Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds (2009) is Quentin Tarantino's war thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Set in occupied France, it rewrites the Second World War into something no history book would dare put on the page.

SS officer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for the part) guns down a hiding Jewish family; the daughter who escapes, Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), reaches Paris and ends up running a small cinema. Elsewhere, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) assembles a squad of Jewish-American soldiers who terrorize the German rear. Both threads collide at the premiere of a Nazi propaganda film, where that cinema becomes a trap. Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl and Til Schweiger fill out the cast.

Tarantino splits the film into chapters and stretches each conversation to the breaking point before a sudden gunshot ends it — the long basement-tavern standoff is the textbook example. A US-German co-production running 153 minutes, with dialogue in four languages where understanding the right one can decide who lives. Stream Inglourious Basterds (2009) online on iFILM.