Gérard Meylan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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Birthday: December 14, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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'Till Death Do Us Part
Overview: 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. There is José, the owner, a big-hearted gypsy who loves cars and women's bodies; Joséfa, his wife, the establishment's stripper despite her advanced years and Marie-Sol who climbs the hill every day to visit Notre-Dame de la Garde and beseech Virgin Mary to give her a child. There is Patrick, her husband who has been unemployed for ages but who is kind despite appearances and their friend Jaco who is having a hard time. His wife and daughters hate him for not keeping up on the mortgage repayments. Last but not least is Papa Carlossa who believes that Franco still rules Spain and fantasizes about bumping him off.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Overview: A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-16
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Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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And the Party Goes On
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-15
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Last Summer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-25
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Dieu vomit les tièdes
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-12
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Ki lo sa?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Where the Heart Is
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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Rouge midi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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The Thieving Magpie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-29
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Lady Jane
Overview: After having perpetrated a serious crime, Muriel, François and René, childhood friends born in the working-class streets of Marseille, go their separate ways, until, 15 years later, they meet again when another crime is committed.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-09
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Armenia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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My Father is an Engineer
Overview: Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves
Overview: 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. But Marie-Jo has been in love with another man for more than twelve months.Marco works as a harbour pilot and is deeply in love with Marie-Jo. Learning that loving two men is impossible, Marie-Jo is forced to make a choice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-26
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The Town Is Quiet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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Marius and Jeannette
Overview: 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 check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-19
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Ariane's Thread
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-18
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Lulu
Overview: It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was seventeen, and went by the name of Lucien, she headed off for more convivial surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-05
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Army of Crime
Overview: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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L'argent fait le bonheur
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-14
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Variété française
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-19
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Cezanne and I
Overview: They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-21
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Charge!
Overview: Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem endless, they constantly stray from the plot, but the story slowly takes shape around garage mechanics at Moliterno & co. who fight a multinational in order to save their business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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Armed Hands
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-11
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Il était une fois... « Marius et Jeannette »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-05-18
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Le Matelot 512
Overview: Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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The House by the Sea
Overview: 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. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-29
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Gloria Mundi
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-22
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The Connection
Overview: Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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The Zigzag Kid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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Rapt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-18
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