White Sands

White Sands (1992) is a crime thriller directed by Roger Donaldson — watch online on iFILM. New Mexico sheriff Ray Dolezal, played by Willem Dafoe, finds a body in the desert: a gun in the dead man's hand and half a million dollars in a case beside him. The sensible move would be to call it in. Ray does not make the sensible move.

He assumes the dead man's identity and wades into an illegal arms deal involving a dangerously smooth operator played by Mickey Rourke, a compromised FBI agent played by Samuel L. Jackson, and a woman whose angle takes Ray too long to read, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Donaldson keeps the pressure constant — a cop with no backup, improvising an identity among people who knew the real thing. Stream White Sands (1992) on iFILM.