- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released (Limited)
- Release
- August 20, 2025 (in 2 months)
- Language
- French
- Origin
- Belgium · France
- Production companies
- Frakas Productions · France 3 Cinéma · Mandarin & Compagnie
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
Alpha

Cast
Crew
Producers
Levels
- Sex & Nudity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Violence
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Profanity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Algohol & Drugs
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Fright & Intensity
- 1
- 2
- 3
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Reviews
Alpha review: This outlandish horror about an Aids-like epidemic is a 'disorientating, maddening whirlwind' After winning the Palme d'Or for the shocking Titane, French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another nightmarishly weird film – but it's an...
‘Alpha’ Review: 2021 Palme d’Or Winner Julia Ducournau’s AIDS-Era Horror Parable Is Arrestingly Original and Numbingly Over-the-Top The newest film from the 'Titane' director is a gory period piece exploring a teenage girl’s coming of age during a deadly epidemic.
‘Alpha’ Review: ‘Titane’ Director Julia Ducournau Adopts a More Grounded Form of Body Horror for This Dour and Dismal AIDS Allegory All credit to a newly minted Palme d'Or-winner for having the courage to step out of their comfort zone, but "Alpha" is an insufferable misfire.
Alpha – first-look review Returning to Cannes after winning the Palme d'Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau shifts gears with a unique drama inspired by the AIDS crisis.
Cannes 2025: It Was Just an Accident, Alpha On a writer's favorite and least favorite film from this year's Cannes competition program.
‘Alpha’ review: Julia Ducournau's ‘Titane’ follow-up is set against a mysterious French plague Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani star in this surprisingly emotional family drama
The French horror film so tedious it prompted walkouts at Cannes – review French auteur Julia Ducornau’s follow-up to the sensational ‘Titane’ is a confused mess
Cannes Review: Alpha is a Half-Baked Misstep for Julia Ducournau Julia Ducournau has turned 180 degrees since Titane, the gritty and bizarre thriller that Spike Lee's Cannes jury awarded the Palme d'Or in 2021. There's no ...
‘Alpha’ Review: Love Is Trauma In Julia Ducournau’s Viscerally Affecting, Heartbreaking Palme D’Or Contender [Cannes] French filmmaker Julia Ducournau's 'Alpha' starring Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma.
Cannes Film Festival 2025 reviews: our film critics’ verdict Kevin Maher and Ed Potton round up the movies to see when they arrive in UK cinemas — and which to avoid
'Alpha' Review: Julia Ducournau’s Mournful Horror Drama Cuts Through Body and Soul Cannes 2025: The director of "Raw" and "Titane" gives a knock-out follow-up to her Palm d'Or winner that defies expectations.
‘Alpha’ Review: A Potentially Infected Tattoo Sparks a Tortured AIDS Allegory in Julia Ducournau’s Rotten Follow-up to ‘Titane’ Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes with a muddled meditation on the AIDS pandemic, squandering the talents of Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim.
Alpha Is a Striking Mess of a Movie Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to Titane is eerie, disturbing, and not terribly coherent.
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