Robert Guédiguian

Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)

Having reached middle age, a woman must choose between the two men in her life. (imdb)

When her son is kidnapped, a mother asks two former pals in crime for help. Deft plot twists, the flare-up of past romance and a secret act of vengeance keep us guessing in this nourish drama of love and loss. (San Francisco Film Society)

A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin. (imdb)

Marius is the keeper of an abandonned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again. (imdb)

After diagnosing her father Barsam with a heart disorder, French cardiologist Anna advises him to have surgical treatment as soon as possible. Father chooses to ignore his daughter's recommendations and flees Marseille, an adopted town where he has spent almost half a century with his family. He sets off for his native Armenia and Anna hasn't a clue where her father might be. She nevertheless departs for Yerevan in an attempt at finding her missing father.

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

Ever since childhood, Clim (Raoust) and Bébé (Ogou) have been in love. Indeed, such is their suitability that her parents (Ascaride and Darroussin) and his dad (Meylan) soon put aside any doubts about the couple's decision to marry so young. The only objection comes from the boy's strictly religious mother and sister, whose antipathy to the relationship intensifies when he's arrested and imprisoned for raping a woman.

In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits that her son planted the bomb. (imdb)

Today is Ariane's birthday and she is more alone than ever in her lovely home. The candles are lit on the cake, but the guests have apologized, for they won't be coming. So Ariane gets in her lovely car and leaves her lovely suburb to get lost in the big city.

Three grown children gathered at the picturesque villa of their dying father reflect on where they are, who they have become, and what they have inherited. (imdb)

In Marseille, a family gathers for the birth of baby Gloria. But despite the joy, the young parents have fallen on tough times. As they try to make ends meet, they reconnect with Gloria's ex-convict grandfather. (imdb)

The story of Samba, a young idealist in 1962 Mali, trying to spread the word of the socialist revolution and finding himself confronted by the harsh realities that revolution entails when the regime cracks down on culturally subversive activities such as dancing to western music and also as it comes between him and the woman he falls in love with.

An aging caregiver steals small amounts from her elderly clients despite caring for them devotedly and being loved in return, as she struggles financially but won't accept her situation. (imdb)

In the working-class district of old Marseille, Rosa is the heart and soul of her community, a nurse and the matriarch of a large and close-knit family. She meets Henri and realizes it is never too late to fulfill her own dreams. (imdb)

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

Two scriptwriter friends with clashing personalities decide to write a contemporary political film. Facing difficulties and traps, they stray from the plot. With their lives constantly intertwined with the story of the Moliterno and co. (imdb)