A woman who spends her days caring for people older and more vulnerable than herself can't stop helping herself to a little of their money on the side — that contradiction drives The Thieving Magpie, a 2025 French drama-comedy directed by Robert Guédiguian. Persian dubbing and subtitles are both available on K-Time.
What is The Thieving Magpie about?
Maria works as a caregiver, looking after elderly people who depend on her and, by all appearances, adore her for it. She is also not young herself, and money is tight enough that she has quietly been taking small amounts from the people in her care — a few coins here, a little more there, never so much that it seems worth noticing. It works until it doesn't: an accusation of abusing a vulnerable person lands on her, and Maria ends up in police custody, forced to answer for a habit she never fully admitted, even to herself, was theft. The film sits in that uncomfortable space between sympathy and culpability, following Maria as the people who loved her have to decide what her small, ongoing dishonesty actually means.
About the cast
Ariane Ascaride plays Maria, with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Marilou Aussilloux, Lola Naymark, Robinson Stévenin and Thorvald Sondergaard filling out the people around her — the families she works for, the people who care about her, and the ones who eventually have to weigh in on what she did. The ensemble carries both the warmth of Maria's daily routine and the discomfort that follows once it unravels.
Context & significance
The Thieving Magpie comes from Robert Guédiguian, a director closely associated with working-class Marseille and stories built around ordinary people under quiet financial pressure. Running 101 minutes, it blends drama and comedy rather than settling into either, using the gap between Maria's affection for the people she robs and the seriousness of what she's actually doing as its central tension.
Watching The Thieving Magpie on Ktime
The Thieving Magpie streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles included, giving Farsi-speaking viewers either option. This page is free to read; watching the film requires a K-Time account login, on a platform designed around a Farsi-first browsing experience for exactly this kind of catalogue title.