An Unknown Enemy (Seasons 1–2)

An Unknown Enemy (Un Extraño Enemigo, 2018) — watch online on iFILM this Mexican political thriller series directed by Gabriel Ripstein. Fernando Barrientos runs Mexico's national security directorate — its secret police — and what he already has isn't enough. He wants the top seat in the country.

Getting there means a string of calculated betrayals, backroom deals, and violence. Nobody in Barrientos's orbit is immune: not his rivals, not the people who trust him, not his own family. Daniel Giménez Cacho plays him with a stillness that makes each move feel inevitable rather than impulsive. Ripstein constructs the series as a cold study of how men like Barrientos actually operate inside a system built to reward exactly that behavior.

Quiet and methodical — no shootout every episode, just the grinding machinery of institutional power working exactly as designed. Stream An Unknown Enemy (2018) online on iFILM.