Barfly

Barfly (1987) is available to watch online on iFILM — a raw, funny drama directed by Barbet Schroeder from a screenplay Charles Bukowski wrote about his own life. Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway lead a film that runs 100 minutes and never sobers up.

Henry is a writer who lives in bars, sleeps on floors, and picks fights with the bartender on principle. Wanda operates the same way. They find each other, and what follows is less a love story than a quiet alliance between two people the rest of the world has stopped looking for. Rourke plays the role with his whole body — bruised and funny in the same breath — and Dunaway is looser and more alive here than in almost anything else she made in the decade. This is a film that earns its bleakness by never asking you to feel sorry for anyone. Stream Barfly (1987) online on iFILM.