The Cry of the Owl

The Cry of the Owl (2009) is a brooding mystery thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A newly divorced painter spies on a stranger through her window — until the day she catches him and invites him in for coffee.

Robert (Paddy Considine) has fled New York for small-town Pennsylvania, trying to outrun a wrecked marriage and a fragile mind. The calm doesn't hold. Jenny (Julia Stiles), the woman he's been watching, lets him into her life instead of calling the police. Then her boyfriend disappears, suspicion falls on the outsider, and Robert senses he's being steered into a plot bigger than himself.

Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel by director Jamie Thraves, the film trades twists for dread — a slow chill rather than a thrill ride. Stream The Cry of the Owl online on iFILM.