Black Butterflies (Season 1)

Black Butterflies (Les Papillons noirs, 2022) is a French crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A novelist stuck on his second book takes a job ghost-writing someone else's memoir.

The client is Albert Desiderio, a quiet retiree. But the love story Albert recounts from the 1970s isn't sentimental at all — it's a confession. He and his lover Solange once killed together, again and again. The deeper the writer listens, the more the old man's past bleeds into his own present, until backing out stops being an option.

Director Olivier Abbou braids two timelines together — the bloody seventies and an uneasy now — and refuses to let your sympathy cancel out your horror. Nicolas Duvauchelle and Niels Arestrup lead, the latter one of French cinema's most formidable character actors. A cold, mean piece of work for anyone who loves a thriller where the narrator can't be trusted. Stream Black Butterflies online on iFILM.