Ida Red

Ida Red (2021) is a hard-edged crime thriller from John Swab that you can watch online on iFILM. Ida Red is dying behind bars, halfway through a twenty-year stretch for armed robbery. She wants to walk out free just once before the end, so she leans on her son Wyatt for one final score.

Wyatt, played by Josh Hartnett, pulls jobs alongside his uncle while an FBI agent closes in on the whole family. Melissa Leo plays Ida from her prison cell with a flat, calculating chill — a mother willing to gamble every person she loves. Frank Grillo brings his usual menace to this dusty corner of Oklahoma, where loyalty and greed bleed into the same thing.

Swab builds a grim heartland noir about a clan that treats crime as the family trade, handed down like a name. No glamour, just sweat, debt and a payoff that lands like a punch. Best suited for anyone who likes their gangster stories bleak and without easy redemption. Stream Ida Red (2021) online on iFILM.