Sleepless Night

Sleepless Night (Nuit blanche, 2011) is a French thriller by Frédéric Jardin you can watch online on iFILM. Vincent, a Paris cop, lifts a bag of cocaine from a gang during a daylight ambush. The bill comes due fast.

By nightfall the gangsters have grabbed his teenage son and set the swap inside a sprawling nightclub on the edge of the city. Vincent shows up with the drugs, then loses them in the middle of the dance floor. What follows is a chase through kitchens, stairwells and storerooms, with crime boss Marciano's men closing in and two internal-affairs cops shadowing his every move. Tomer Sisley carries nearly every scene, backed by Joey Starr, Julien Boisselier and young Samy Seghir as the hostage.

Jardin builds the whole picture around one rule: one night, one building, no flashbacks, no breathing room. It's a film for people who like tension squeezed out of tight spaces and a ticking clock rather than explosions. Hollywood later remade it, but the French original hits harder and moves faster. Stream Sleepless Night (2011) online on iFILM.