Citizen X

Citizen X (1995) is an HBO crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Chris Gerolmo and drawn from a true Soviet-era criminal investigation. Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, and Max von Sydow lead a cast that turns bureaucratic obstruction into something genuinely terrifying. Runtime: 105 minutes.

Detective Viktor Burakov spent eight years tracking a killer the Soviet state refused to acknowledge. More than fifty victims — most of them children — while superiors kept insisting that serial murder was a capitalist disease, not a Soviet reality. Every evidence report came back stamped and buried. Every request for forensic resources was denied. The killer kept going.

The film won two Emmy Awards in 1996 and remains one of the sharpest portraits of institutional failure ever put to screen. Gerolmo builds dread through paperwork and silence, not chase scenes. Stream Citizen X (1995) in full on iFILM.