Night Nurse pairs the hush of an upscale retirement community with the steady menace of a phone that will not stop ringing. Georgia Bernstein's 2026 thriller keeps its scares small and personal: one caregiver, one patient, and a con that seems to know everyone's secrets.
What is Night Nurse about?
The setting is a manicured senior residence where life runs on medication schedules and afternoon activities. Then the calls begin — voices that sound official, feel strangely intimate, and little by little strip residents of their savings and their confidence. A young nurse working the overnight shift, hopeful and a bit naive, grows attached to a patient whose past never quite adds up. The closer she gets to him, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is shielding the community from the fraud or standing right next to its source.
About the cast
Cemre Paksoy leads as the night-shift nurse, opposite Bruce McKenzie as the patient at the story's center. Mimi Rogers, a familiar face from decades of American film and television, anchors the supporting cast, while Eléonore Hendricks, Colleen Rose Trundy, Jessica Krolik, Greta Schultz and Bernard Rice fill out the residence's staff and residents.
Context & significance
Phone-scam thrillers have grown into a small genre of their own as elder fraud became a headline issue across the United States, and Night Nurse belongs to that wave. Director Georgia Bernstein keeps the runtime to a tight 95 minutes and rarely leaves the community's walls, preferring unease to spectacle. The drama-thriller blend stays quiet by design: suspicion spreading between neighbors, a caregiver's divided loyalty, and the particular vulnerability of people raised to answer every call politely.
Watching Night Nurse on Ktime
Night Nurse streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can watch it dubbed or in the original English with Farsi text. Reading this page is free; to press play you only need to log in with a K-Time account. The whole experience, from menus to search, is built in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers abroad.