Ripley Under Ground

Ripley Under Ground (2005) is a European crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roger Spottiswoode with Barry Pepper as Tom Ripley alongside Willem Dafoe, Tom Wilkinson, and Alan Cumming.

Ripley has settled into a comfortable life in London. He and his circle are selling paintings by a talented young artist — one who died some time ago and whose death they have gone to considerable lengths to conceal. Business is good until the supply of canvases runs out. The solution: recruit their friend Bernard to forge new work under the dead man's name. The arrangement holds until a sharp-eyed collector (Willem Dafoe) starts pressing the wrong questions.

An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's second Ripley novel, this one plants the con man in the London and Paris art world. Pepper plays Ripley's fraud as cold discipline rather than charm — a different register from earlier screen versions of the character. Stream Ripley Under Ground (2005) online on iFILM.