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- DirectorJean-Claude BrisseauStarsVincent GasperitschMaría Luisa GarcíaFrançois NégretBruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there. At school he meets Jean-Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsRashid DebbouzeYassine AzzouzYmanol PersetA realistic description of unemployed young Muslims who live in the french suburbs, lost generation ostracized by the racism which slowly push them to the Muslim extremism.
- DirectorMathieu KassovitzStarsVincent CasselHubert KoundéSaïd Taghmaoui24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
- DirectorJean-François RichetStarsArco Descat C.Jean-Marie RobertMalik ZeggouYoung people and their chances of creating a loving life.
- DirectorLadj LyStarsDamien BonnardAlexis ManentiDjebril ZongaA cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.
- DirectorCédric JimenezStarsGilles LelloucheKarim LeklouFrançois CivilA police brigade working in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille, where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.
- DirectorFanny LiatardJérémy TrouilhStarsAlseni BathilyLyna KhoudriJamil McCravenYuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsMarcel BalnoasEthan BalnoasFlorence RocheEncounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
- DirectorPierre MorelStarsCyril RaffaelliDavid BelleTony D'AmarioIn the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and an ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
- DirectorPatrick AlessandrinStarsCyril RaffaelliDavid BellePhilippe TorretonDamien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
- DirectorAriel ZeitounJulien SeriStarsChâu Belle DinhWilliams BelleMalik Diouf7 guys from Paris' suburbs like challenges like climbing tall buildings and doing parkour - especially with cops/flics chasing them. When a kid fan urgently needs a heart the Yamakasis try to find a way.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsOsman ElkharrazSara ForestierSabrina OuazaniKrimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.
- DirectorMehdi IdirGrand Corps MaladeStarsZita HanrotLiam PierronSoufiane GuerrabThe daily life of a school located in Saint Denis.
- CreatorDavid NicolasStarsSaïd TaghmaouiKader AydHocine OssoukineCult animation series focused on troubles and tribulations of inner city youth in a sharp humorous way.
- DirectorEmmanuel KlotzAlbert Pereira-LazaroStarsVincent CasselDiane KrugerIzmTony and Jose are best friends and petty crooks, but tension strikes the duo when Jose falls for the rich Clemence and wants to go straight.
- DirectorFranck GastambideStarsMedi SadounFranck GastambideJib PocthierMousten, Momo and Abdelkrim spend their time letting their lives slip by. Until the day they discover an auditions advertisement in a porn magazine. From their standpoint of no girls and no money, being a porn star seems like the best job in the world.
- DirectorJulien AbrahamStarsAzize Diabaté AbdoulayeIdrissa DiabatéIsmaël Ouazzani"Where I come from, when you stop dreaming, you die." Twelve-year old Aimé, nicknamed Machine Gun, is a mischievous kid from a housing project outside Paris, where families live alongside criminals and mothers try to keep their kids out of trouble. The hood isn't an easy place to grow up, but Machine Gun wouldn't trade it for any other! And right now, like all acne-riddled boys his age, his obsession is girls! In fact, he has a major crush on Oceane, the prettiest girl in his class, and would do just about anything to seduce her. In the building across the way lives Mohawk, his best friend, a crafty kid he's known since kindergarten, with whom he likes commentating police operations from the comfort of their windows. There's also Machine Gun's cousin, Isma, a funny and proud kid who spends his days on rooftops, being a lookout for local drug dealers, trying to be like Tony Montana. And his brother Djibril, 22, the family's pride and joy, a brilliant law student who dreams of the good life and has a troubled relationship with his girlfriend Lola, a white upper-middle class girl. But the day Isma tries to set up a coke deal between his bosses and a rival gang, all their lives suddenly spin out of control...
- DirectorHafsia HerziStarsHalima BenhamedSabrina BenhamedJawed Hannachi HerziAfter her son is arrested in a gas station robbery, housekeeper Nora does everything she can to help him as he remains incarcerated awaiting trial.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsFrançois BégaudeauAgame Malembo-EmeneAngélica SancioTeacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- DirectorKarim DridiStarsSami BouajilaNozha KhouadraPhilippe AmbrosiniIn Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?
