Suburb Movies

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

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...

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...

From the “integration model” to the “Islamist fanatic”, France fantasizes about these children of immigrants who grew up with...

In Paris, 25-year-old Damien has sex with men who pay him. He also has a life in his housing estate, and tries to keep these two lives as separate as...

A forgotten Polish neighborhood drowns in the haze of coal mine smoke. A young man shaves his head, dons a tracksuit, and faces his brother's shadow...

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German...

Originally founded as Freedman’s Town after the Civil War, The Fourth Ward is one of the oldest and most culturally significant black...

5-year-old Robert lives in a newly built suburban area where all houses look exactly the same.

A young man admires a cactus on his way home, much to the attention of something lurking in his neighborhood.

Kamel, a young man, living in Bobigny, france, gets fired because he is a Muslim. His encounters with an old friend, Khaled leads him to box in a...

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...

A house uproots itself from its suburban foundations and sets off on an epic journey.

Nas is a young woman from a neighborhood in the Parisian suburbs. Since the death of her parents, she has been forced to take care of her family (her...

Young girl from the suburbs gets knocked up and ends up tripping out in an East Village drug den.

As France's first ZAC (Zone d'Aménagement Concerté, or concerted development zone), Grigny is the ideal place to describe how France...

A problem area burdened by burning cars, stone throwing and crime. This is how the district of Hovsjö in Södertälje, Sweden, is often...