Nobody from Nowhere

Nobody from Nowhere (Un illustre inconnu, 2014) is a French psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Sebastien, a colorless realtor, drifts through an empty, dull life — until he picks up an unsettling hobby.

In his off hours he studies the people around him and rebuilds them piece by piece: the voice, the walk, the small gestures, until he can vanish completely into someone else's identity. At first it reads as a harmless game. Then Sebastien steps into the wrong man's life, and the double existence starts slipping out of his hands. Mathieu Kassovitz, the director of La Haine, works on the other side of the camera here as a quiet man with no qualities whose inner emptiness is both magnetic and disturbing. Marie-Josée Croze and Éric Caravaca round out the cast.

Director Matthieu Delaporte builds the film around an uneasy question: what's left of a person who's too good at being somebody else. A cold, precise drama for anyone who likes slow-burn suspense carried by a strong lead. Stream Nobody from Nowhere online on iFILM.