Gérard Meylan

Gérard Meylan

Born: December 14, 1952
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Movies for Gérard Meylan...

And the Party Goes On
Title: And the Party Goes On
Character: Tonio
Released: November 15, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Gloria Mundi
Title: Gloria Mundi
Character: Daniel Ortega
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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The House by the Sea
Title: The House by the Sea
Character: Armand
Released: November 29, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Cezanne and I
Title: Cezanne and I
Character: Louis-Auguste Cézanne
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Marseille
Character: Michel Duprez
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: TV
The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.
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The Connection
Title: The Connection
Character: Commissaire Angel Mariette
Released: December 3, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Ariane's Thread
Title: Ariane's Thread
Character: Denis
Released: June 18, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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The Zigzag Kid
Title: The Zigzag Kid
Character: Inspector Leroy
Released: October 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Armed Hands
Title: Armed Hands
Character: Paul Amera
Released: July 11, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Title: Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Character: Gérard Finale
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Raoul
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
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Army of Crime
Title: Army of Crime
Character: Policier resistant
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Lady Jane
Title: Lady Jane
Character: René
Released: April 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Centers on three childhood friends: Muriel, Francois and Rene. Partners in crime (burglaries, to be precise), the three end their "criminal" activities after one of their attempted burglaries fails. They vow never to see each other again until, however, Muriel's son is kidnapped, which leads the three to join forces again to get the ransom money.
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Armenia
Title: Armenia
Character: Yervanth
Released: June 28, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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My Father is an Engineer
Title: My Father is an Engineer
Character: M. Vadino / Roustido
Released: August 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.
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Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste
Title: Robert Guédiguian, cinéaste
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Variété française
Title: Variété française
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers
Title: Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers
Character: Marco
Released: June 26, 2002
Type: Movie
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 the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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Lulu
Title: Lulu
Character: John
Released: June 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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The Town Is Quiet
Title: The Town Is Quiet
Character: Gérard
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Where the Heart Is
Title: Where the Heart Is
Character: Franck Lopez
Released: December 9, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Marius and Jeannette
Title: Marius and Jeannette
Character: Marius
Released: November 19, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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'Till Death Do Us Part
Title: 'Till Death Do Us Part
Character: José
Released: October 11, 1995
Type: Movie
À la vie, à la mort ! (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, 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.
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L'argent fait le bonheur
Title: L'argent fait le bonheur
Character: M. Munoz
Released: April 14, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Dieu vomit les tièdes
Title: Dieu vomit les tièdes
Character: Frisé
Released: May 12, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Ki lo sa?
Title: Ki lo sa?
Character: Gitan
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Rouge midi
Title: Rouge midi
Character: Jérôme
Released: July 10, 1985
Type: Movie
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Le Matelot 512
Title: Le Matelot 512
Character: Le commissaire
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512.
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Last Summer
Title: Last Summer
Character: Gilbert
Released: November 25, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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The Thieving Magpie
Title: The Thieving Magpie
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.