8 Movies Starring Tahar Rahim

A Prophet

A Prophet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-26

Languages:

French, Arabic, Corsican

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

155 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (73662 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Audiard

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Thomas Bidegain (screenplay)

Jacques Audiard (screenplay)

Abdel Raouf Dafri (original screenplay)

Nicolas Peufaillit (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

Our Children

Our Children

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-30

Languages:

French, Arabic

Countries:

Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1923 Reviews)

Director:

Joachim Lafosse

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Matthieu Reynaert (scenario)

Thomas Bidegain (scenario)

Joachim Lafosse (scenario)

Fullplot:

Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accept to give up their autonomy by agreeing to live with Mounir's well off adoptive father, Doctor Andrè Pinget. On the material level, all is well. But a house is not a home, and Murielle feels more and more stifled...

Free Men

Free Men

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-16

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1030 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Alain-Michel Blanc (screenplay)

Ismaèl Ferroukhi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. When the police catches him they set him free provided he infiltrates the Paris Mosque and spies on the rector. Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit is indeed suspected not only of providing false papers to Jews but of harboring some of them as well. Once within the precincts of the Mosque, Younes proves a poor secret agent, which displeases the police inspector in charge of him. In fact, at the mosque, Younes becomes every day more alert to the great tragedy in progress because of the Nazis. He also develops a deep friendship with a singer named Salim Halali. To his amazement, he discovers that Salim is both Jewish and homosexual...

Day of the Falcon

Day of the Falcon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-02-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

France, Italy, Qatar, Tunisia

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (8492 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Menno Meyjes (screenplay)

Jean-Jacques Annaud (adaptation)

Alain Godard (adaptation)

Hans Ruesch (novel)

Fullplot:

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Arabia, Emir Nesib of Hobeika defeats Sultan Amar of Salma after years of war between their tribes and they make a peace treaty creating "The Yellow Belt", a large no man's land that would separate their lands and would not belong to neither of them. Further, Nesib demands the sons of Amar, Saleh and Auda, to be raised together with his children Tarik and Leyla by him in Hobeika as a guarantee of their agreement. Fifteen years later, representatives of the Texas Oil find oil in the Yellow Belt and the modern and liberal Emir Nesib sees the opportunity to improve and modernize the life of his tribe, building hospitals and schools, and the American Company begins the exploitation of the oil field, violating the peace pact. Nasib sends a representative to make an agreement with the fundamentalist Sultan Amar, but he does not accept the offer. Saleh decides to travel to Salma to talk to his father and kills his two companions, but he is captured and murdered by Tarik. Prince Auda and Princess Leyla are in love with each other since they were children and they get married with the full permission of Nesib. Auda travels to Salma expecting to convince his father to associate to Nesib, but the conservative Amar does not accept the proposal and decides to fight against Nesib. Now, Prince Auda shall decide in which side he will pick and fight.

The Cut

The Cut

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-16

Languages:

Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Spanish, English

Countries:

Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan

Runtime:

138 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1749 Reviews)

Director:

Fatih Akin

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Fatih Akin (screenplay)

Mardik Martin

Fullplot:

This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day a young family man, Nazaret Manoogian, gets deported by the Turkish authorities together with all the other Armenian men from his native village of Mardin. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night the devastated Nazaret learns that his daughters may still be alive and didn't die like his wife from starvation, violence or rape on death marches. Nazaret goes on a quest to find them and travels from his small village through the Mesopotamian deserts to the sea, always looking for clues that might lead him to his children. Nazaret's epic journey will take him from Asia to America, from the end to a new beginning...

The Past

The Past

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-05-17

Languages:

French, Persian

Countries:

France, Italy, Iran

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (29974 Reviews)

Director:

Asghar Farhadi

Genres:

DramaMystery

Fullplot:

Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done.

Grand Central

Grand Central

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-28

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Austria

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1450 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Gaèlle Macè

Rebecca Zlotowski

Gaèlle Macè (original idea)

Ulysse Korolitski (collaboration)

Fullplot:

Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancèe of Toni.

Samba

Samba

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-15

Languages:

French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Arabic

Countries:

France

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (6603 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Delphine Coulin (novel)

Muriel Coulin (collaboration)

Olivier Nakache (screenplay)

Eric Toledano (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burn-out. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

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