The Innocents

Watch The Innocents (Les Innocentes, 2016) online — a French-Polish historical drama directed by Anne Fontaine, led by Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, and Agata Kulesza. Poland, the winter of 1945: a young French Red Cross doctor named Mathilde is pulled away from her repatriation work by a nun who arrives at the hospital barely able to speak.

What Mathilde finds behind the convent walls is devastating — several sisters are pregnant following attacks by Soviet soldiers, and the abbess insists the truth must never leave the building. Faith, shame, and survival pull every character in a different direction. The film draws on the wartime diaries of real Red Cross physician Madeleine Pauliac, who worked in Poland just as the fighting ended. Fontaine never turns the horror into spectacle — the restraint is precisely what makes it land. Stream The Innocents (2016) on iFILM.