The Honourable Woman (Season 1)

The Honourable Woman (2014) is a spy drama you can watch online on iFILM — a British miniseries from Hugo Blick starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. As a child, Nessa Stein watched her father, an arms dealer supplying Israel, gunned down right in front of her.

Grown up, Nessa inherits the family firm and turns it inside out, swapping weapons for data cables strung between Israel and the West Bank. The peace work earns her a seat in the House of Lords, but the deal drags a long trail of old secrets behind it. Kidnappings, wiretaps, double agents — and a baroness who sleeps in a panic room and trusts no one all the way.

Across eight episodes Blick winds the plot slowly and tight, like a proper spy novel; the Middle East conflict isn't backdrop here but the mainspring of the intrigue. Gyllenhaal took the Golden Globe for the role, with Stephen Rea as a burnt-out MI6 handler and Lubna Azabal beside her. Stream every episode of The Honourable Woman online on iFILM.