6ixtynin9

6ixtynin9 (1999) is a Thai crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Pen-ek Ratanaruang shot this during the Asian financial crisis — the feeling of a country with nothing left to lose runs through every scene. Tam, played by Lalita Panyopas, has just been laid off. She comes home broke. Then she finds a box of cash outside her front door.

The whole setup turns on a loose nail: the number 6 on her apartment door swings upside down and reads 9. Mob couriers knock on the wrong door. Tam keeps the money. The men who own it keep arriving — and keep ending up dead, every time through a chain of mishaps too absurd to fully explain in a plot summary.

Ratanaruang made a near-silent film that plays like a deadpan nightmare: a quiet woman, a growing body count, and a city that couldn't care less. Stream 6ixtynin9 (1999) online on iFILM.