The Mauritanian. Director Kevin Macdonald's sobering post-9/11 legal drama (out March 2 on premium VOD) follows a pair of attorneys (played by Jodie Foster and Shailene Woodley) who uncover a conspiracy in the treatment of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Rahim), a suspect in the terrorist attacks who's been held for years, uncharged, as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay. Slahi's best-selling account of his ordeal, Guantánamo Diary, formed the basis of the film; he never lost hope, even as his book describes horrific experiences of torture. "You can't imagine how impressive it is to meet this man, when you know what happened to him," Rahim, 39, tells EW. "He is a lifetime lesson."