Retribution

Retribution (El desconocido, 2015) is Dani de la Torre's Spanish thriller, ready to watch online on iFILM. Banking executive Carlos is driving his two kids to school when a stranger's voice comes down the line: there's a bomb wired under the seats, and it goes off unless he wires over a fortune before the deadline.

For most of its runtime Luis Tosar never leaves the car. The camera is trapped in there with him and his two terrified children while the phone barks orders — where to drive, who to call, how much to move. The longer it runs, the clearer it gets that the caller knows far too much about Carlos, and the debt isn't only financial. Ninety taut minutes in a single confined space, and the pulse never drops. If you go for sealed-box thrillers like Locke or Buried, where one actor and a ticking clock carry everything, this Spanish entry is tightly built. Stream Retribution (2015) online on iFILM.