The Punisher

The Punisher (1989) — watch online on iFILM. Director Mark Goldblatt's action crime film starring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle, a cop whose family was killed by a mob car bomb. Five years on, Castle lives underground — literally, in the city sewers — and has already put more than a hundred criminals in the ground. No badge. No warrant.

His former partner Jake Berkowitz (Louis Gossett Jr.) is convinced Castle survived and is still out there. He's right. Italian crime boss Gianni Franco (Jeroen Krabbé) keeps losing men without explanation, and things get worse when a Japanese syndicate led by Lady Tanaka (Kim Miyori) moves in to take over the city. Two criminal organizations go to war, and Castle finds himself caught between them — forced out of the shadows to protect people he no longer knows how to live among.

Produced by New World Pictures and shot largely in Australia, this was the first Marvel feature-length Punisher adaptation — a hard-edged, pre-CGI vigilante film from the height of the VHS action era. Stream The Punisher (1989) online on iFILM.