Gérard Meylan Movies

À la vie, à la mort ! (1995) In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karin Viard

In Marseille, Rosa, 60, dedicated her life to family and politics with the same sense of duty. Everyone considers her unwavering, until the day she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Gilbert, his brother Boule and some friends live in Estaque. Between carelessness, petty theft and social gloom, they feel like the outcasts of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gérard Meylan

Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor.

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Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin

A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

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Cast: Gérard Meylan

Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth. She can't quite accept her precarious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal"...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Ariane is having her birthday party but no one comes. She decides to leave at the seaside and take part with her life that disappointed her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elli Medeiros

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant...

Genre: War

Cast: Simon Abkarian

How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Banderet

Eric returns to his hometown to marry Edith. A beautiful summer, a woman he loves, a beautiful wedding: everything is in place for the party to be...

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Cast: Hélène Fillières

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guillaume Gallienne

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roschdy Zem

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Guédiguian

Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dominique Sanda

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariane Ascaride

For over twenty years, Robert Guédiguian has been making films that occupy an essential place in French cinema. In film after film, he evokes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Guédiguian

Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jean Dujardin

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest...

Genre: Family

Cast: Thomas Simon