8.0

Un prophète

2009, France, Italy

• Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leïla Bekhti, Pierre Leccia, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Frédéric Graziani, Slimane Dazi, Rabah Loucif, Serge Boutleroff, Hervé Temime, Taha Lemaizi, Mohamed Makhtoumi, Karim Leklou, Farid Larbi, Doula Niang, Mamadou Minte, Guillaume Verdier, Mourad Frarema, Zohra Benali, Sabar Kabbouchi, Eric Badoc, François De Courcelle, Nathanaël Maïni
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Director(s): Jacques Audiard
• Available languages:
  • English English,
  • French French.

Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration.

  7.5

L'instinct de mort

2008, France, Canada, Italy

• Actors: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya, Florence Thomassin, Michel Duchaussoy, Myriam Boyer, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Gilbert Sicotte, Deano Clavet, Ludivine Sagnier, Mustapha Abourachid, Sofiane Benrazzak, Farid Fedjer, Gilles Geisweiller, Leïla Bekhti, Dorothée Brière, Michelle Brûlé, Yves Marc Gilbert, Maria Ibars Valverde, Mercè Llorens, Sabri Lahmer, Manuela Gourary, Affif Ben Badra, Frankie Pain, Emmanuelle Carlier, François Hauteserre, Jean-Claude Leguay
• Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Jean-François Richet
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.

  5.6

Sheitan

2006, France

• Actors: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Roxane Mesquida, Nico Le Phat Tan, Leïla Bekhti, Ladj Ly, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Gérald Thomassin, Quentin Lasbazeilles, Guillaume Bacquet, Alexandre Borrel, Georgette Crochon, François Levantal, Monica Bellucci, Oxmo Puccino, Mouloud Achour, Tarubi, Romain Gavras
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Kim Chapiron
• Available languages:
  • French French.

On Christmas Eve, in the Styxx Club in Paris, the troublemaker Bart and his scum friends, Thaï and Ladj, meet the bartender Yasmine and the customer Eve, and after a fight of Bart in the nightclub, Eve invites the group to go to her house in the country. While on the road near the cottage, they are introduced by Eve to the weird shepherd and housekeeper, Joseph, whose wife is pregnant. Joseph feels a sort of attraction for Bart, and during this Christmas night, Joseph discloses his real intentions.