Synopsis
The Virtues (2019) is a Shane Meadows drama you can watch online on iFILM. It opens on the day Joseph's world caves in: his ex takes their young son to Australia, and he's left with nothing to hold onto.
A brutal bender later, Joseph boards a ferry to Ireland, a country he hasn't set foot in for over thirty years. He goes looking for his sister Anna, but really he's circling the buried memories the old places drag back up. Stephen Graham plays a man at breaking point with raw, unguarded force, while Niamh Algar anchors the back half of the story as Anna.
Meadows (This Is England) returns to childhood trauma and working-class Britain, drawing partly on his own past, which is exactly why these four episodes cut so deep. Slow, harrowing, stripped of any easy comfort. A drama for viewers ready to sit with hard things. Stream The Virtues online on iFILM.
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