The Marsh King's Daughter

The Marsh King's Daughter (2023) is a crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Neil Burger adapted Karen Dionne's novel, casting Daisy Ridley as Helena and Ben Mendelsohn as her father — a man who held Helena and her mother captive in a remote wilderness for twelve years and called himself the Marsh King.

Helena escaped that life. She built something normal: a husband (Garrett Hedlund), a daughter, a quiet house away from everything she survived. Nobody around her knows where she came from. Then the Marsh King breaks out of prison — and law enforcement comes to Helena because she is the only person alive who understands how he thinks, how he moves, where he hides. Helping them means going back into the kind of territory she spent years trying to forget.

The film works the tension between survival instinct and identity: the skills that kept Helena alive as a child were taught by the same man she now has to track. Watch The Marsh King's Daughter (2023) online on iFILM — a taut thriller built around one of Ridley's most committed performances.