- DirectorKarim DridiStarsSofian KhammesFoued NabbaOussama Abdul AalChouf: it means "look" in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss's right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence.
- DirectorJérôme EnricoStarsBernadette LafontCarmen MauraDominique LavanantPaulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
- DirectorHouda BenyaminaStarsOulaya AmamraDéborah LukumuenaKévin MischelA street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
- DirectorJean-Bernard MarlinStarsDylan RobertKenza FortasIdir AzougliZachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. This is where he meets Shéhérazade.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsKaridja TouréAssa SyllaLindsay KaramohA girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
- DirectorMathieu VadepiedStarsBalamine GuirassyAli BidanessyGuillaume GouixA teenager teams with a friend and start selling drugs trying to help his mother.
- DirectorRachid DjaidaniStarsSlimane DaziSabrina HamidaStéphane Soo MongoBlack Christian boy and North African Muslim girl fall in love, but her family is against this union.
- DirectorJohn CrowleyStarsSaoirse RonanEmory CohenDomhnall GleesonAn Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
- CreatorDavid SimonStarsDominic WestLance ReddickSonja SohnThe Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.
- DirectorFred NicolasStarsCamélia Pand'orJisca KalvandaAdam HegazyThe story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille. Lenny tries to rap to escape from everyday life. One day she meets Maxine, a young undocumented Congolese, who supports her passion.
- DirectorMarie-Castille Mention-SchaarStarsAriane AscarideAhmed DraméNoémie MerlantA teacher manages to get her toughest class involved in a collective project that could give a whole new meaning to the lives of her students.
- DirectorKery JamesLeïla SyStarsKery JamesJammeh DianganaBakary DiomberaThree brothers try to survive on the streets of a tough French suburb.
- DirectorJean-Paul LilienfeldStarsIsabelle AdjaniDenis PodalydèsKhalid Berkouz'Skirt Day' is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adjani's first film in five years.
- DirectorKheironStarsKheironLeïla BekhtiGérard DarmonAn Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsJesuthasan AntonythasanKalieaswari SrinivasanClaudine VinasithambyDheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
- DirectorAkhenatonKamel SalehStarsKamel SalehAkhenatonHouari DjerirThe story of a group of friends, stars of a quiet life of night breaks and free time in a poor district of Marseille. One summer, a tragedy with racism as the key will fall on their lives.
- DirectorDenis ThybaudStarsDisizBéatrice DalleAlex DescasiXe, a young hip-hop writer, has close friends who all believe in his talent.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardYves BeneytonJuliet BertoA day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsSami BouajilaÉlodie BouchezBruno LochetA young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsMeriem SerbahAbel JafriRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheA peine sorti de prison, Kamel (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) est expulsé vers son pays d'origine, l'Algérie. Cet exil forcé le contraint à observer avec lucidité un pays en pleine effervescence, tiraillé entre un désir de modernité et le poids de traditions ancestrales.
- DirectorDjamel BensalahStarsJamel DebbouzeStéphane Soo MongoLorànt DeutschYoussef, Christophe, Stéphane and Mike are four friends from Saint-Denis. Today: direction Biarritz for 3 weeks of vacation. It is the first time that they have left their city. The holidays will quickly turn to delirium.
- DirectorHervé MimranGéraldine NakacheStarsLeïla BekhtiGéraldine NakacheVirginie LedoyenWho has never been ashamed of Mom's new hairdo, Dad's bad jokes, that velvet couch in the living room, a childhood friend who obviously doesn't get it? Lila and Ely live just the other side of the bridge from Paris. Like sisters, they share dreams of a new life. Through lies big and small, they attempt to pass seamlessly into a world of luxury that is not their own...
- DirectorNabil Ben YadirStarsNader BoussandelMourade ZeguendiMounir Ait HamouIn Brussels, three friends lead a life of pleasant apathy. They spend their days loafing around in unhurried torpor, bantering between each other and adhering to the theory that the fewer steps one takes, the richer one's interior life.
