Profile (2018) on Netflix
R20181h 46mDramaMysteryThriller
Journalist Amy Whittaker opens a Facebook profile as Melody Nelson, a recent convert to Islam, to study how ISIS recruits European women. A fighter in Syria named Bilel makes contact.
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- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.7/108,501 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
Amy Whittaker works as a journalist. She sets out to investigate how ISIS recruits young European women, so she opens a Facebook account as Melody Nelson and gives the profile a persona: a woman who has recently converted to Islam. Before long Bilel, a fighter in Syria, contacts the profile she invented. The two talk regularly, and after some time Amy develops real romantic feelings for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Profile (2018)
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- The film is based on French journalist Anna Erelle's book In the Skin of a Jihadist, about her investigation into the recruitment of young women by ISIS.
