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A Prophet
Directed by
Jacques Audiard
R
2009
2h 35m
Drama
,
Crime
7.8
96%
89%
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A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
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Cast of A Prophet
Tahar Rahim
Malik El Djebena
Niels Arestrup
César Luciani
Adel Bencherif
Ryad
Hichem Yacoubi
Reyeb
Reda Kateb
Jordi
Jean-Philippe Ricci
Vettori
Gilles Cohen
Prof
Antoine Basler
Pilicci
Pierre Leccia
Sampierro
Foued Nassah
Antaro
Jean-Emmanuel Pagni
Santi
Frédéric Graziani
Prison Warden
Leïla Bekhti
Djamila
Rabah Loucif
Malik's Lawyer
Slimane Dazi
Lattrache
Serge Onteniente
Sentence enforcement judge
Hervé Témime
Prosecutor
Taha Lemaizi
Hassan
Mohamed Makhtoumi
Tarik
Karim Leklou
Muslim in the hallway
Farid Larbi
Muslim in the hallway
Guillaume Verdier
Michka
Mourad Frarema
Khalid
Hakim Sid
Shoes racket
Nathanaël Maïni
Guard Sampierro
Jacques Audiard
Director / Writer
Thomas Bidegain
Writer
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Writer
Nicolas Peufaillit
Writer
Martine Cassinelli
Producer
Marco Cherqui
Producer
Pascal Caucheteux
Producer
Lauranne Bourrachot
Producer
A Prophet Ratings & Reviews
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July 9, 2025
I liked this Mafia movie better than the "Godfather" which it pays homage to in one scene late in the movie.
The Atlantic
Ed Koch
A Prophet is not a fabulous film, but it is well worth seeing. Although it is 2 hours 29 minutes long and its story is not surprising, it is always riveting.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
But with its lush Alexandre Desplat score, deeply shadowed compositions, and fluid, understated camera movement, A Prophet is distinctly an Audiard construction.
Associated Press
David Germain
Audiard has talked about the prospects of a sequel to A Prophet. With the foundation he has built here, it would be a welcome one.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
A Prophet is essential viewing for art-film buffs and crime-flick fans, but also for anyone who's looking for a great story, terrific acting and masterful filmmaking.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The success of Malik is sheer American dream via France: Anyone can make it if they try hard enough. Make it at what, of course, is always the question.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Audiard never overplays the new experiences facing Malik, be they violent or touching. Yet his tender regard for our complicated hero shines through.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The astonishingly good French drama A Prophet is the best prison/crime saga to come along in quite a while.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
A really satisfying, meaty film.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Watching Malik's evolution from timid and scared teenager into a self-assured and confident crime lord is downright fascinating, so much of it moving with such a cocksure elegance and grace the spell it casts is borderline hypnotic.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
A Prophet solidifies director Jacques Audiard's standing as a criminal mastermind whose work leaves genre classifications in the dust.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Although these aren't characters with whom filmgoers will have an instinctive rooting interest, Rahim and Arestrup imbue them with fascinating nuances and, in Rahim's case, surprising vulnerability.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
In Jacques Audiard's haunting prison drama A Prophet, we watch a young man transformed by life behind bars.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Rahim, with only a few film and TV roles behind him, gives a performance of startling force and subtlety.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
Gritty, accomplished take on the genre, but falls into rote patterns that are only slightly disrupted by a brief foray into the supernatural.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
An object lesson in how prison can serve as a finishing school for crooks.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
One of the most riveting films in years, an instant gangster classic.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If his two previous films suggested a director dipping a few toes in dark waters, Un Prophete marks the moment when Audiard took the plunge.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is a class of movie that operates on a higher plane than its peers. I wrestled with it. But on some level it's here to be wrestled with.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Writer-director Jacques Audiard manages to replicate The Godfather's most elusive element, not the dark comedy or the operatic bloodletting, but the incremental corruption of a decent man into a willful, coldhearted killer.
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