he impersonates the wrong man.
Dir. Matthieu Delaporte · With Mathieu Kassovitz, Bernard Murat, Marie-Josée Croze

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Dir. Laurent Boutonnat · With Gaspard Ulliel, Marie-Josée Croze, Albert Dupontel

In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Dir. Vincent Garenq · With Daniel Auteuil, Sebastian Koch, Marie-Josée Croze
After a terrible day, two good friends and housemates find the outside world converted into a featureless and empty white void.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Gordon Pinsent

Paul, is an ordinary man who divides his life between his shipbuilding company, his wife Elise and their daughter Mia. During a sea trip, Paul finds himself confronted with a strange, unexplained meteorological phenomenon. From then on, Paul shrinks inexorably, without science being able to explain why or be of any help to him. When, by accident, he finds himself a prisoner in his own cellar, and while he is only a few centimeters tall, he will have to fight to survive in this banal environment that has become perilous. During this experience, Paul will find himself confronted with himself, with his humanity, and will try to answer the great questions of existence.
Dir. Jan Kounen · With Jean Dujardin, Marie-Josée Croze, Daphné Richard
Deceit and betrayal rise to the surface after newlyweds survive a deadly car accident in the Moroccan desert.
Dir. David Marconi · With Roschdy Zem, Jaimie Alexander, Frank Grillo

A young woman's life spirals into chaos after she is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then she encounters a mysterious man named Evian who offers her an opportunity for redemption. Narrated by a fish.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
Dir. Albert Shin · With Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg
Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
Dir. Axelle Laffont · With Virginie Ledoyen, Marie-Josée Croze, Axelle Laffont

A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
Dir. Roberto Andò · With Toni Servillo, Pierfrancesco Favino, Daniel Auteuil

Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Dir. Wim Wenders · With James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg
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