Suburb Movies

An unhappy housewife is visited by a bicycle-riding stranger with wish-making cookies.

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag...

After his wife's death a middle-aged man and his friends become increasingly agitated and violent towards the suburbs they inhabit.

A film about the controversial world of exotic animal ownership within the suburbs of the United States. "The Elephant in the Living Room" offers an...

In Saint-Denis, at the Stade de France district leisure center, the time for the fair comes with summer. The day before D-Day, at the Koné's,...

Karma tells the story of a group of three childhood friends: Koffi, Chris, and Ahmess. While building his career as a rapper, Ahmess decides, on the...

Mannequins examines the suburb as a state-of-mind through the eyes of a 7th grade teenage girl.

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is...

After a year in Paris and having failed his entrance exams, Slim is forced to return to his small village in Isère. There, he reunites with...

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of...

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

The film takes place in a Parisian suburb and brings us into the closest possible contact with the people who live here and takes us into the privacy...

Loran, a filmmaker from the notorious suburb Gottsunda, grapples with the desire to move away but is torn by loyalty to his childhood friends who...

Between 1990 and 1993, at a time when rap was not yet on the radio in France, Olivier Cachin hosted a musical TV show on M6 called "RapLine". The...

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky...