Ariane Ascaride

Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family’s home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the ...

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

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the ...

Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While watching the news, she ...

Two friends with very different personalities decide to write a script for a movie. Their discussions and confrontations are constant, but the ...

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

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, ...

Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the ...

In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Freshly installed in Paris, David, a shy and clumsy ...

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 ...

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

A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives ...

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

“Fanny” is the second part of the “Marseille trilogy”, made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of “Marius, ...

Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a ...

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 ...

Odette is eight, she likes to dance and draw. Why would she be wary of a friend of her parents who offers to play “Tickling”? Once an ...

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

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art ...