Columbus Circle

Columbus Circle (2012) is an American psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director George Gallo centers the story on Abigail, an heiress who sealed herself inside her Manhattan apartment nearly two decades ago — no visitors, no outings, just handwritten notes slipped to the doorman and quiet check-ins from the family lawyer, Dr. Fontaine. Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Beau Bridges and Amy Smart round out the cast.

The controlled silence shatters when a murder happens next door. A detective starts knocking on neighbors' doors, a new couple moves into the scene of the crime, and Abigail — who can't risk being seen without revealing why she vanished from the world in the first place — has to decide how much of herself to give up to survive the investigation.

The film works best as a locked-room puzzle: the interest is less in whodunit and more in the slowly surfacing answer to why Abigail is really hiding. Claustrophobic in the best way. Watch Columbus Circle (2012) online on iFILM.