Ruby Red

Ruby Red (Rubinrot, 2013) is a German fantasy film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Felix Fuchssteiner and based on Kerstin Gier's bestselling novel. Maria Ehrich plays sixteen-year-old Gwendolyn Shepherd, a London teenager who discovers on her birthday that she — not her more prepared cousin — carries the rare time-travel gene.

A secret society called the Guardians immediately takes charge of her, pairing her with the cold and dismissive Gideon (Jannis Niewöhner) for time jumps into past centuries. What the Guardians want from them, what the "Secret of the Twelve" actually means, and why someone is hunting time travellers in the past all stay deliberately unresolved — this is the first chapter of a trilogy. The tone stays closer to a period romance than a thriller, which is the right call for the source material. Stream Ruby Red online on iFILM.