Gérard Meylan

Marseille

The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless b...

The Connection

Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energet...

Army of Crime

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and politica...

Cezanne and I

They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girl...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is no...

Armed Hands

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

Gloria Mundi

Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her...

Rapt

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the k...

The Thieving Magpie

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

The House by the Sea

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered b...

Ariane's Thread

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

Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves

Marie-Jo is a middleaged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles with her husband, Daniel and her daughter,...

Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder

February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victorie...

The Zigzag Kid

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, ta...

The Town Is Quiet

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

Ki lo sa?

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

And the Party Goes On

In Marseille, Rosa, 60, dedicated her life to family and politics with the same sense of duty. Everyone conside...

Last Summer

Gilbert, his brother Boule and some friends live in Estaque. Between carelessness, petty theft and social gloom...

Le Matelot 512

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

Dieu vomit les tièdes

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

Armenia

This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has...

'Till Death Do Us Part

In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea,...

Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste

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

Lulu

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

Marius and Jeannette

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself an...

L'argent fait le bonheur

How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the par...

Rouge midi

From 1920 to 1975, the hopes and disappointments of four generations of Italian immigrants living in a working-...

Une femme aujourd’hui

The life of a young woman is turned upside down after a violent assault, making her realize the fragility of he...

Where the Heart Is

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist...

Charge!

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a mode...

My Father is an Engineer

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

Il était une fois... « Marius et Jeannette »

Lady Jane

After having perpetrated a serious crime, Muriel, François and René, childhood friends born in the working-clas...

Variété française

Eric returns to his hometown to marry Edith. A beautiful summer, a woman he loves, a beautiful wedding: everyth...