Suburb Movies

Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and...

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a...

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...

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

A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.

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...

Kassovitz revisits the story of his cult film by adapting it for the stage and highlights the film's eminently contemporary nature. Recorded in...

Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman and her teenage daughter Justine are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin...

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...

8:30 follows an unsuspecting door-to-door salesman, who finds himself stranded in a desert-like suburb as his train returns to the same train station...

When the first snow turns the area around the highrises white, a new world opens up. Two boys, Sören and Anders, explore the snow and have...

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...

On a quiet summer day, Florence walks through the suburban streets she's known forever. Strange encounters, a garage sale...and a hamster to bury.

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...

A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.

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...

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world...

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 woman's fears about having children begin to manifest as visions of her dead grandmother.