A Common Man

"A Common Man" (2013) is a Sri Lankan-American thriller you can watch online on iFILM, with Ben Kingsley at its center. Chandran Rutnam directed the film on location in Colombo.

A man — no name, no face — has planted bombs across the Sri Lankan capital and delivered one demand: release the prisoners or the city goes. Authorities have no profile, no photograph, just a voice on the phone. Ben Cross plays the detective trying to buy time while Kingsley's character holds all the cards.

Kingsley claimed his Oscar for "Gandhi"; here he takes the opposite direction — a quiet, faceless threat whose calm is more unsettling than rage. The tagline "No Justice. No Peace." earns its weight. Stream "A Common Man" (2013) on iFILM.