Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) is a dark adventure film you can watch online on iFILM. Andy Serkis takes the director's chair and strips Kipling's tale back to its harsh roots. A human boy is raised by a wolf pack deep in the Indian jungle.

Young Mowgli (Rohan Chand) learns to hunt and survive under the watch of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. The pack never fully accepts him, and from the shadows a tiger waits — Shere Khan, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. The real struggle happens inside the boy. He is neither beast nor man, and he has no clear place to belong. The voice cast is loaded: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, with Serkis himself as Baloo.

This is no Disney cartoon. It is an adult reading of The Jungle Book built on the performance-capture craft Serkis pioneered, shot across Britain and the United States and running 104 minutes. Stream Mowgli (2018) online on iFILM.