Equus

Equus (1977) is a psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sidney Lumet from Peter Shaffer's celebrated stage play. Richard Burton plays psychiatrist Martin Dysart, assigned to examine a seventeen-year-old stable boy in Hampshire who blinded six horses with a metal spike.

Peter Firth's Alan Strang has built a private religion around horses — part ecstasy, part obsession, rooted in a household split between a domineering religious mother and a quietly repressive father. As Dysart dismantles the boy's world layer by layer, he grows uncertain whether a cure is a kindness or an erasure.

Both Burton and Firth received Academy Award nominations for their work here. Lumet resists resolution; the film ends on unease rather than relief, which is exactly why it lingers. Stream Equus (1977) online on iFILM.