- DirectorErnesto OñaStarsEric JudorSabrina OuazaniYoussef Hajdistory of Arnaud Dubois, after a dispute with his father, he decides to leave the cozy nest of Vésinet. He then crosses the path of Mustafa, who presents his sister Sabrina of which Arnaud immediately falls in love. But he realizes very quickly that the only way to seduce her is to let her believe that he has Arabic origins like her and that he is called - Mohamed.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsMichael BrodieTeresa LynnFrancesca PintoA look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.
- DirectorPascal ElbéStarsRoschdy ZemPascal ElbéRonit ElkabetzSeveral lives are changed after a teenager from a rough suburb throws a Molotov cocktail on a car, sending the doctor who was in it in a coma.
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Laurence FishburneHudhail Al-AmirFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
- DirectorFranck LlopisStarsVincent DesagnatEdouard MontouteJulie DurandPedro hesitates between college and his part-time job as a cannabis dealer and other substances ...Jean-Paul hesitates, for 6 years, out of his home, lest we discover that he lives on the allowances of his deceased grandfather; so his friends took the opportunity to make their favorite squat ...Alice has just discovered love and takes the opportunity to give lessons to guys and her ex particular, Olivier, great flirty and mythomaniac before the eternal, spends his time to connect girls but especially to take rakes .. .
- DirectorNora HamdiStarsLeïla BekhtiKarina TestaSamy NaceriA teen-aged girl tries to escape difficult circumstances in a Parisian suburb by becoming a model.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheAhmed HammoudiBrahim Ameur-ZaïmecheKamel, a young man from the french ghetto, near Paris, is coming back to France. He was arrested for dealing drugs, he spent five years in jail and was banned from France for two years. He tries, with his family's support, to find a job and live a normal life. But nothing's normal in the ghetto.
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsStéphanie ToulyIliès SefraouiMustapha GoumaneTalia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.
- DirectorThomas GilouStarsTabatha CashMustapha BenstitiSamy NaceriDjamel, who is in love with Sahila, would like to get away from the boring life in a Parisian suburb.
- DirectorGilles BéhatStarsBernard GiraudeauChristine BoissonJean-Pierre KalfonDaniel Chetman is tired of the violent neighborhood, and takes on the local gangster Mathias Hagen and his tugs.
- DirectorJean-François RichetStarsCyril AubinCyrille AutinEmmanuelle BercotPierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Deborah. His everyday life is divided between a job where he is exploited, discussions with his friends and brothers, family meals and unpreventable altercations with the cops.
- DirectorAudrey EstrougoStarsEmilie de PreissacEye HaidaraLili Canobbio-MoulyAn astonishing debut for 23-year-old director Audrey Estrougo, Aint Scared chronicles one day in the emotional life of a Parisian housing project. Its focus is a group of young people, each of whom tries in his own way to express deep feelings for someone else while simultaneously maintaining the hard emotional shells needed to survive in these mean streets
- DirectorFabrice GenestalStarsEsse LawsonTony HarrissonKhereddine EnnasriDésirée, a black girl, is nicknamed "The Shark" by her friends. This nickname comes from her strong rebellion and her ability to win in the suburban city, dominated by the power of boys.
- DirectorKarim DridiStarsMarc CortesRaymond AdamTony FourmannA 13 year old Gypsy boy escapes from foster home to continue a life of mischief and delinquency during a french summer.
- StarsFrancis RenaudTomer SisleyÁngela MolinaThe Commune is a neighborhood with sky-rocketing unemployment, drug trafficking and crime, with it's inhabitants in the middle of resistance against municipal renovation plan. But behind this confrontation looms a murderous turf war.
- DirectorYamina BenguiguiA 90 minute story of the last Century in what was to become the new 93rd departement in France.
- DirectorPierre JolivetStarsAdrien JolivetMhamed ArezkiYannick NassoBecause of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that.
