Night Shift

Night Shift (Police, 2020) is a French drama directed by Anne Fontaine that you can watch online on iFILM, starring Omar Sy, Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois as three Paris police officers handed a late-night assignment that unravels into a moral crisis.

Their job is straightforward: pick up an undocumented migrant and drive him to Charles de Gaulle, where a deportation flight is waiting. Ninety-eight minutes in a squad car. Except Virginie discovers the man has every reason to fear what waits for him back home, and she starts pushing her two colleagues to let him go. Eric resists. Aristide says nothing. Nobody wants to carry this decision alone. Efira does most of her work in silence — the camera stays on her face long enough that you can read exactly what she's weighing.

Fontaine strips the film down to its bones: no action, no speechifying, just three people in a moving vehicle and one question that refuses to stay abstract. It is the kind of quiet French drama that makes you feel the weight of a bureaucratic form. Stream Night Shift (2020) online on iFILM.