Shame

Shame (2011) is Steve McQueen's psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM. Michael Fassbender plays a New York professional whose days are ruled by a sex addiction he cannot switch off.

Brandon keeps his life under tight control: a sleek apartment, a faceless office job, a steady churn of hookups, escorts and porn standing in for anything real. Intimacy terrifies him. Then his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) turns up with nowhere to stay and no off switch of her own, a singer who drags their unspoken history back into the room. Her presence cracks the routine he has built to keep himself numb.

McQueen films a cold, scrubbed-clean Manhattan in long unbroken takes, withholding both score and judgment. Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at Venice, and the film carried an NC-17 rating in the United States. A raw, unflinching look at how compulsion hollows a person out. Stream Shame (2011) online on iFILM.