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- Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
- A 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.
- In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.
- A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
- Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
- The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.
- Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
- Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
- French Brittany, nowadays. Still living at home, Saïd is carrying on a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to confront his family, he accepts an arranged marriage with Hadjira. She too has given in to her mother's demands, following a romantic disappointment and trouble with the law. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces to follow their own path to freedom.
- In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth... A powerful and gripping French crime drama depicting a remarkable true story.
- Bilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.
- The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
- A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
- An 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.
- A 14-year-old boy growing up in a housing project in the South of France with his four brothers and their ailing mother in a coma.
- Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
- An immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.
- Vital is a 40-years old workshop foreman in a textile factory. He falls in love with the daughter of his boss when she chooses him for an ergonomic study, but their relationship attracts the rage and disapproval of everyone.
- In the aftermath of a crime, the victim's sister fights to obtain a fair trial and justice for her brother.
- A 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.
- Cherif hates his day job as a security guard in the mall.He is trying to get his nursing degree without success. He likes Jenny, a girl he met on the bus. His life is complicated by a band of teenagers who harasses him daily.
- Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he's certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn't turn out the way he hoped it would.
- Parisian suburbs are a multiracial society. In the Algerian family Bouamazza there is Aïcha, a 25 year old, the eldest daughter and a role model for the entire neighborhood. But Aïcha wants to break free from her community and the ghetto.
- A talented pupil derails after a medical failure.
- A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few months and work in vineyards, they learn that a new law forbids them from being nomadic. Theodore, the town's mayor, and Miss Lundi, the schoolteacher, protect and help the Gypsies. Despite this, They are arrested and placed in an internment camp. Theodore manages to rescue them and gives them a piece of property where they must settle. But the Gypsies' deeply ingrained thirst for freedom makes this sedentary lifestyle difficult to bear. After Theodore and Miss Lundi are arrested for resistance, the Gypsies decide they must get back on the move in order to remain free.
- Farid is studying to become a lawyer in France when a family emergency forces him to travel to his father's native Algeria for the first time of his life.
- The "special commandos" were Jewish prisoners who were forced to operate the crematoria of the annihilation camps such as KZ Birkenau. The oral testimonies of very rare survivors and eyewitnesses, and readings from manuscripts, written and hidden by these Sonderkommandos before they were all killed and cremated, evoke in this movie the horrors of Nazi barbarity.
- "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...
- A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
- Sam and Stephane are two friends and associates working together in their workshop designing hand-crafted high-quality skis. To promote their skis, their business being put in jeopardy by the competition from the larger brands, they take a crazy gamble and decide to qualify Sam for the Winter Games in cross-country skiing under the flag of his father's country, Algeria.
- Inspired from a true story of 1983. The story of a 1000 km peaceful march from Paris to Marseille fighting against racial discrimination and fighting for equality.
- A petty thief and drug dealer becomes determined to make something more of his life and finds redemption through music and Islam.
- Chouf: 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.
- In 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.
- South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood. The mood changes when Nil Terzi, a teenage girl of Turkish origin, flees an arranged marriage, running to the arms of her gypsy lover, Lucky Molina. Their escape sparks hostilities between the two clans. When the jousting and the musical battles begin, Geronimo struggles to quell the ensuing unrest around her.
- A young man of Wallisian origin in New Caledonia defies his father to go and play rugby in France. Living on his own on the other side of the world, he learns there is a price to pay to find success.
- When the Paris police is criticized for being biased in promotions for lieutenants, ethnic Arab, African and Chinese cops are promoted. The trio gets a serial killer case.
- When Justine Lacroix a charming TV reporter meets a seductive surgeon it is love at first sight and the beginning of a great love story. The cute blonde from Paris and the dark handsome man from Nanterre soon become inseparable although there is a little something Justine forgot to take into consideration: the man she loves is...an Arab, well, a Frenchman of immigrant background...A detail for Justine and Djalil but not for the Lacroix and the Boudaoud families...
- JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
- Just 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 .
- Jean-Gabriel, married and father of three, lives odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he quickly promises the whole family to take them on a ski vacation.
- In Belleville, two restaurants were facing each other: the Berber King of the Chouffry family and the Empire of the Dragon of the Zi family. Everything was going well, until Samir accused Mr. Zi of eating his dog.
- Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat. As they move through security checks, relationships are made and broken, tongues loosen, tension mounts? until finally a riot erupts behind bars.
- A look at the place of mothers in society and Chantal Birman's work.
- Moïse, a boy who was abandoned at birth and adopted by a nurse in Mayotte who raised him alone and cherished him until she died when he was 15.
- A little boy, Iqbal, is kidnapped by a carpet dealer who forces him to work in his workshop. With no fear or reproach, he will do everything he can to save himself and his unfortunate friends.
- Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their masculinity. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires.
- 1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mounting...
- Marwann's life in Paris during the Jasmine revolution and the fall of president/dictator Ben -Ali.