Heatstroke

Heatstroke (2013) is a desert survival thriller you can watch online on iFILM, pairing Stephen Dorff with a young Maisie Williams. A wildlife researcher brings his girlfriend and teenage daughter into the African bush to study hyenas, drifts off route, and stumbles straight into an arms dealer's territory.

The father is killed in front of the girl. What's left in the scorching sand is a pair who can barely stand each other: sullen teenager Jo and Tally, the woman she resents for taking her dad's attention. Survival forces them together, because armed traffickers are tracking them and the water runs out faster than the daylight. Peter Stormare supplies the menace as the hunter.

Director Evelyn Purcell keeps the action locked to one unforgiving landscape, turning the South African savanna into a trap with no exit. It's lean, sweaty, and tense. Stream Heatstroke (2013) online on iFILM.