Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here (1987), directed by David Leland, is a British coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Sixteen-year-old Lynda lives in a buttoned-up English seaside town in the years after the war — raised by her widowed father, swearing from childhood, refusing to fit anywhere she is put.

At sixteen she pushes further: exhibitionism, sexual encounters on her own terms, a flat refusal to perform respectability. Emily Lloyd plays her without asking for the audience's approval, and that unsentimental choice is what gives the film its teeth. Watch Wish You Were Here (1987) online on iFILM.