Naked

Naked (1993) is Mike Leigh's British drama you can watch online on iFILM. At its center is Johnny (David Thewlis), a bitter, bookish, dangerous drifter who flees Manchester for the dark streets of London.

Johnny wants no job and no peace. He barges back into the life of his ex Louise, preys on her flatmate Sophie, and corners strangers in the empty night — a security guard, a bill-poster, a homeless couple — dragging each one into a cruel, runaway argument about God, the end of the world and the point of anything at all. Leigh's London is cold and hostile, and his antihero repels and fascinates in the same breath.

Thewlis took Best Actor at Cannes for the role, and Leigh won the festival's directing prize. Built through Leigh's improvisational rehearsal method and a merciless script, the film stands among the harshest portraits of despair in British cinema. Stream Naked (1993) online on iFILM.