Napoleon (2023)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Mark Bonnar, Paul Rhys
Director: Ridley Scott
The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Drama
The story of people whose lives intertwine during a dramatic winter in New York City.
Starring: Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim, Caleb Landry Jones, Jay Baruchel, Bill Nighy
Director: Lone Scherfig
The Mauritanian / Prisoner 760 (2021)
Drama | Thriller
Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Zachary Levi, Saamer Usmani, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Drama
The story of Mary Magdalene.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, Ariane Labed, Ryan Corr
Director: Garth Davis
The Cut (2014)
Drama | History
The film is based off of the Armenian Genocide. A young man, Nazareth Manoogian, gets deported from his native village of Mardin, Turkey. After the deportations, Manoogian learns that his daughters may be alive. He travels to various parts of the world in search for them.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan, Bartu Küçükçaglayan
Director: Fatih Akin
Samba (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. 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.
Starring: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin, Isaka Sawadogo, Hélène Vincent
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Grand Central (2013)
Drama | Romance
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 fiancée of Toni.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet, Johan Libéreau
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Our Children / À perdre la raison (2012)
Drama
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Young and full of life, Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim). A wedding soon follows and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Redouane Behache
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Le Passé / The Past (2013)
Drama | Mystery
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.
Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Free Men / Les hommes libres (2011)
Drama | War
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Christopher Buchholz, Stéphane Rideau, François Delaive
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
A Prophet / Un prophète (2009)
Crime | Drama
The rise through the criminal ranks of a young orphan of North African origin, who has only known a prison life and who will become, with the help of the Corsican mafia and an influential Imam, the ultimate crime kingpin of all of France's immigrant suburbs.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb
Director: Jacques Audiard
Black Gold / Day of the Falcon (2011)
Drama
Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
