Firebrand

Firebrand (2024) is a historical thriller you can watch online on iFILM, where surviving Henry VIII's court is deadlier than any battlefield. Alicia Vikander plays Katherine Parr, the king's sixth and final wife.

With the ailing Henry off waging war abroad, he leaves Katherine as regent. He comes back sicker and more paranoid, and suddenly a careless word, an old friendship or a whisper of heresy could put the queen on the scaffold. Five wives are already gone — beheaded, cast aside, erased. Katherine moves first, knowing exactly what the man beside her is capable of. Jude Law turns Henry into a rotting, dangerous mass of power, and the clash with Vikander's composed queen drives the whole film.

Director Karim Aïnouz adapted Elizabeth Fremantle's novel and premiered the picture at Cannes. This isn't a stately costume portrait; it's a cold study of a woman staying alive in a world whose rules are written by men. Stream Firebrand (2024) online on iFILM.