Movies: Tahar Rahim

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an attempt to mend his broken heart and ego, he tries to seduce them all but none are re...

Set in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks. However, he soon finds himself becoming attached to the group....

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery....

Loosely inspired by Algerian hacker Hamza Bendelladj, who made headlines for stealing from U.S. banks and giving the proceeds to charity and came to be known as the “Smiling Hacker” or “Happy Hacker”....

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Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. She falls in love with men who physically abuse her. Will she ever find her true love?...

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader...

In the late 1980s, a teenager starts getting rejected by her classmates because of a rumor spreading that she’s been infected with a new disease....

Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film....

In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he starts directing, after having been an editor and a scriptwriter. In 1994, he directed his first film...

Poor Gloomy. It’s 1983, and the fact that he’s a zombie makes him an outcast. Hiding out in the forest, Gloomy has his sights on a human girl. But her uncle happens to be one of the most feared zombie-hunters in the land. Set in a surreal universe t...

A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist....

Set in an allegorical "other place" that is a metaphor of a lost Egypt. Sketching a parallel between exile and death, creating a genuine self-portrait in film, at once intimate and solemn....

A poetic depiction of belly dancers and anxiety over the disappearance of this art form that is unique to the Middle East....

Tahar is just over twenty years old, with a youthful face and a tender voice. But the carelessness of student life is not for him. Not for him, whose mother raised 10 children alone, whose family is far away, in Belfort, while he studies in Montpelli...