Escape from Raqqa

2019 · 103 min · FR · 6.1 (45 votes)

Dir. Emmanuel Hamon · Starring Swann Arlaud, Finnegan Oldfield, Jisca Kalvanda, Kassem Al Khoja, Charles Berling, Ethan Palisson · Music Armand Amar

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Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.

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A harrowing, pulse-pounding thriller that plunges you into the heart of a desperate fight for survival. It's a stark, unflinching look at the terrifying reality of religious extremism and the lengths one will go to for family.

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