The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) is Bob Rafelson's crime melodrama, ready to watch online on iFILM. Drifter Frank Chambers stops at a roadside diner for a meal and ends up staying on as hired help. Then he falls for the owner's wife.

Cora is young, married to a much older Greek immigrant and worn down by a life she never chose. Jack Nicholson plays Frank, Jessica Lange plays Cora, and the heat between them pulls in one direction: get rid of the husband and have each other. The scheme looks easy on paper. It never is.

Adapted from James M. Cain's novel with a screenplay by playwright David Mamet, the film trades in clipped, vicious dialogue and the sweat of Depression-era California. This one is for fans of noir at its grubbiest, where nobody is clean and nobody is owed your sympathy. Stream The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) online on iFILM.