Ariane Ascaride

Strawberry Fields Forever (2026)

The year-round residents in a lakeside campsite have to leave because of a sale. ...

The Thieving Magpie (2025)

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 devo ...

Chère Louise (2024)

And the Party Goes On (2023)

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, ...

Par la fenêtre ou par la porte (2023)

In September 2004, the french government decided to privatize its historical jewel, France Télécom. The exchange rate became essential and its new CEO, Didier Lombard decided to push 22000 employees to resignation. ...

Over The Cracks (2023)

Odile is getting ready to celebrate her birthday. As her kids and grandkids are on their way to visit her, Jean, her husband, unexpectedly passes away. Unable to cope with reality, she hides him under the bed. ...

The Peace and Love Process (2023)

Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace. ...

No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2023)

Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new life in ...

Divertimento (2023)

Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a professional cellist. They want to make classical music accessible to everyone and create their own orchestra. ...

Il était une fois Marseille (2022)

The heroine of this film is immortal. She is over 2600 years old. This is the self-portrait of the oldest city in France. A city whose landscapes bear the scars of a destiny that has spared it no trials. Gateway to the Orient, crossroads of trade and immig ...

The Heroics (2021)

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 baby he just had with his ex, and fights not to make the same mistakes and be a good guy. ...

Le dernier jour du jeûne (2020)

Giono, une âme forte (2020)

Les Secrets de la belle endormie (2020)

La saga du rail (2020)

Gloria Mundi (2019)

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 ...

Little Tickles (2018)

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past. ...

The House by the Sea (2017)

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 create ...

Heaven Will Wait (2016)

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruite ...

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (2015)

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 precise moment, is seriously injured. Aram's mother feels guilty and feels the need to visit Gilles at the ...

L'amore non perdona (2015)

A woman, a man, two cultures and years separating them: will Adriana and Mohamed overcome the prejudices of the world around them? A sincere love story in the heart of Southern Italy. ...

Once in a Lifetime (2014)

At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national history competition. ...

Ariane's Thread (2014)

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. ...

Il était une fois... « Marius et Jeannette » (2014)

C'est pas de l'amour (2014)

Another Life (2014)

The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who ...

Fanny (2013)

"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, per ...

Delicacy (2011)

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker. ...

The Art of Love (2011)

Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé's offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual frien ...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)

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

Les Mauvais Jours (2011)

L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues (2011)

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand d ...

La Femme qui pleure au chapeau rouge (2011)

The story of the relationship between Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso ...

Fracture (2010)

Roses on Credit (2010)

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 trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husban ...

George et Fanchette (2010)

Writer George Sand (played by Ariane Ascaride) takes a young peasant girl under her wing. ...

Army of Crime (2009)

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 gro ...

The Hedgehog (2009)

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 and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious ...

Lady Jane (2008)

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. ...

The Year After (2007)

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will t ...

Armenia (2006)

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 ...

Change of Address (2006)

In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Freshly installed in Paris, David, a shy and clumsy musician, falls madly in love with his student, Julia. He tries everything to seduce her. His roommate, Anne, encourag ...

Miss Montigny (2005)

In a mining Belgian town, Sandrine and Anna, her mother, answer an ad for a local beauty contest that could change their lives forever. Anna is convinced that Sandrine should enter, although the path to victory will have huge costs for both of them. ...

Imposture (2005)

A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own. ...

Ania's Tea (2005)

Mehdi is an algérien writer that fundamentalist violence has transformed into a potential target. How to live with fear when everything is fear. But also life. Facing Mehdi is Ania, an algerian-born Frenchwoman, the woman next door. She often appears at h ...

My Father is an Engineer (2004)

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

Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste (2004)

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 dire ...

A Common Thread (2004)

French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mà ...

My Life on Ice (2003)

Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that h ...

Le ventre de Juliette (2002)

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother. ...

Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves (2002)

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 lovi ...

The Town Is Quiet (2000)

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. ...

Adventures of Félix (2000)

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 happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix decides ...

Charge! (2000)

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 ...

Nadia and the Hippos (2000)

Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While watching the news, she recognizes the father of her child among the strikers and decides to go and search for him. But she has nowhere to go. ...

Nag la Bombe (1999)

Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people's age and death in general. He falls madly in love with Nag and enters a world that amounts to very little. ...

Bad Company (1999)

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution. ...

Paddy (1999)

Jean and Paddy haven't recovered from Ben's death. Ben was Paddy's lover but also Jean's. Their threesome filled their existence. Today, while they still love each other, Jean and Paddy are torn apart. ...

Where the Heart Is (1998)

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, ne ...

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille (1998)

Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His arrival is going to upset the daily life of the inhabitants of the house. ...

L'argent fait le bonheur (1998)

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. ...

Marius and Jeannette (1997)

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 ...

The Other Shore (1997)

This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a re ...

'Till Death Do Us Part (1995)

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, ...

False Pregnancy (1993)

Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least of his ...

Dieu vomit les tièdes (1991)

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. ...

Ki lo sa? (1986)

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. ...

Rouge midi (1985)

From 1920 to 1975, the hopes and disappointments of four generations of Italian immigrants living in a working-class district of Marseille. ...

L'Apprentissage de la ville (1982)

Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange. ...

Last Summer (1981)

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 id ...

Solemn Communion (1977)

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 f ...

Armenia (2006)

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 ...