Movies: Suburb

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

Zouhair militates with these friends to participate in a demonstration against the war, but they have other priorities... "The New Horizon Competition" Prize at the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2010....

The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as m...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that inef...

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 circumstances that led him to find himself between four walls....

A disenchanted suburban man becomes obsessed with a woman in a yellow raincoat that keeps passing by his home. Pursuing the truth forces him to confront a dark secret from his past and take a glimpse into the terrifying unknown....

Laetitia and Yéliz are two teenage girls from a small suburban town who cherish the dream of opening a hairdressing salon together....

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This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anth...

In a misguided attempt to do something for the war on terror, self-styled suburban warriors Gool, Rube and Simmo are ready to carry out their first operation, but things don't go quite as they planned....

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

A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation....

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 than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love...

Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and drugs are very much the reality, Djamel Ouahab saw many people around him dying, which led him to this project...

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 lead a criminal life. "G" marks Loran's farewell to Gottsunda but completing the film in a changed commu...

Malik spends his days trying to get attention from others with empty, boring chats. One day, he catches the attention of one guy with a lie, saying that he's going to the US to study cinema. The news quickly goes around the neighborhood and Malik sud...

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 unprecedented glimpse into the fascinating subculture of trading and raising the most deadly and exot...

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

Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki....

A Eurovision singer, Iceland's strongest woman, a male model, a plumber who wants to direct movies. They all work in the shopping mall that this documentary focuses on ... most of them want to get out, even just to the bigger mall down the road....