White Bird in a Blizzard

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) is Gregg Araki's drama-thriller you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1988 in a quiet suburb. Seventeen-year-old Kat Connors thinks her life is finally opening up — and then her mother walks out one day and never comes back.

Eve Connors (Eva Green) vanishes without a trace. The police find nothing, the father (Christopher Meloni) shuts down, and Kat (Shailene Woodley) is almost relieved at first: a new boyfriend, sex, distance from a suffocating mom. A couple of years later the dreams return, and the past starts demanding to know what really happened that winter. Angela Bassett plays Kat's therapist; Gabourey Sidibe and Shiloh Fernandez round out her circle.

Adapted from Laura Kasischke's novel, the film trades Araki's usual shock tactics for a cold, dreamlike mood about memory and growing up. Stream White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) online on iFILM.