24 Hours

24 Hours (2000) is a Russian crime action film you can watch online on iFILM. Hitman Feliks takes a contract from the "killer union" and breaks a direct warning to leave it alone. Aleksandr Atanesyan directs.

The mark — a man the client calls "the oilman" — goes down in broad daylight, almost unnoticed by the crowd around him. But the warning was no bluff: this is one kill Feliks won't be pardoned for. He has exactly one day to reach a far-off warm island where his woman and his pay are waiting. Lyova Shalamov and his brother Garik have the same day to track him down and put him in the ground.

The countdown rides on a strong cast — Maksim Sukhanov, Andrey Panin, Mikhail Kozakov and Tatyana Samoylova. This is a tense, hard-edged picture with a ticking clock doing the heavy lifting, proof that walking away from the "killer union" really is hard. One for fans of bleak turn-of-the-2000s Russian crime. Stream 24 Hours (2000) online on iFILM.