The Dry

The Dry (2021) is an Australian crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, starring Eric Bana as a federal agent dragged back to his drought-cracked hometown for a funeral.

Aaron Falk hasn't set foot in Kiewarra for twenty years. He comes back to bury his childhood best friend Luke, found dead alongside his wife and son in what looks like a murder-suicide by a man broken by debt and endless heat. The people who knew Luke refuse to buy it. Falk reluctantly starts digging, and the case reopens a wound he's carried for decades: the unsolved drowning of Ellie, a teenage friend, one long-ago summer. The two mysteries braid together while the town keeps its mouth shut. Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell and John Polson play locals who remember too much.

Director Robert Connolly adapted Jane Harper's bestseller, and the parched Australian bush becomes a character in its own right, dusty and pitiless. This is a slow-burn mood piece, not a chase. A solid pick if you like simmering small-town secrets in the vein of Nordic noir. Stream The Dry (2021) online on iFILM.