Confession of Pain

Confession of Pain (2006) — watch online on iFILM — is a Hong Kong crime thriller from directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, the duo behind the Infernal Affairs trilogy.

Veteran detective Hei is shattered when his billionaire father-in-law is found brutally murdered inside his own mansion. He pulls in his former partner, now a private investigator, to unpick the case. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro lead the cast, with Shu Qi and Xu Jinglei alongside them.

Lau and Mak shoot Hong Kong as beautiful and pitiless — and the film earns that duality. The guilt at the story's centre runs deeper than any investigation can reach. Stream Confession of Pain online on iFILM.