FrameThrower · Actors · Tahar Rahim
Tahar Rahim
3 films · 302 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2021–2024
Born 4 July 1981 · Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France
Tahar Rahim is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He has since starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018). garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 302 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2021–2024
- César Award for Best Actor2010
- César Award for Best Male Revelation2010
- Officer of Arts and Letters2017
- European Film Award for Best Actor2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 302 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tahar takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Tahar takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 302 frames from Tahar Rahim's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.