The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2024) — watch online on iFILM. A French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel directed by Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, running nearly three hours. Pierre Niney plays Edmond Dantès, a young sailor framed by three men and locked away in the island fortress of Château d'If on what should have been his wedding day.

He spends fourteen years inside those walls. A dying fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, points him toward a hidden treasure on a remote island. Dantès walks out of the sea as someone else entirely — the Count of Monte-Cristo, wealthy and patient. Pierfrancesco Favino, Laurent Lafitte and Bastien Bouillon play the three men who destroyed his life and now wait, unknowing, for the count to arrive at their doors.

The film drew over eight million viewers in French theaters in 2024, making it one of the biggest domestic releases in years. A grand, loyally adapted version of the story. Stream The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) in good quality on iFILM.