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...

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

Jeannot has Down’s Syndrome. Living in a claustrophobic suburban setting, he is treated like a child by his parents and denied any...

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...

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,...

An ambitious suburban housewife, tired of forever being in debt, sets up an independent stenography business. Finding that her clients are more...

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

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...

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their...

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...

An elderly DIY enthusiast reanimates his recently deceased wife in the garden shed. A suburban twist on the classic Frankenstein tale.

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...

Simon and Zoé meet on Tinder. They live in the same suburban town and Zoé, wasting no time, invites him right over to her house. Simon...

This film is based on a true story. Tito is released from prison. As he sits at a bus station, cars pass by. And Tito thinks back to the...

This atmospheric French independent film tells the story of a man who has traveled nearly 10,000 miles to find the woman he can’t forget.

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...

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

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...

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