Dead Man's Shoes

Dead Man's Shoes (2004) is Shane Meadows' British crime thriller starring Paddy Considine, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Paratrooper Richard walks back into his small Derbyshire town and goes looking for the men who tormented his brother.

While Richard was away in the army, his younger brother Anthony, a gentle lad with learning difficulties, fell in with a crew of small-time drug dealers. They fed him pills, humiliated him for laughs, filmed the lot. Now Richard moves through them one by one, calm and methodical, making no threats. At first he just frightens them. Then he stops pulling back. Toby Kebbell plays Anthony in his first major role, with Gary Stretch as the gang's leader, Sonny.

Meadows shot the film on a shoestring in real Midlands villages, improvising much of it with local non-actors and writing the script alongside Considine. A final twist reorders everything and sends you back over what you thought you saw. Stream Dead Man's Shoes (2004) online on iFILM.