The Guard

The Guard (2011) is a sharp Irish crime comedy from writer-director John Michael McDonagh — watch it online on iFILM. Brendan Gleeson plays Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a deliberately unhelpful, hard-drinking cop from the west of Ireland whose idea of police work runs on whiskey and personal convenience.

When FBI agent Wendell Everett, played by Don Cheadle, arrives to break up an international drug-smuggling operation, he's handed Boyle as a local partner. The mismatch is the whole film: corporate American precision versus Boyle's gleeful contempt for procedure. What makes it work is that neither man is actually a fool — the comedy is built on competence hidden under attitude. Stream The Guard (2011) online on iFILM for 96 minutes of genuinely clever buddy comedy that earns every laugh.