14 October 2026
Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor of Algerian origin. Born in Belfort, France, his family is originally from the region of Oran, Algeria. He is most notably known for his starring role as Malik El Djebena in the 2009 award-winning French movie A Prophet by Jacques Audiard.
Rahim has demonstrated multilingual skills and an ear for accents, having played in Corsican and Arabic in addition to French in A Prophet, and in Scots Gaelic for his role as the Seal Prince in Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle.
Filmography Tahar Rahim
September 2025
Alpha
DramaDirected by: Julia DucournauWith: Melissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh FarahaniAlpha, 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.
October 2024
Monsieur Aznavour
Biographical, DramaDirected by: Mehdi Idir & Grand Corps MaladeWith: Tahar Rahim, Victor Meutelet, Soufiane Guerrab
February 2024
Madame Web
Action, FantasyDirected by: SJ ClarksonWith: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor,...
July 2021
The Mauritanian
DramaDirected by: Kevin MacdonaldWith: Tahar Rahim, Nouhe Hamady Bari, Saadna HamoudMohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
March 2017
Daguerrotype
Drama, Romantic, Horror, FantasyDirected by: Kiyoshi KurosawaWith: Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet,...When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine
November 2016
Réparer Les Vivants
Directed by: Katell QuillévéréWith: Emmanuelle Seigner, Tahar Rahim, Anne Dorval
June 2015
The Cut
DramaDirected by: Fatih AkinWith: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram KhouryThis 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... Read more...
December 2014
October 2014
Samba
ComedyDirected by: Olivier Nakache & Eric ToledanoWith: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim
September 2013
The Informant
CrimeDirected by: Julien LeclercqWith: Gilles Lellouche, Tahar Rahim, Riccardo ScamarcioA story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.
August 2013
Grand Central
Drama, RomanticDirected by: Rebecca ZlotowskiWith: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Olivier GourmetGary is young, agile, a quick learner. He's one of those who's never been promised anything. After a succession of odd jobs, he's taken on at a nuclear power plant.
There, amongst the reactors and their high doses of radioactivity, he finally finds what he's been looking for: money, a team, a... Read more...
May 2013
May 2012
A perdre la raison
DramaDirected by: Joachim LafosseWith: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Emilie DequenneMurielle and Mounir love each other passionately.
Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds... Read more...
January 2012
Black Gold
DramaDirected by: Jean-Jacques AnnaudWith: Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Tahar Rahim,...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.
September 2011
August 2009
Un Prophète
Crime, DramaDirected by: Jacques AudiardWith: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif,..."Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Taken under the wing of a group of Corsicans who rule the prison, he's given a number of missions to carry... Read more...