Gérard Meylan
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La pie voleuse
Maria, who's not as young as she used to be and who helps people older than her, is living from hand to mouth.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, her spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted by taxi drivers determined to reduce unfair competition.
La villa
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. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place.
Cézanne et moi
The parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris.
La French
A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.
Mains armées
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.
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Rapt
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
L'armée du crime
In Paris during WWII a very successful resistance group is led by Armenian exile Missak Manouchian.
Lady Jane
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.
Le voyage en Arménie
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.
Mon père est ingénieur
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours
Marie-Jo is a middleaged woman living an ordinary life in Marseilles with her husband, Daniel and her daughter, Julie. Daniel runs a small construction business in which Marie-Jo helps. She also works at the local hospital. Outwardly their marriage is loving.
À l'attaque!
Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the story slowly takes shape around a poor family that has a small car repair business. Times are hard and will have to fight to prevent a multinational tear down the garage.
La ville est tranquille
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.
À la place du coeur
Set in a working-class section of Marseille where racial tensions are common, Bébé, an 18-year-old black is wrongly accused of rape by a racist cop. Clim, his 16-year-old girlfriend discovers she is pregnant. Their families become close.
Marius et Jeannette
Marius è impiegato come guardiano in un cementificio e inizia una relazione sentimentale con Jeannette, madre di due figli avuti da uomini diversi. Vivono entrambi un'esistenza povera ma decorosa in un quartiere popolare di Marsiglia.
À la vie, à la mort!
In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken refuge in a cabaret.
L'argent fait le bonheur
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 will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.
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 were children of the poor.
Ki lo sa?
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.
Rouge midi
From 1920 to 1975, the hopes and disappointments of four generations of Italian immigrants living in a working-class district of Marseille.
Le matelot 512
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Dernier été
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.