A humble London cleaning woman’s dream of buying a Christian Dior dress inspires her to go to Paris and struggle to make it come true.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Eiffel
Eiffel is a romanticized story of the engineer who built the iconic tower in Paris, as well as the framework for the Statue of Liberty.
Street Flow (2019)
In a housing development near Paris a college-student brother seeks to counter the influence of a drug-dealing brother upon the middle teenage brother .
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
This animated version of Victor Hugo’s novel about a hunchback & a gypsy in medieval Paris emphasizes the theme of reaching out to outcasts.
Lupin (2021)
This complicated tale of the son of a wronged Senegalese immigrant seeking just through a complicated series of plots unfolds in Paris.
The Sound of Metal (2019)
When heavy metal drummer Ruben faces deafness he must choose between fixing his problem or accepting a place in a deaf community.
7500 (2019)
Unfolding in real time, this is the story of a pilot under pressure when terrorists hijack his airline on a flight from Berlin to Paris.
I Lost My Body (2019)
Twin narratives of a severed hand on a mysterious journey and a pizza deliverer on a quest. Click the title to read my review.
Les Miserables (2019)
Don’t confuse this with the Victor Hugo plot. This is a French film about present-day oppressed minorities. Click the title to read my entire review.
The African Doctor (2016)
French director Julien Rambaldi’s true story about freshly graduated Dr. Seyolo Zantoko (Marc Zinga) reveals that racial prejudice is not just an American or South African concern. Even in France, to which so many African American singers and musicians once fled for refuge, there are pockets of racism. Although in cosmopolitan Paris blacks were accepted …