Director: Tesh Guttikonda, Mitch Oliver
A single afternoon of good luck on the water turns into a slow-burning nightmare for one fisherman in this Canadian crime drama.
What is Low Life about?
Working a modest boat off the coast, a fisherman hauls up something nobody expects to find at the bottom of the ocean: a stash of treasure that has sat lost for generations. Instead of reporting the find, he pockets a portion of it and brings it home, telling himself the secret will stay contained. That decision ripples outward fast, pulling in people who notice the sudden money, others who have their own claim on what was hidden down there, and a past that the treasure's origin drags back to the surface. Lowlifes follows the fallout across a small coastal community where nobody is quite as ordinary as they first appear, and where every character seems to be hiding something almost as heavy as what's buried at sea.
Cast & crew
Amanda Fix leads the ensemble, with Matthew MacCaull, Brenna Llewellyn, Elyse Levesque, Josh Zaharia, Cassandra Sawtell, Richard Harmon and Kevin McNulty rounding out a cast built around a tight, character-driven crime story rather than a single lead performance.
Context & significance
Directed by the team of Tesh Guttikonda and Mitch Oliver, Lowlifes was shot in Canada and leans on its coastal setting as much as its plot, using small-town isolation to sharpen the tension once the fisherman's secret starts drawing outside attention. At a lean 90-minute runtime, the film moves briskly through its crime and mystery beats rather than lingering, and it arrives as a modest 2024 genre entry more interested in mounting dread than in spectacle.
Where & how to watch
Lowlifes is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles and Persian dubbing, both included for this title. Watching only requires signing in with a free K-Time account, while this page itself can be read without logging in. K-Time's catalog and interface are built around Farsi speakers, so subtitled and dubbed crime titles like this one sit alongside a wider slate curated for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.