Dear Child (Season 1)

Dear Child (Liebes Kind, 2023) is a German Netflix crime series you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Isabel Kleefeld and Julian Pörksen, with Kim Riedle, Haley Louise Jones and Naila Schubert leading the cast.

A woman stumbles onto a motorway outside Munich in the middle of the night. She's injured, disoriented, and accompanied by a child who speaks with unusual precision about rules she has always followed. Detectives find her story mirrors the cold case of a woman who vanished thirteen years earlier — a case that was never solved. What slowly comes into focus is a years-long system of confinement, control and survival that is far more complex than the initial crime scene suggests.

Based on a novel by Roma Kark, the series hit Netflix in 2023 and climbed the platform's charts across dozens of countries. Directors Kleefeld and Pörksen build dread through restraint — long silences, careful framing, and a child whose calm is more unsettling than any screaming scene. Stream Dear Child online on iFILM.