The Hit

The Hit (1984) is a British crime thriller directed by Stephen Frears that you can watch online on iFILM. Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) turned in his mob associates to the police a decade ago and has been living quietly in rural Spain ever since. Then two men show up at his door.

Braddock (John Hurt) is the seasoned, meticulous hitman assigned to deliver Parker to Paris for execution. Myron (Tim Roth, in an early career-defining role) is his edgy young partner, whose nerves keep fraying as the road trip unravels. Parker, for his part, seems entirely at peace — which unnerves everyone around him far more than fear would. Fernando Rey appears in support; Peter Prince wrote the screenplay.

Frears builds the film as a slow conversation about death and composure rather than a conventional thriller. The Spanish landscape stretches wide and indifferent. Stream The Hit (1984) online on iFILM — a quietly unsettling road movie about what a man does when there's nothing left to lose.