Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden (1994) is Roman Polanski's chamber thriller, ready to watch online on iFILM. Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley face off across a single night where guilt can be neither proven nor forgiven.

Years earlier, under a military regime, Paulina was held and tortured — blindfolded, with a Schubert quartet playing the whole time. She never saw a face. She never forgot the voice. So when her husband brings a stranger home, the kindly Dr. Miranda, she knows it the instant he speaks. She ties him to a chair, levels a gun, and runs her own trial: confess, or die. He swears she has the wrong man.

Polanski stages Ariel Dorfman's play inside one storm-lashed house on the coast and almost never steps outside — three actors, a locked room, no witness but you. The film refuses an easy verdict: is he the torturer, or is a broken memory hunting for someone to blame? Stream Death and the Maiden (1994) online on iFILM.