October Gale

October Gale (2014) is a Canadian thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ruba Nadda, with Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, and Tim Roth.

Helen, a doctor still raw from her husband's death, retreats alone to her remote island cottage. A wounded stranger washes ashore in the night — gunshot wound, no explanation. She takes him in. By morning, whoever shot him has arrived on the island. The autumn storm has already cut off the mainland. No one is coming.

Clarkson carries the film. Her Helen is controlled and grief-cracked at the same time, which is harder to play than it sounds. Roth's quiet, methodical menace is what lifts this above a standard survival picture. Stream October Gale (2014) online on iFILM.