Message from the King

Downtown Los Angeles. Night. Sirens. A visitor from South Africa searches for his sister, soon lost in the city's criminal networks and predatory social strata. Du Welz orchestrates brutality, lending a Euro-thriller bleakness to the Hollywood hills.

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Fabrice Du Welz directed Message from the King in 2017. See Fabrice Du Welz's full filmography, where to start with Fabrice Du Welz, or where to go after you've seen everything by Fabrice Du Welz.

Message from the King was released in 2017 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.