Unseen as a lead actor until his big screen debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, twenty-something French actor Tahar Rahim was receiving audience accolades for his breakthrough acting performance ...

For deep-thinking moviegoers, there are underlying themes at work in "A Prophet," the mesmerizing, Oscar-nominated crime drama opening today in New Orleans. It is French, after all. More than anything ...

Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet” stole the show at the 35th Cesar Awards in Paris on Saturday, winning nine kudos, including film and director, from 13 nominations. Pic’s breakout star, Tahar Rahim, ...

Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) — poor, illiterate, a “dirty Arab” in the prison’s racist pecking ...

“A Prophet,” the series adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 film, will be set in today’s France, in Marseille, with a young, Black protagonist. The original movie, which won Cannes’ grand jury prize ...

Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim)—poor, illiterate, a “dirty Arab” in the prison’s racist pecking ...

Jacques Audiard’s febrile, engrossing prison thriller A Prophet opens the way tragedies often close, with a man forced to choose between his life and his soul. Malik (Tahar Rahim), a 19-year-old ...

Tahar Rahim turned the heads of cinephiles more than a decade ago in Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet,” which was Oscar-nominated for best foreign language film in 2010. Since then, he’s made his way ...

Tahar Rahim looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights. We are on a hotel roof overlooking the sea at Cannes and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet has just had its world premiere. In 150 exhilarating ...

PARIS — “A Prophet” star Tahar Rahim is set to topline Ismael Ferroukhi’s $10.3 million WWII drama “Free Men.” Set in Paris, the pic follows a young immigrant worker from Algeria whose unexpected ...

In Kevin Macdonald's "The Mauritanian," Rahim committed to realism in portraying a Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Check out the exclusive clip. Late to the Oscar race is drama “The Mauritanian,” which ...

We never learn why 19-year-old Malik (newcomer Tahar Rahim) has been sentenced to six years in a French prison. But as he begins his stretch in Jacques Audiard’s harrowing and sharply ironic ...