L'Argent

L'Argent (1983) is a French-Swiss drama by Robert Bresson you can watch online on iFILM. It starts with a counterfeit 500-franc note, passed along casually, until it lands with someone who has no idea what he's holding.

Bresson adapted Tolstoy's short story "The False Coupon" and stripped it to the bone. No stars, no conventional drama — just nonprofessional actors and a camera that watches consequences pile up on an ordinary man ground down by a system indifferent to his innocence. The film took the directing prize at Cannes in 1983, the last major award of Bresson's career, and it remains one of cinema's coldest, most precise moral fables. Stream L'Argent (1983) online on iFILM.