Mercato

Mercato (2025) is a French football thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Tristan Séguéla, it stars Jamel Debbouze — better known for comedy — cast here against that image as Driss, a player agent who has run out of clean options.

Driss knows the transfer market from every angle, which means he knows exactly how bad things are. His top player is banned. His debts to people who don't do payment plans have reached the kind of number that gets people hurt. Seven days until the mercato closes. In that window he needs to close an impossible deal and settle accounts with everyone he's managed to owe — before they settle accounts with him.

Séguéla locks the deadline in from the first scene and tightens it steadily — the transfer window isn't backdrop here, it's the vice the film runs on. Debbouze strips the charm down to bare wiring, and the film is better for it. Stream Mercato online on iFILM.