Year of the Gun

Year of the Gun (1991) is a political thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Michael Mewshaw's novel. Rome, January 1978: the city is grinding through strikes and left-wing unrest while a radical cell called the Red Brigades is preparing an operation that will shake the Italian state to its foundations.

American writer David Raybourne comes to Rome to research a novel and stumbles into something he was never supposed to see. The Red Brigades have no interest in loose ends. Andrew McCarthy plays Raybourne trying to stay alive alongside Valeria Golino and Sharon Stone in a role where her loyalties are harder to pin down than the terrorists themselves.

Frankenheimer had been building political dread on film since The Manchurian Candidate; here he strips the thriller down to close, cold observation — no car chases, just a man watching the net close around him while everything he trusted turns unreliable. Stream Year of the Gun (1991) on iFILM.