The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) is a detective thriller you can watch online on iFILM, built on one wild premise: Sherlock Holmes being treated for cocaine addiction by none other than Sigmund Freud.

Dr. Watson is alarmed. His friend's habit has tipped into full-blown paranoia, and Holmes now sees the figure of Professor Moriarty as a persecuting delusion. So Watson lures the detective to Vienna and into the care of a young Freud. While the Austrian untangles Holmes' subconscious, the great mind throws itself at an earthly puzzle — the kidnapping of the beautiful Lola Deveraux. Nicol Williamson plays Holmes, Robert Duvall is Watson, Alan Arkin is Freud, and Laurence Olivier turns up as Moriarty.

Nicholas Meyer adapted his own bestselling novel and picked up an Oscar nomination for the script. The fun lies in the audacity: the famous "seven-per-cent solution" from Conan Doyle's stories becomes a genuine drama of addiction, putting a fictional sleuth and the real father of psychoanalysis in the same frame. One for fans of an unconventional Holmes and a heavyweight ensemble. Stream The Seven-Per-Cent Solution online on iFILM.