Downfall (Season 1)

Downfall (Prisão Domiciliária, 2021) is a Portuguese political thriller you can watch online on iFILM. For years, Álvaro Vieira Branco was the kind of public official who made careers and ended them — a former minister with reach into every corner of government. An anonymous tip ends all that in one night. Criminal charges, investigators, an ankle bracelet.

Confined to his upscale villa, Branco faces the question investigator Gonçalo Schmidt has been waiting years to ask: how did a government salary fund a life this comfortable — the wife, the mother, the children, the mistress? Every move is logged. Every phone call is a risk. He still has his lawyer David Rebelo Morais and his loyal foreman Zé Mário, but the room he's allowed to operate in is, literally, his living room.

Led by Marco Delgado, the series is less about guilt and more about how a man who built everything on access tries to hold on when the access is gone. Stream Downfall (2021) online on iFILM.