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La Haine (1995)
, 1h38Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Magimel, Omar Sy
The film depicts approximately 19 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP – zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly. His attitude towards police, for instance, is a simplified, stylized blanket condemnation, even to individual policemen who make an effort to steer the trio clear of troublesome situations. Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. Saïd – Sayid in some English subtitles – (Saïd Taghmaoui) is an Arab Maghrebi who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends' responses to their place in life.
The Lovely Month of May (1963)
, 2h36Directed by Chris Marker
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes La banlieue française
Actors Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Alain Resnais
Un mois dans une ville, mai 1962, Paris filmé au plus près du pavé et des visages par Chris Marker et son équipe. « En ce premier mois de paix depuis sept ans », car la guerre d'Algérie s'achève avec les accords d'Évian, que font, à quoi pensent les Parisiens ? La guerre et la politique ? On évite d'en parler, l'interviewer s'en étonne même : les Français qui aimaient tant discuter seraient-ils muets ?
Daybreak (1939)
, 1h27Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes La banlieue française, Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, René Génin, Bernard Blier
The film begins with foundry worker François (Jean Gabin) shooting and killing Valentin (Jules Berry). François then locks himself in his room in a guest house at the top of many flights of stairs. He is soon besieged by the police, who fail in an attempt to shoot their way into the room, as François barricades himself in.
Les Misérables (2019)
, 1h42Directed by Ladj Ly
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La banlieue française
Actors Damien Bonnard, Jeanne Balibar, Sofia Lesaffre, Romain Gavras
Stéphane, tout juste arrivé de Cherbourg, intègre la Brigade Anti-Criminalité de Montfermeil, dans le 93. Il va faire la rencontre de ses nouveaux coéquipiers, Chris et Gwada, deux "Bacqueux" d’expérience. Il découvre rapidement les tensions entre les différents groupes du quartier. Alors qu’ils se trouvent débordés lors d’une interpellation, un drone filme leurs moindres faits et gestes...
The Cat (1971)
, 1h26Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Dominik Graf
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, La banlieue française, Films about suicide, Vieillesse, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Harry-Max, Jacques Rispal, Nicole Desailly
Un couple de retraités, les Bouin, habite en banlieue parisienne (à Courbevoie) dans les années 1970, en plein bouleversement du fait des travaux d'urbanisme moderne d'alors. Julien Bouin est un ancien ouvrier typographe ; sa femme, Clémence Bouin, est une ancienne trapéziste de cirque dont la carrière s'est terminée trop tôt en raison d'une chute lors d'un spectacle. Ils n'ont jamais eu d'enfants.
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
, 1h42Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes La banlieue française
Actors Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, François-Éric Gendron, Éric Viellard
Blanche is freshly installed in Cergy-Pontoise, a trendy new town near Paris. She has a new apartment, a new job with no one over and no one under her. She meets Léa at lunch one day, and soon she meets an acquaintance of Léa, Alexandre, who she approaches somewhat awkwardly. The movie then follows the time-honored plot of exchange of relationships, as Blanche and Lea switch boyfriends.The name L'ami de mon amie would then literally mean the friend (male) of my friend (female) or perhaps the boyfriend of my girlfriend, ami meaning friend, boyfriend in this case, and amie being the female of the word ami with the same general and intended meanings.
They Were Five (1936)
, 1h41Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Viviane Romance, Charles Dorat, Raphaël Médina
Five unemployed Parisian workers, Jeannot (Jean Gabin), Charlot (Charles Vanel), Raymond, called Tintin (Raymond Aimos), Jacques (Charles Dorat), and Mario (Raphaël Médina), a foreigner threatened with expulsion, win the main prize in the National Lottery. One of them, Jeannot, has the idea of putting the money together so the group can buy an old suburban wash house in ruins that they would transform, as equal co-owners, into a guinguette—a dancing and refreshment café in the country. They get down to realizing the project with confidence. But the solidarity of the group proves fragile. Soon enough the group is reduced to just Charles and Jean—who are in love with the same woman, Gina (Viviane Romance). The ending, judged too pessimistic, was re-made.
Divines (2016)
, 1h48Directed by Houda Benyamina
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Political films
Actors Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Jisca Kalvanda, Majdouline Idrissi, Farid Larbi
En banlieue parisienne, la jeune Dounia a soif de pouvoir et de réussite. Soutenue par sa meilleure amie Maimouna, elle abandonne le lycée professionnel et propose ses services à Rebecca, une dealeuse respectée dont elle gagne progressivement l'estime. Sa rencontre imprévue avec Djigui, danseur troublant de sensualité, va l'ébranler, mais il est difficile de sortir de l'emprise de Rebecca.
Children Adrift (1959)
, 26minutesDirected by Édouard Luntz
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
La vie d'enfants d'un bidonville aux portes de Paris, situé à La Plaine Saint-Denis.
