Compliance

Compliance (2012) is a thriller you can watch online on iFILM. On a hectic afternoon at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, a man phones in, claims to be a police officer, and tells the manager that one of her young cashiers has stolen money from a customer.

The voice sounds calm and authoritative, so Sandra goes along with it. She locks the girl in the back room, searches her, and the caller's demands grow steadily more degrading, while almost no one through the long shift stops to ask who is really on the line. Ann Dowd anchors the suffocating story as a manager convinced she is doing the right thing, and Dreama Walker plays the employee whose will is stripped away one instruction at a time.

Director Craig Zobel shot it almost entirely within four walls, drawing on a real string of strip-search phone hoaxes that swept American restaurants. It is cold, deeply uncomfortable filmmaking about how far ordinary people will go on command. Stream Compliance (2012) online on iFILM.