The Firm

The Firm (1989) is a British crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Alan Clarke made it for BBC One, and it has lost none of its edge in the decades since. Bex — a property agent by day, gang leader by night — is played by Gary Oldman in one of his most disquieting performances before Dracula and Leon made him a name.

Oldman finds real menace in a man who treats organised hooliganism as neatly as a business plan — respectable on the outside, violent on a schedule. Phil Davis, Leslie Manville and Steve McFadden fill out the crew. Clarke shoots cold and close, no sentimentality, no exit ramps. Seventy minutes, nothing wasted. Watch The Firm (1989) online on iFILM.