Gérard Meylan

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 falls in love with Henri. For the first time, Rosa is afraid to commit. Between the pressure of his family, politics and a desire to indulge in her feelings, the conflict is difficult to sustain.

Daniel sai da prisão. Ele retorna a Marselha, onde Mathilda, sua filha, acaba de dar à luz. Nicolas, seu marido, um motorista autônomo, está exausto, enquanto Mathilda é assistente de vendas em caráter experimental. Mas uma noite, Nicolas é assaltado por taxistas determinados a reduzir a concorrência desleal.

​Em uma pequena baía nos arredores de Marselha, um homem velho espera pela morte em sua pitoresca vila. A fim de acompanhá-lo em seus últimos dias, seus três filhos se reúnem para, ao lado do pai, ponderar sobre o que herdaram de seus ideais e da comunidade espiritual criada neste lugar mágico. A chegada de um grupo a uma enseada próxima irá submeter esses momentos de reflexão a uma intensa turbulência.

A história de amizade é rivalidade entre o pintor Paul Cézanne e o escritor Émile Zola.

Transferido para Marselha, o magistrado Pierre Michel logo descobre que seu maior desafio será desmembrar uma articulada quadrilha de traficantes de heroína que domina a cidade. Acabar com a Conexão Francesa torna-se sua obsessão e Michel dedica anos de sua vida e um bocado de sua sanidade à missão, acompanhando de perto os passos de Gaëtan Zampa, inalcançável chefe do bando.

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.

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 thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

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 reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.

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 in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both policies, businessmen, and middle.

Apesar de ter perdido o emprego, Michel vive feliz com Marie-Claire. Amam-se há trinta anos, os filhos e os netos preenchem a sua vida, têm amigos muito chegados, orgulham-se dos seus combates sindicais e políticos e as suas consciências são tão transparentes como os seus olhares. Mas esta felicidade vai desmoronar-se juntamente a fechadura da porta perante o assalto de dois homens armados e mascarados que lhes batem, os amarram, lhes arrancam as alianças e fogem com os cartões de crédito de ambos. O choque será ainda mais violento quando souberem que esta brutal agressão foi organizada por um dos jovens operários da sua comunidade...

Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, however, Muriel's son is kidnapped, which leads the three to join forces again to get the ransom money.

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 being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.

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

For over twenty years, Robert Guédiguian has been making films that occupy an essential place in French cinema. In film after film, he evokes the social chronicle of his working-class childhood. We witness an adventure rich in reflections on the film director’s profession, political commitment, the intimate relation between real and fictional characters, and a shared desire to create.

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 successful. But Eric's mother and brother disappear and his father remains imperturbable.

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 into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Jean-Henri Roger's Lulu stars Elli Medeiros as the title character. Lulu is a transsexual who lives with John (Gerard Meylan). One of the town drunks she serves at her bar accuses her of killing a local criminal. A detective (Bruno Putzulu) starts a quirky investigation into the charge. A journalist (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) with affectionate feelings for Lulu figures in the plot. Lulu was shot on Digital Video.

A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.

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, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.

No bairro popular de l'Estaque, ao norte de Marselha, Jeanette cria sozinha seus dois filhos com um magro salário de caixa. Ela mora numa casa minúscula que dá para um pátio compartilhado com seus amigos e vizinhos. Já Marius vive sozinho, numa fábrica de cimento desativada.

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.

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.

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

Gilbert, his brother Boule and some friends live in Estaque. Between carelessness, petty theft and social gloom, they feel like the outcasts of a society where Gilbert has no future. This is the "last summer" that he intends to spend there, dragging his idleness, nevertheless beginning a romance with Josiane, a nice worker.

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 situation and steals a few euros here and there from all those lovely people she looks after with such devotion, and who adore her for it… But after an accusation of abuse of a vulnerable person, Maria winds up in police custody.