Youth Without Youth

Youth Without Youth (2007) — watch online on iFILM — is a philosophical fantasy drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Tim Roth. After more than a decade away from directing, Coppola chose this quiet and layered story as his return, a 125-minute film that moves closer to a dream than a thriller.

Dominic Matei is an aging linguistics professor who has spent his life searching for the origin of human language — and who feels he has run out of time. A lightning strike changes everything. He wakes up decades younger, his mind sharpened to an almost impossible degree. The Nazis take notice. Dominic goes into hiding, adopts a new identity, and eventually meets a young woman (Alexandra Maria Lara) whose connection to him seems written into something older than coincidence.

The film is based on a novella by Romanian philosopher Mircea Eliade and was shot across Romania and several European countries, with Bruno Ganz in a supporting role. Stream Youth Without Youth (2007) online on iFILM.