La Commune

A gritty, slow-burning urban drama that simmers with tension and moral ambiguity, pulling you into a world of broken loyalties and hard choices.

Created by

Abdel Raouf Dafri

Genres

Drama

Starring

Patrick Descamps, Alain Doutey, Olivier Barthélémy

Overview

The Commune is a difficult district which holds all the records in terms of unemployment, drug trafficking and crime. After 20 years in prison, the charismatic Muslim leader Isham Amadi decides to return to his home neighborhood where he finds his childhood friend, now the local boss, Housmane Daoud. The inhabitants of the Commune have just learned that the dilapidated buildings in which they reside will be razed to make room for new housing. Suspecting a maneuver by the authorities to cleanse the city of its most "harmful" elements, some residents, gathered around Amadi, organize resistance. But behind this politico-media confrontation looms a latent and murderous turf war: the one between the two enemy brothers Daoud and Amadi, linked by a twenty-year-old crime ...

How it feels

Dark, tense, bleak and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Crime, power, betrayal, corruption

Content

Strong violence and language. Mild gore and sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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