Elyas

Elyas (2024) is a French action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A former special-forces soldier takes a quiet bodyguard job protecting a woman and her daughter — and senses almost at once that something is off.

A mission in Afghanistan left Elyas frayed: paranoid, sleepless, never quite certain what is real. The assignment sounds simple — keep watch over Amina and her thirteen-year-old daughter Nour, in from the Middle East for the holidays. The closer he gets, the clearer it becomes that someone else is running this game, and the danger he assumed he was imagining may be entirely real.

Director Florent-Emilio Siri, who made Hostage and The Nest, leans on cramped spaces and slow-building dread rather than big firefights. Roschdy Zem plays a man who can't trust his own eyes, and that doubt is the film's live wire. One for fans of hard-edged European thrillers that prize tension over spectacle. Stream Elyas (2024) online on iFILM.