Mars Express

Mars Express (2023) is an adult French sci-fi noir in hand-drawn animation you can watch online on iFILM. By 2200, Mars is fully colonized and robots handle everything — construction, service, the seedier corners of the capital.

Detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera take what looks like a routine job: track down a hacker who strips robots of their behavioral limits. The trail leads to a vanished student who accidentally wrote code that frees a machine from every restriction. The deeper they dig, the closer they get to brain farms, political rot, and a secret that could rewrite the bond between humans and AI.

Director Jérémie Périn channels Blade Runner but trades the mood-fog for crisp Euro line work and zero sentimentality, with Léa Drucker and Mathieu Amalric voicing the leads. It's the rare animated feature that plays as a hard, grown-up detective story. Stream Mars Express (2023) online on iFILM.