Serie Noire (1979)
, 1h51Directed by Alain Corneau, Freddie Wong, Serge Frydman, Pascal Ortega
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes La banlieue française, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier, Jeanne Herviale, Andreas Katsulas
Franck Poupart is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when she finds out he got involved with an underage prostitute named Mona. Then he gets sacked and imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. But his streak of bad luck (série noire in French) continues because his still upset wife returns unannounced and she comes across the booty.
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
, 1h45Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La banlieue française
Actors Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet, Christian Vadim, László Szabó
Louise lives in Marne-la-Vallée, the Parisian suburbs, with Rémi, but still wants to hold on to the freedom of her single life, so she sets up a second home as a pied-à-terre in the centre of Paris.
All Three of Us (2015)
, 1h42Directed by Kheiron
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about immigration, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon, Kheiron, Zabou Breitman, Alexandre Astier, Kyan Kho
Le film narre l’histoire vraie d'Hibat Tabib — joué par son fils, l'humoriste Kheiron — et de son épouse Fereshteh — incarnée par Leïla Bekhti. Jeunes Iraniens, militants pour la démocratie, ils contestent le régime du shah, Hibat passe sept ans dans les geôles du shah. Après la prise du pouvoir par l'ayatollah Khomeini, Hibat et Fereshteh constatent qu'un tyran a succédé à un autre, et sont contraints de fuir leur pays en 1984. Le film raconte leur vie en Iran dans la clandestinité, leur fuite dangereuse puis leur exil en France. Après leur arrivée en Seine-Saint-Denis, ils s'intègrent et s'impliquent dans la vie associative locale. Leur fils s'oriente vers les métiers du spectacle et deviendra l'humoriste Kheiron.
Buffet Froid (1979)
, 1h35Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes La banlieue française, Transport en Île-de-France
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Liliane Rovère, Carole Bouquet, Jean Benguigui
The film begins with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu), a less than gregarious character, idly chatting to an accountant who is travelling home very late. The accountant, a man of orthodox social outlook and standing is disturbed by and fearful of this rambling loner, more so when Tram attempts to give him his bloodstained knife (in order to reduce the chances of him "doing something silly..."). They argue and the accountant puts the knife on a seat a few feet away behind them. They argue some more and then notice the knife has disappeared.
Going Places (1974)
, 1h57Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes La banlieue française, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Buddy films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Chailleux
Jean-Claude (25) and Pierrot (23) are young sociopathic men who travel around France, committing petty crimes and running from the law. After they get in trouble with a hairdresser in Valence for stealing his car, they grab his pistol and kidnap his assistant Marie-Ange, an apathetic girl. When they are bored with unorgasmic Marie-Ange, they decide to find a passionate woman and meet Jeanne Pirolle, a deranged woman in her forties who is just released from prison and had spent ten years in a cell. After a threesome, Jeanne commits suicide and the men return to Marie-Ange. They find Jeanne's psychopathic son Jacques who had been incarcerated as well. Then, the four consider founding a crime family but at their first crime, an attempted robbery, Jacques commits a revenge killing and the others flee. While on the run, they meet a family having a picnic near Col d'Izoard and the delinquent teenage daughter Jacqueline wants to join them. They take Jacqueline and on learning that she is still a virgin, they decide to deflower her. After dropping Jacqueline, the three ride away aimlessly.
Sound and Fury (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Bruno Cremer, François Negret, Fabienne Babe, María Luisa García, Fejria Deliba
À la mort de sa grand-mère, Bruno, un rêveur de 13 ans, revient dans une cité de la banlieue parisienne à Bagnolet. Souvent seul, il reporte son affection sur un serin qui dans son imagination se transforme en un faucon accompagné d’une femme sensuelle et maternelle. D'un niveau scolaire très bas, il entre dans un C.E.S. (Collège d'Enseignement Secondaire) ; il y rencontrera Jean-Roger, la terreur de l'établissement et y fera l'apprentissage de la violence de leur banlieue. Bruno fait la connaissance de sa professeure principale qui le prend sous son aile. Jean-Roger admire son père, Marcel, un ancien militaire devenu truand. Parallèlement à cela, Jean-Roger est jaloux de son frère Thierry et du couple qu'il forme avec une journaliste. La jeune femme est violée par Jean-Roger et sa bande. Thierry intervient, mais il est pourchassé par la bande. Le père le sauve, muni d'un fusil. Il tue trois des participants au tabassage de Thierry. Jean-Roger, qui a un pistolet, riposte et tue, sans vraiment le vouloir, son père... et, accessoirement, le serin de Bruno qui s'était échappé de l'appartement. Bruno trouve le serin mort et le pistolet que Jean-Roger, ivre, a abandonné ; désespéré de la mort de son seul vrai ami, Bruno retourne l'arme contre lui et se suicide. Jean-Roger finit en prison à Fleury-Mérogis, d'où il écrira une lettre à son ex-professeure principale.