Tahar Rahim
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

A Prophet
(2009)From the acclaimed director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard brings us the winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, France’s official selection for the 2010 Academy awards and winner of the London Film Festival 2009 Award for Best Film. Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving in prison at the age of 19 he is much younger and more fragile than the other convicts. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans…

The Mauritanian
(2021)Directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on the NY Times best-selling memoir 'Guantánamo Diary' by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, this is the inspiring true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.

Our Children
(2012)When Mounir and Murielle face financial straits, they move their family in with Mounir’s doctor father but give up their independence in the process.

Free Men
(2011)In WWII France, an Algerian back marketeer risks his life when he joins the Paris Mosque in a clandestine mission to help Jews escape the Nazis.

Heal the Living
(2016)It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs.

The Cut
(2014)In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide, but loses his family and faith. When he learns his twin daughters may be alive, he embarks on a quest to find them. The final installment in Fatih Akin’s Love, Death and the Devil trilogy.
The Anarchists
(2015)Paris 1899. Corporal Jean Albertini, an orphan of humble origins, is chosen to infiltrate a band of anarchists. For him, it's a chance to move up the ranks. But forced to compromise without respite, Jean is increasingly divided. On one hand, he delivers incriminating intelligence reports to his superior, Gaspard. On the other, he feels himself developing genuine feelings for the anarchists.

Daguerrotype
(2016)Unskilled Jean is hired as the assistant to grieving photographer Stéphane. After falling in love with Marie, Stéphane's daughter and muse, the two must hatch a plot to leave Stéphane's haunted world behind them.

The Informant
(2013)In order to free his family from financial worries, Marc Duval (Gilles Lellouche), a Frenchman expatriated to Gibraltar, becomes a spy for French customs. From petty trafficking to shady cargo, he progressively wins the trust of Claudio Pasco Lanfredi (Riccardo Scamarcio), a powerful cocaine importer tied to the dangerous Columbian cartels. This in-depth immersion in the world of drug trafficking forces Marc to take increasing risks. But, as he rises in the cartel hierarchy, he also discovers easy money, temptation and a luxury lifestyle. Permanently living on a knife edge, only his lies keep him alive. When English customs join the game to arrest Lanfredi, it becomes even more dangerous and Marc's family risks paying the price.

Alpha
(2025)Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Grand Central
(2013)Tahar Rahim stars as a young man compulsively attracted to danger. He becomes a subcontractor at a French nuclear facility, where he is exposed to deadly radiation levels. He is transformed by his passionate and forbidden affair with a woman he meets at the plant.

The Past
(2013)An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

Samba
(2014)Romance blossoms between an undocumented Senegalese immigrant working in Paris and the insomniac caseworker trying to keep him in the country.

The Kindness of Strangers
(2019)A heart-warming tale of love and life with a stellar cast including Bill Nighy, Andrea Riseborough and Zoe Kazan. In New York City, six strangers' lives intersect in a story of ordinary people struggling to find help, hope and love. As the unlikely group comes together, they discover that liberation and triumph lie in each other's hands.

Napoleon
(2023)A personal look at the French military leader’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to emperor. The story is viewed through the prism of Napoleon’s addictive, volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.

Black Gold
(2011)On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man's land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar's two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion.

Madame Web
(2024)Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines.

The Eagle
(2011)HD. A Roman soldier ventures into treacherous British lands to recover an icon--and his family's pride--in this historical adventure.

Mary Magdalene
(2018)After fleeing a betrothal, the free-spirited Mary Magdalene finds a new sense of purpose as a disciple of radical religious leader Jesus.