Paris Under Watch

"Paris Under Watch" (Aux yeux de tous, 2012) is a French thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Cédric Jimenez and Arnaud Duprey, the film puts an anonymous hacker at the center of the city — he has cracked every surveillance camera in Paris and watches everything: petty thefts, private moments, the texture of daily life no one intends to share. Starring Mélanie Doutey and Olivier Barthélémy.

A bomb goes off at Gare d'Austerlitz. While police chase leads in the wrong direction, the hacker spots the culprits on his stolen feeds — a young couple who planted it. The whole city is mapped in front of him. That is both the advantage and the problem.

The film builds its dread not through action but through the creeping idea of total visibility. Stream "Paris Under Watch" (2012) on iFILM.