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Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet
Synopsis: Her daughter abducted by kidnappers who have demanded an exuberant ransom, a woman who used to dabble in stolen furs reunites with her former partners in crime in order to raise the cash needed to get her little girl back. Back in the days when Muriel, François, and René were selling stolen furs Read More
Actors: Emmanuel Mouret, Fanny Valette, Frederique Bel, Dany Brillant, Ariane Ascaride
Synopsis: While most people fall in love and then move in together, a nerdy musician manages to get it backwards in this French comedy. David (Emmanuel Mouret) is a French Horn player who has come to Paris in search of a job playing professionally with an orchestra. David is socially inept and painfully shy Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Simon Abkarian, Serge Avedikian, Chorik Grigorian
Synopsis: A crisis forces a family to mend old wounds in this drama from French filmmaker Robert Guediguian. Anna (Ariane Ascaride) is a heart surgeon who lives and works in Marseilles; her late mother was Italian, and her curmudgeonly father Barsam (Marcel Bluwal) was born and raised in Armenia. Anna has Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Anaïs Demoustier, Patrick Catalifo, Bernard Le Coq
Synopsis: Isabelle Czajka's drama The Year After concerns a 15-year-old girl named Manu. Still mourning the death of her father, a man whose strong belief system shaped the girl's world view, Manu begins a tumultuous school year that includes a romantic attraction to a teacher, new friends, and the Read More
Actors: Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride, Thomas Laroppe, Jackie Berroyer, Marie Felix
Synopsis: Claire (Lola Naymark of Monsieur Ibrahim) is a teenager who works as a supermarket cashier. She has moved out of her family's home and into a small apartment, partly because she doesn't get along with her parents, and partly because she doesn't want them to find out that she's pregnant. When Read More
Actors: Sophie Quinton, Ariane Ascaride
Actors: Patrick Bouchitey, Laetitia Chardonnet, Isabelle Renauld, Patrick Catalifo, Ariane Ascaride
Actors: Jimmy Tavares, Ariane Ascaride, Hélène Surgère, Jonathan Zaccaï, Lucas Bonnifait
Synopsis: The third film collaboration from co-directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, The True Story of My Life in Rouen tells the tale of a young French teen's struggle to come to terms with his emotional and physical development during puberty. When young Etienne (Jimmy Tavares) turned 16, his Read More
Actors: Jean-Marie Parmentier, Stephane Rideau, Carmen Maura, Nathalie Richard, Ariane Ascaride
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Jacques Boudet
Synopsis: Robert Guediguian's Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves is an intimate, straightforward look at a woman having an affair. Marie-Jo (Ariane Ascaride) is married to Danielle (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). They have a teenage daughter, Julie (Julie-Marie Parmentier). For the last year, Marie-Jo has been involved Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Eli Medeiros, Gérard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu, Tony Gatlif
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Maurice Bénichou, Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Pierre-Loup Rajot
Synopsis: A man considers the fine line between friendship and family as he crosses France by foot in this comedy. Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a cheerful thirty-something from Normandy who is part-Arab by birth and 100 percent French by inclination; Felix is also gay and HIV-positive, though the ups and downs Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Alexandre OGou, Pierre Banderet
Synopsis: Racism, violence, and drug abuse run rampant in this ensemble drama set in the southern French city of Marseilles. Michele (Ariane Ascaride) spends her days working in a fish factory, where she earns a living to support her unemployed husband and her teenage daughter Fiona (Christine Brucher). In Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Frederique Bonnal, Jacques Boudet
Actors: Maud Forget, Lou Doillon, Micheline Presle, Ariane Ascaride, Robinson Stévenin
Synopsis: Inspired by true events that occurred in France in the mid-'90s, this French-language feature explores the relationship between two best friends who come from opposite sides of the tracks. Delphine (Maud Forget) is 14 years old and shy, a delicate and studious high-school patron who comes from an Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Christine Bruecher, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Alexandre OGou
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Marilyne Canto, Thierry Frémont, Philippe Fretin, Najd Hamou-Medja
Synopsis: The third feature of former documentarist Dominique Cabrera, who is known for his 1997 feature L'autre coté de la mer, this film exposes the oppressive and stifling aspect of society. Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet
Synopsis: A couple puts faith in love to get them through times of extreme poverty in this comedy-drama that was a major box office success in its native France. Jeannette (Ariane Ascaride) is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on Read More
Actors: Claude Brasseur, Roschdy Zem, Marthe Villalonga
Synopsis: An Algeria born and raised French citizen (known as a pied noir) finds himself forced to choose between his beloved but still war-torn homeland and a new life in Paris after he leaves his olive farm and goes to France for a cataract operation. Georges Montero initially only plans to spend a Read More
Synopsis: A down-and-out group of basically decent people band together to somehow survive in modern Paris in this fascinating French ensemble piece that employs humor and drama to present slices from their daily lives. Among the group is servant Marie-Sol, who prays to the Blessed Virgin for a baby; Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Danièle Lebrun, Ariane Ascaride
Synopsis: In this crime comedy set in the interracial slums of Marseilles, the children are pressed into service to run small-time theft rings to pay for their father's drug or booze habits. However, when the whole city is divided up into two rival gangs, the mothers decide they have had enough of this Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Raul Gimenez, Gérard Meylan
Synopsis: Meant to be a record of the lives and times of several generations of a group of Italian families who immigrated to Marseilles at the turn of the 20th century, this uneven, 110-minute drama was not quite long enough or the budget high enough to fill in the gaps between changes in the story and its Read More
Actors: Gérard Meylan, Ariane Ascaride
Synopsis: When a young man comes back to his hometown after leaving a job at a port, he takes up with several other men, of varying ethics -- or the lack thereof. One of his friends takes him out to social good times at dances, other of his friends take to stealing. When the hero meets a woman he begins to Read More
Actors: Ariane Ascaride, Antoine Vitez
Actors: Nathalie Baye, Claude Bouchery, Myriam Boyer, Yveline Ailhaud, Patrick Fierry
Synopsis: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After Read More
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