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A Prophet

2009 · directed by Jacques Audiard · 155 min
23,717 feet · Prominence
918th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw44

$18m worldwide in 2009 — $27m in today's money.

As released$18mIn 2026 money$27mRank4,733 of 8,589In 2009125 of 222

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise94

Critics 93, awards 29. Half each, so Praise lands at 94.

Critics93 → 47Awards29 → 15

Oscars1 nominated International Feature Film
Golden Globes1 nominated Non-English Language Film
BAFTAs1 won Film Not in the English Language
How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Cannes-honored prison film, genre benchmark.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.8 from 107kWikipedia6k views a monthAge17 years

Scored beside it · 992 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 44 praise 94 legacy 45averages 61, which places it at23,717 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi.