Army of Thieves

Army of Thieves (2021) is a crime caper comedy you can watch online on iFILM. It works as a prequel to the zombie thriller Army of the Dead: while the outbreak is just beginning across the ocean, a shy bank teller in small-town Germany becomes a legend of locks.

Ludwig Dieter spends his days behind a counter and his nights filming safecracking tutorials nobody watches. Then a mysterious woman named Gwendoline pulls him into a crew with one wild target: four impossible safes built by a single master locksmith, scattered across Europe, each named after a Wagner opera. Interpol is closing in, the team has its own secrets, and the world is days from falling apart. Matthias Schweighofer both directs and stars as Dieter, alongside Nathalie Emmanuel from Game of Thrones.

Shot in Germany and the United States, the film runs just over two hours and keeps a light, playful tone where most heist movies would tense up. The fun is in the puzzle of the locks, the awkward banter and the chemistry of a doomed little crew, not the gore. Stream Army of Thieves (2021) online on iFILM.