Damsel

Damsel (2024) is a Netflix fantasy action film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo takes the classic "princess saved by a prince" setup and puts it through a shredder. Millie Bobby Brown plays Elodie, Robin Wright and Angela Bassett co-star.

Elodie agrees to marry into a royal family to rescue her people from poverty. The ceremony goes ahead. Then she's thrown into a cave — not as a bride, but as a meal for a fire-breathing dragon. Nobody gave her a sword. Nobody told her the truth. What follows is a survival story built around claustrophobic cave sequences and a heroine who has to figure it out alone. The tagline says it plainly: "This is not a fairytale."

Written by Dan Mazur, the film landed on Netflix in March 2024 and immediately climbed the global charts. Fresnadillo leans into darkness over spectacle, making it closer to a horror-tinged thriller than a standard fairy-tale adventure. Stream Damsel (2024) online on iFILM.