La Femme Nikita (Seasons 1–5)

La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) is a Canadian spy thriller series you can watch online on iFILM — all five seasons. Nikita is a young woman framed for a murder she did not commit. Rather than prison, she gets a faked execution and a recruitment pitch from a covert government unit called Section One. The deal is simple: run operations for them, or be eliminated.

Peta Wilson plays Nikita with a quietness that keeps the character believable — a trained operative who cannot switch off the part of herself that still wants something like a normal life. Roy Dupuis plays Michael, her handler and trainer, a man whose own loyalty to Section One starts cracking under the weight of what they do. The series ran on USA Network and built a devoted following across the world long before the Nikita premise got rebooted multiple times. The original still holds up as the sharpest version of this story.

Five seasons, no easy answers, and a moral compass that Section One keeps trying to smash. Stream every episode of La Femme Nikita online on iFILM.