Hey Joe

Hey Joe (2024) is an Italian drama you can watch online on iFILM. Naples, 1944: the city lies in rubble after liberation when American sailor Dean Barry falls hard for a poor local girl named Lucia. She gets pregnant, but when his service ends Dean is shipped back to New Jersey, leaving her alone with a child he barely knows exists.

Years later he comes back to find the grown son he abandoned. James Franco plays Dean not as a wartime hero but as a man who arrived too late for his own life. The Naples that greets him has its own rules, its own poverty, its own bruised memory of the war. Director Claudio Giovannesi shoots the city without postcard gloss — peeling walls, cramped courtyards, two languages that never quite meet. A quiet, mournful story about guilt and fatherhood that came decades too soon. Stream Hey Joe (2024) online on iFILM.