1. Lucie et Maintenant (Lucie et Maintenant)
In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set out in their VW bus on a journey along the highway from Paris to Marseille that, for each of them, was to be their final one. Twenty-five years later, Océane Madelaine and Jocelyn Bonnerave set out to undertake the journey again.
2. Journey to the West (西遊)
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. "Journey to the West" was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.
It has an average vote of 6.431 on TMDB.
3. Lara (Lara)
Lara, a German au pair, recently arrived in Marseille, where a new life is beginning for her. Being an introverted young girl, she nevertheless throws herself into the unknown, into the twists and turns of a city whose codes she still does not know.
4. Notre-Dame de la Garde: Basilique hors norme (Notre-Dame de la Garde: Basilique hors norme)
(Notre-Dame de la Garde: Basilique hors norme)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Grand Littoral (Grand Littoral)
Valérie Jouve is a weel-known photographer, and Grand Littoral is her first film. Out the outskirts of Marseille, in a landscape criss-crossed by motorways, railways and srubland paths, some figures that seem to be from her famous photos passby and bump into each other. They act as our guides in a tour without beginning or end. How do you look at a place without taking possession of it? How do you describe characters without confining them within a given plot? How do you make the transition from still shots to moving pictures? this brief, musical film leaves us asking these and other unresolved questions.
6. Children of the Princess of Cleves (Nous, Princesses de Clèves)
Featuring candid discussion about hopes and dreams, love and heartbreak, family and friends, this engrossing documentary makes an inspired connection between classic literature and contemporary teen life in modern-day Marseille as one high school class studies the 17th-century novel La princesse de Clèves.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
7. Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol (Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol)
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. L'heure exquise (L'heure exquise)
In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. Pythéas, l'astronome voyageur (Pythéas, l'astronome voyageur)
(Pythéas, l'astronome voyageur)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
10. OM : A jamais les premiers (OM : A jamais les premiers)
(OM : A jamais les premiers)
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
11. Le Temps d'un détour. Marseille au XIXe siècle (Le Temps d'un détour. Marseille au XIXe siècle)
(Le Temps d'un détour. Marseille au XIXe siècle)
12. Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence (Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence)
(Marseille Story, une histoire de la violence)
13. Combat perdant (Combat perdant)
A documentary focused on the proliferation of bedbugs in Marseille.
14. La fête est finie (La fête est finie)
One year after the closing of Operation "Marseille, European Capital of Culture" in 2013, the director Nicolas Burlaud draws up a critical review of this year "exceptional" according to local decision-makers. According to him, the festivities were a Trojan horse. While the inhabitants looked elsewhere, too busy to "cultivate" during this event, the promoters seized the districts of the popular classes. An area that has metamorphosed but caused the poor to flee, unable to pay higher rents.
15. Love Actually
Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
It has an average vote of 7.117 on TMDB.
16. Breathless (À bout de souffle)
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
17. French Connection II
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
It has an average vote of 6.769 on TMDB.
18. The Infernal Trio (Le Trio Infernal)
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
19. The Vintage
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
20. The French Connection
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
It has an average vote of 7.532 on TMDB.