- DirectorChristophe HonoréStarsFrançois SagatOmar Ben SellemChiara MastroianniBetween Gennevilliers and New York, Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove to each other they're no longer in love.
- DirectorGuy JacquesStarsClément SibonyDan HerzbergMicky El MazrouiA poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsAlex DescasMati DiopNicole DoguéThe relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
- DirectorJean-Pierre SinapiStarsRoschdy ZemRafik Ben MebarekJean-Noël Cridlig-VenezianoSix young people in difficulty from the Parisian suburbs land in the depths of the French countryside, escorted by their educator. They must show their goodwill by performing community service.
- DirectorMalik ChibaneStarsJalil NaciriFarid AbdedouHakim SarahouiAli, Slimane, Staf, Nacéra and Samy live in a working-class neighborhood. Faced with problems of love and identity, they exist at the juncture of opposing worlds : the city and the suburb, drugs and work, exclusion and integration.
- DirectorAngelo CianciStarsHippolyte GirardotMohamed FellagAymen SaïdiThis is not the way it was supposed to happen. Like every other morning, Christian Echeveria, huissier, should have been able to levy his daily distress in this Parisian suburb, before going back to his comfortable home. But that's not what destiny had planned for him, as he'll get to understand it when Salem Atelhadj, 17, takes him a hostage, under his father's desperate eyes, in the tower's twelfth floor which will soon be surrounded by policemen and anti-terrorists squads.
- DirectorMartin ValenteStarsLorànt DeutschJalil LespertPascal LégitimusThe incredible and eventful adventures of two friends, in their twenties, who are happily struggling in a city, in love with all the girls.
- DirectorChad ChenougaStarsLysiane MeisAbdel HalisAimen Ben AhmedAfter her escape from Algeria in 1967, Adda lives in 17, rue Bleue, Paris, with two children and two sisters. She has a relationship with her boss, who guarantees a comfortable situation for her family. After his death, everything changes.
- DirectorJean-Pierre ThornStarsDaniel BaudonD. de KabalAbdel HaqAn epic - from rock to slam to punk and hip hop - of musical resistance from a youth and territories in loss of identity.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsLynda BenahoudaMohamed Chabane-ChaoucheKheira OualhaciSamia is the sixth of eight children in an Algerian family living in the outskirts of Marseille. Outside there are all the pressures and temptations of modern France; temptations Samia's brothers are watchful that she resists.
- DirectorYassine QniaStarsSoufiane GuerrabSouheila YacoubThibault CathalifaudMehdi is a safecracker that is just trying to get by, and day to day he tries to be a better person to win back his ex, Sarah.
- DirectorSamir GuesmiStarsAbdel BendaherSamir GuesmiRabah Nait OufellaA youth is torn between his father, a brasserie oyster vendor, and a friend from technical college, who gets him involved in a dodgy robbery scheme.
- DirectorMaïmouna DoucouréStarsFathia YoussoufMédina El Aidi-AzouniEsther GohourouEleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family's traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.
- DirectorRomain GavrasStarsKarim LeklouIsabelle AdjaniVincent CasselA small-time dealer dreams of another life but can't afford it. To escape, he must accept one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.
- DirectorHamé BourokbaEkoué LabiteyStarsReda KatebSlimane DaziMélanie LaurentJust out of prison, Nas returns to his neighborhood, Pigalle, where he finds his friends and his older brother Arezki, boss of the bar Le Prestige. Nas is determined to recreate a name and Le Prestige could well serve as a springboard .
- DirectorRomain GavrasStarsDali BenssalahSami SlimaneAnthony BajonHours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsAngèle MacHatikAhmed Abdel LaouiThe inhabitants of a high-rise building wake up one morning to discover that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange black matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsRégis LarocheAnnkristMarie LoustalotA retired army man lives in the Temple Woods housing project outside Paris, where his young neighbor belongs to a local gang about to rob the convoy of an Arab prince.
- DirectorSébastien VanicekStarsThéo ChristineSofia LesaffreJérôme NielResidents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.