Exam

Exam (2009) is a British psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Eight finalists competing for a position at a powerful and unnamed corporation are locked in a windowless room, handed a blank sheet of paper, and told they have 80 minutes to answer one question. Nobody tells them what the question is.

Director Stuart Hazeldine built the film around a single set and a cast that includes Chukwudi Iwuji and Gemma Chan. The characters go by descriptors — White, Dark, Blonde — never names. As the clock runs down, the candidates bargain, bluff, and turn on each other, each convinced they've spotted what the exam actually wants from them. The rules are minimal. Breaking them means immediate disqualification.

Shot in 2009 on a small budget, the film's entire engine is the script. No locations, no subplots, no room to hide weak writing. What makes it work is the slowly shifting suspicion that the real test isn't on the paper at all. Stream Exam (2009) on iFILM.