Maldoror

Maldoror (Le Dossier Maldoror, 2024) is a French-Belgian crime thriller from Fabrice Du Welz that you can watch online on iFILM. Two young girls vanish, the press churns out theories, and the police machine grinds to a halt.

Paul Chartier is a hot-headed young gendarme dropped into a covert unit code-named Maldoror, set up to shadow a dangerous sex offender already out of prison. When the operation collapses through cowardice and red tape, Paul stops waiting for permission and goes after the trail alone — and the hunt slowly eats him alive. Anthony Bajon plays him raw and wired, with Alexis Manenti and Sergi López close behind.

Du Welz drew on a notorious Belgian case from the nineties, yet he skips the documentary reconstruction for a grim, claustrophobic study of a man rage pushes past the edge. Two and a half hours of mounting dread, built for viewers ready for hard European crime with no easy comfort. Stream Maldoror (2024) online on iFILM.