Robert Guédiguian Movies

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....

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty and a war raging all around them meant their lives...

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant...

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son,...

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young...

Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.

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...

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.

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

Ziné and Avdal are madly in love in spite of their families’ ancestral feud. When both parties finally set aside their differences and...

Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The...

Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles, a young cyclist who was passing at that...

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,...

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