Capital

Capital (Le Capital, 2012) is a French thriller-drama from Costa-Gavras you can watch online on iFILM. It follows Marc Tourneuil, a mid-level functionary who is suddenly dropped into the chief executive's chair at one of Europe's biggest banks. Everyone expects a puppet. He has other plans.

Tourneuil, played by Gad Elmaleh, develops a taste for power fast, and his creed is brutally honest: rob the poor, pay the rich. Across the table sits an American hedge fund hungry to swallow the bank, fronted by a coolly menacing Gabriel Byrne. What follows is a chess match of bribes, layoffs and market bets where the human cost barely slows anyone down. Costa-Gavras, the veteran of political cinema, turns the post-2008 finance world into sharp satire — no car chases, just the dread of a boardroom deciding thousands of fates. Smart, acidic filmmaking for viewers who like a thriller aimed at the system rather than a single villain. Stream Capital (2012) online on iFILM.