The Stronghold

BAC Nord (2021) — directed by Cédric Jimenez — is a raw French crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Gilles Lellouche, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Karim Leklou play three Marseille cops on the anti-crime brigade: understaffed, burned out, and operating in the same streets as the gangs they chase.

When a chance opens up to crack a major drug network, the three go off-book. Their informant has a price — one that blurs every line they were supposed to hold. The deal shouldn't be made. But refusing it means losing the case, and possibly everything else.

Jimenez isn't interested in heroes. The film is about what happens when a system puts people in positions where every choice is wrong. Stream BAC Nord (2021) online on iFILM.