Johnny Handsome

Johnny Handsome (1989) is a Walter Hill crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. John Sedley has been called Handsome his whole life as a cruel joke — his face is deformed from birth. When his partners Sunny and Rafe double-cross him on a jewelry heist and gun down his only friend, John takes the fall and keeps his mouth shut, refusing to name a soul.

Behind bars, a surgeon offers him something strange: a brand-new face. The man who walks out of prison looks like nobody John ever was, carries another name, and hides a single purpose behind a polite smile — revenge. Mickey Rourke plays the long con under a mask of going straight, shadowed by a worn-out detective, played by Morgan Freeman, who doesn't buy the reformed act for a second.

Hill shoots New Orleans hard and shadowy, pure neo-noir, with Ellen Barkin, Forest Whitaker and Lance Henriksen rounding out the cast and Ry Cooder supplying the hypnotic slide-guitar score. This one's for viewers who like a hero who can't outrun his own past. Stream Johnny Handsome (1989) online on iFILM.