Nostradamus

Nostradamus (1994) is a historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roger Christian and shot across Germany, France, and Romania. Tcheky Karyo plays Michel de Nostredame in his early years — not yet the prophet whose name became shorthand for apocalyptic vision, but a working physician riding into plague-ridden villages in southern France with methods the medical establishment actively condemned.

Recognition finds him slowly, then all at once. The court of Catherine de Medici pulls him into a different kind of danger, where prophecy and politics are hard to separate. F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Julia Ormond, and Amanda Plummer fill out a cast that keeps the film from collapsing into hagiography. The almanacs and coded quatrains Nostradamus left behind are woven through the narrative as letters to his son César — an intimate thread inside an otherwise grand-scale story.

Stream Nostradamus (1994) online on iFILM.