Roy Dupuis Movies

This tough and gritty French-language crime drama represents the premier installment in a two-part series of features on the life and doings of notorious Gallic hood Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979). Mesrine is played, in both installments, by actor Vincent Cassel, who reportedly underwent massive weight gain and weight loss to convincingly portray the volatile Mesrine at various periods of his life. Director Jean-François Richet begins in 1979, with Mesrine's uncommonly violent death, whereby he and a beautiful young woman are suddenly (and fatally) ambushed by Parisian police not far from Mesrine's place of birth. Richet then flashes back to the Franco-Algerian War of the late '50s and a brutal interrogation undergone by Mesrine. Following a military discharge, Mesrine returns to his parents' suburb of Clichy, where his dad has arranged a pathetic job for him in a lace-making factory. Never one to take humiliation lying down, Jacques perceives burglary, larceny, and racketeering as much-superior options and decides to pursue a life of crime via a "business partnership" with childhood buddy Paul (Gilles Lellouche), who works for mobster Guido (Gérard Depardieu).

As the years pass, Jacques works his way up through the ranks of the underworld; via Paul, he also meets and falls hard for two women: Pigalle streetwalker Sarah (Florence Thomassin), and Sofia (Elena Anaya), a beautiful Spanish woman with whom he cohabitates after doing time in a French prison. Following a brief and unsuccessful attempt to "go straight," Jacques reconnects with Guido, then finds it necessary to escape from France to Canada with his new mistress, Jeanne (Cécile De France). Unfortunately, another prison sentence is waiting for him there, replete with brutal solitary confinement, but the possibility of a daring escape beckons. The second half of the Mesrine saga, entitled Mesrine: L'Énnemi Public No. 1 for French release, followed immediately after and picks up where this installment wraps. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

A man follows his nose into a strange and dangerous conspiracy in this offbeat sci-fi comedy/drama from writer and director Kim Nguyen. In the near future, global warming has had an unexpected side effect in Montreal -- while truffles have sometimes been found growing in underground caverns, the higher temperatures have caused them to spread as they never have before. Charles (Roy Dupuis) is a truffle hunter with an unusually keen nose, and he has a remarkable gift for finding the delectable edible fungus. Charles and his wife Alice (Céline Bonnier) make use of his talent by running a small restaurant where connoisseurs can taste the fruit of his labors. But there isn't as much money in finding truffles as Charles would hope, and when his abilities come to the attention to a mysterious fur company, he's willing to accept a lucrative business proposal. But Charles doesn't know just what he's looking for at first, and when he finds out, he discovers he's involved in a nefarious scheme with not just international but interstellar implications. Truffe receives its United States premiere at the 2009 Cinequest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Robert Budreau's noirish thriller That Beautiful Somewhere stars Roy Dupris as Conk Adams, a police detective still nursing psychological scars from his time in the military. When an unidentified body turns up, he must work with an archeologist (Jane McGregor) who suffers from a physical ailment. Soon the pair bond over work and their health problems, and an Aboriginal mystic offers clues to the identity of the body. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

A desperate young woman enters into a relationship that threatens to destroy any chance she ever had for true happiness in this period drama from Canada. Donalda Laloge's (Karine Vanasse) fiancé Alexis (Roy Dupuis) was away working in a labor camp when her father declared bankruptcy, and her life was changed forever. When wealthy, churlish Mayor Séraphin Poudrier (Pierre Lebeau) agrees to pay off her father's debts in exchange for her hand in marriage, the young women reluctantly submits. Later, when Alexis returns home to find his future bride in the arms of another man, he recognizes the complexity of the predicament, and struggles with his initial instincts to win her back. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

