The Girl in the Café

Watch The Girl in the Café (2005) online on iFILM — a BBC Films drama-romance directed by David Yates, with Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald. A quiet, desk-bound Treasury adviser named Lawrence meets Gina, a reserved young woman, over lunch and invites her along to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik — an impulse he could not have predicted would upend his careful, orderly world.

Eight world leaders, one conference room, decisions made behind closed doors. Gina listens, and she is not the kind of person who stays quiet about what she hears. What starts as a tentative romance between two lonely people becomes something sharper — a story about who gets a voice and who stays politely silent. Yates, before his Harry Potter years, found exactly the right register: understated, warm, and quietly furious. Stream The Girl in the Café (2005) online on iFILM.