Frantic

Frantic (1988) is Roman Polanski's mystery thriller you can watch online on iFILM. An American surgeon arrives in Paris with his wife, and within an hour she vanishes from their hotel room. He was only in the shower.

Richard Walker, played by Harrison Ford, speaks no French, and the city meets him with a wall of indifference: the police shrug, bureaucrats shuffle him between desks, the embassy offers nothing. His only lead is a suitcase swapped at the airport and a young smuggler named Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner) who clearly knows more than she admits. The deeper Walker digs into the Paris underworld, the clearer it becomes that his wife's disappearance was no accident.

Polanski films Paris as a trap of nighttime rooftops, smoky clubs and cramped stairwells. Ennio Morricone wrote the uneasy score. The film runs not on car chases but on the slow dread of an ordinary man lost among a foreign language and foreign rules. Stream Frantic (1988) online on iFILM.