Sunshine

Sunshine (2007) is a British sci-fi thriller directed by Danny Boyle that you can watch online on iFILM. Written by Alex Garland, the film is set roughly fifty years from now: the sun is fading, the planet is freezing, and a crew of eight is carrying a nuclear payload the size of Manhattan to reignite it. No pressure.

Cillian Murphy plays Capa, the physicist responsible for the bomb. Hiroyuki Sanada is Captain Kaneda, who tries to hold the mission together as isolation and paranoia chip away at everyone aboard. Chris Evans plays Mace — engineer, muscle, and the man most willing to sacrifice one crew member to save the rest. Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Benedict Wong, and Troy Garity round out an ensemble where no one is clearly expendable. Midway to the sun, the ship picks up a distress signal from the Icarus I — which vanished on the same mission seven years earlier. The crew votes to investigate. That choice unravels everything.

Boyle and cinematographer Alwin Kuchler built the film around light as both beauty and danger — solar imagery that feels oppressive rather than warm. Mark Strong's near-wordless antagonist is among the strangest in the genre. Watch Sunshine (2007) online on iFILM.