It appears as though secret agent Nikita (Peta Wilson) has been permanently "reprogrammed" for evil rather than good as La Femme Nikita launches its fourth season. Hoping to save Nikita from herself -- not to mention the retribution of the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One -- her partner/lover, Michael (Roy Dupuis), races against time to reverse the reprogramming process. Meanwhile, "Operations" (Eugene Robert Glazer), Section One's head man, has determined that Michael is completely expendable and has set the wheels in motion to "cancel" him. In the course of season four, Nikita is given the opportunity to quit Section One forever and to live the life of a free woman. All she has to do is murder Operations -- and to bind the bargain, Nikita is told that her sinister boss is the man who killed her father. Meanwhile, Michael hopes to mend fences with his estranged wife, Elena (Samia Shoab), and son, Adam (Evan Caravella). The season finale finds both Nikita and Michael on the run from Section One's assassins...while Madeline (Alberta Watson), the Section One officer who has been even more of a thorn in the couple's side than the redoubtable Operations, commits a drastic act when her past misdeeds finally catch up with her. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Season one of La Femme Nikita ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, as heroine Nikita (Peta Wilson), who has been forced on threat of death to join the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One, was given the opportunity to escape her penury by her fellow agent, and lover, Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis). Season two begins with a "free" Nikita on the run from Section One, working incognito as a waitress -- but not for long. Captured by the sinister "Freedom League," Nikita is used as bait to draw Michael into a trap...and without giving anything else away, it can be noted that they both manage to wriggle out of this predicament and survive for the balance of the season. Back in the clutches of Section One, Nikita ruefully resumes her espionage career, performing acts ranging from sabotage to abduction for the "good of the service." It is increasingly clear that Section One head man "Operations" (Eugene Robert Glazer) considers his agents totally expendable, and is even willing to kill people like Nikita and Michael himself in order to successfully pull off a delicate mission. Somehow, Nikita survives attacks from both within and without Section One, and is promoted to team leader, an honor which understandably doesn't impress her too much since she is now an even bigger target for extermination than before. The second season ends with a two-part cliffhanger, in which Nikita must choose between saving Michael's life or preventing the disgruntled creator of Section One from destroying the organization and everyone in it! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The Section One team is forced to abandon a wounded Michael (Roy Dupuis) after a botched operation in Eastern Europe. Nikita (Peta Wilson) is all for returning to rescue Michael, but is told that such an undertaking would be "too risky." (Hmmm...Why hasn't such a possibility ever bothered Nikita's superiors in the past?) Meanwhile, Michael must depend upon the kindness of Angie (Nancy Beatty), a nurse he has been forced to kidnap, if he hopes to elude the minions of Secret Police head Petrosian (Nigel Bennett). But nothing is entirely what it seems, with friends becoming enemies and vice versa in a dizzying kaleidoscope of plot twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The Registry, a computer program listing all Section One members throughout the world, is stolen by a terrorist who intends to auction off the list to the highest bidder. Tracking the terrorist to Prague, Michael (Roy Dupuis) discovers that the list has been planted on a supposedly innocent bystander, an architect named Gray Wellman (Callum Keith Rennie). Assigned to retrieve the Registry by playing up to Wellman, Nikita (Peta Wilson) falls in love with the man -- thereby placing both their lives in danger. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

To retrieve "The Book," a file crucial to Section One security, Michael (Roy Dupuis) goes after David Fanning (Douglas O'Keeffe), the terrorist who has stolen The Book, and intends to turn it over to the enemy. As part of his strategy, Michael becomes close to Lisa Fanning (Yvonne Scio), David's abused wife. The plan may be compromised when Nikita (Peta Wilson) worries that the already unstable Lisa may be pushed over the edge by Michael and David's high-stakes game playing. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Nikita (Peta Wilson) is ordered by her manipulative superior Madeline (Alberta Watson) to evaluate the performance of Section One recruit Karyn (Felicity Waterman). If Karyn passes inspection, she will be welcomed into the organization; if she isn't quite ready, however, Karyn will be "canceled" -- and Nikita will have to make this difficult decision. Further complicating matters are some serious unresolved issues between Karyn and her mentor Brian (Markus Parilo). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

While on an undercover mission, Nikita (Peta Wilson) is attacked by a serial rapist/killer. Having long been in pursuit of the perpetrator, Detective Marco O'Brien (Stephen Shellen) demands that Nikita testify in court. But if she talks, her cover will be blown and Section One's mission to neutralize a Yugoslav terrorist will be aborted. Thus, Nikita is now expendable -- and so is O'Brien. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi