Librarian (Season 1)

Librarian (2023) is a Russian fantasy thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A washed-up actor, Alexey Vyazintsev, travels to a backwater town to sell his murdered father's flat and walks straight into an underground war over books.

The forgotten novels of a Soviet writer named Gromov turn out to work like drugs and weapons. One grants Rage, another Strength, another Memory. Secret factions that call themselves Libraries have hunted these volumes for decades and kill rivals without a second thought. To stay alive, Alexey must pick up a book himself, untangle his family's past, and chase the rarest title of all — the Book of Meaning. Nikita Efremov, Andrey Merzlikin and Evgenia Dmitrieva lead the cast under director Igor Tverdokhlebov.

It's based on Mikhail Elizarov's Russian Booker–winning novel, and it shows: garages, housing blocks and shabby community halls become the stage for something bloody and strange. A good pick if you're tired of glossy fantasy and want something darker and homegrown. Stream Librarian online on iFILM.