The Refuge

The Refuge (Убежище, 2022) is a Russian thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Vladimir Tikhomirov and starring Ilya Lyubimov, Maxim Drozd and Mikhail Evlanov.

Nine-year-old Nadya is home with Lyonya, a student animator doing a babysitting shift while her parents are out. A man breaks in. He's there for the girl. Lyonya faces a choice with no good option: fight back and get hurt, or step aside and let it happen. Evlanov plays the intruder without theatrics — quiet, deliberate, genuinely unsettling. The film runs 87 minutes inside one apartment, and the tension never finds a release valve. Stream The Refuge (2022) online on iFILM.