The Day of the Jackal (Season 1)

The Day of the Jackal (2024) is a spy thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A contract killer known only as the Jackal takes the jobs no one else will touch, changing faces as easily as he changes passports. One shot, and the hunt begins.

After another flawless hit, the Jackal meets his match in Bianca, a dogged British intelligence officer played by Lashana Lynch. Eddie Redmayne's assassin is a study in patience and disguise, able to stalk a target for weeks and then vanish without a trace. The chase rolls across Europe, leaving bodies and burned alliances behind. The cast also features Ursula Corbero, Charles Dance and Khalid Abdalla.

The series reworks Frederick Forsyth's novel and the 1973 film, dropping the story into an age of biometrics, drones and real-time surveillance. Brian Kirk and Anthony Philipson direct. The longer the pursuit drags on, the harder it is to tell which of the two is really cornered. Stream every episode of The Day of the Jackal online on iFILM.