The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) is a psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM, starring a 13-year-old Jodie Foster two years before Taxi Driver. Directed by Nicolas Gessner, this Canadian-French adaptation of Laird Koenig's novel is unsettling in the quietest possible way.

Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a big rented house and has an answer for every neighbor who asks where her father is. When Frank Hallet starts pushing too hard, and then his sharp-tongued mother turns up and tumbles into a dark cellar, the secrets beneath the house begin to pile up. Young magician Mario is the only person Rynn lets close enough to understand what's actually going on.

Foster owns every scene — composed, watchful, never melodramatic. The film earns its tension without a single jump scare. Stream The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) online on iFILM.