Director: Cédric Jimenez
Dog 51 is a 2025 French-language science-fiction thriller directed by Cedric Jimenez, built around a murder investigation set in a near-future Paris that has been reorganized under an all-seeing predictive policing system.
What is Dog 51 about?
The film imagines a version of Paris that has been split into three sealed zones, each one tied to a social tier, with movement between them tightly controlled. Everyday life and law enforcement across the city run through an artificial intelligence called ALMA, which is presented as able to forecast crime before it occurs, and policing has been rebuilt around trusting its output. That arrangement is thrown into doubt when the person credited with creating ALMA is killed. Two investigators with opposing outlooks are pushed together to work the case: a highly ranked agent who has advanced inside the system and operates smoothly within its rules, and a tired, skeptical officer who no longer believes in the machinery he serves. Their forced partnership is tense from the start, and the inquiry steadily leads them toward harder questions about how the zones are held in place and who gains from the technology that keeps the population sorted and separated.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Gilles Lellouche and Adele Exarchopoulos as the two mismatched investigators, alongside Louis Garrel, Romain Duris, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Stephane Bak, Hugo Dillon, and Artus round out the supporting cast. The performers are drawn largely from French cinema, and the film pairs established leads with recognizable character actors across its zone-divided setting.
Context & significance
Dog 51 is a co-production between France and Belgium, running about 100 minutes and released in 2025. It was directed by Cedric Jimenez, whose earlier features include police dramas set in and around Marseille and Paris. The picture blends the crime-thriller structure of a two-cop murder case with speculative, near-future science-fiction elements, using its divided-city premise and predictive-AI concept as the backdrop for the investigation rather than as a documentary claim about any real place.
Where & how to watch
Dog 51 is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. Watching requires signing in, while this page can be read without an account. A Persian-dubbed audio track is provided for viewers who prefer to follow the film in Farsi, and the K-Time interface is built in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora, so browsing, searching, and playback all sit within a Persian-first experience.