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Retribution

2015 · 101 min · Director: Dani de la Torre ★ IMDb 6.6 · 11,677 ratings

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2015. A Coruña, Galicia (northwest to Spain). Carlos, a bank executive happily married with Marta and father of two children, older Sara and younger Marcos, starts the day as any other ready to work in the bank after to take the children to the school. But when the three up in the car, a cell phone left in the car rings. Receiving the call, an unknown voice tells Carlos that there is a bomb under the car and demands him a great amount of money under the menace to explode it if any of the three down the car, marking the end of the workday as time to receive the money. Hiding the danger to the children, Carlos starts a race across the city calling Víctor, his friend and job partner, to get the money. When Carlos meets in the city by chance with Victor's wife Julia while he is in negotiations with the own Víctor, Carlos learns that "The Unknown" too is blackmailing Víctor, who rejects to pay the money get after an illegal bank operations. Trying to save her, Carlos and the children watch as Julia's car explodes killing her, forcing Carlos to runaway quickly. With his car identified as possible suspect of the explosion, chief of police Espinosa starts an investigation while Marta tries to discover where is Carlos and why the children aren't in the school. At the same time Alejandro, Carlos and Victor's boss from the Madrid's central office, calls Carlos to force him to keep silence about the illegal operations, more worried by a possible leak to the public eye instead Carlos' life. Prosecuted by the police, Carlos finally is trapped in a public park, being surrounded by the police and Espinosa, who taking wrongly Carlos as a criminal who is menacing his children with a bomb calls Belén, chief of explosives squad, to try dismantle the bomb. Revealing Sara and Marcos the danger they face, Carlos will have not only to find the way to convince Espinosa that he is not the enemy, but to find the way to deceive The Unknown to reveal his true identity and stop him before he does explode the car.

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Retribution (2015) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Tension 40%, Anxiety 25%, Fear 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Tension, Anxiety, Fear. Genres: Drama, Crime, Action. AI estimate.

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  • Fear
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Dominant emotion: Relief

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%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionFearEmpathy
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension41 %39 %19 %18 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Tension62 %61 %44 %31 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Tension77 %77 %62 %43 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Tension84 %83 %71 %54 %
22.5 %≈ 23′Tension86 %84 %73 %64 %
27.5 %≈ 28′Tension80 %78 %61 %64 %
32.5 %≈ 33′Tension81 %79 %62 %69 %
37.5 %≈ 38′Tension89 %88 %77 %80 %
42.5 %≈ 43′Tension86 %85 %74 %72 %
47.5 %≈ 48′Tension76 %75 %57 %53 %
52.5 %≈ 53′Tension77 %76 %57 %55 %
57.5 %≈ 58′Tension84 %83 %67 %64 %
62.5 %≈ 63′Tension86 %85 %69 %69 %
67.5 %≈ 68′Empathy87 %84 %68 %73 %
72.5 %≈ 73′Tension89 %87 %70 %69 %
77.5 %≈ 78′Tension93 %91 %78 %74 %
82.5 %≈ 83′Tension96 %94 %85 %80 %
87.5 %≈ 88′Tension95 %90 %83 %79 %
92.5 %≈ 93′Relief92 %83 %75 %78 %
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Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

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Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Luis Tosar

Carlos

Pd
Paula del Río

Sara

EM
Elvira Mínguez

MS
Marco Sanz

Marcos

EM
Elvira Mínguez

Belén

FC
Fernando Cayo

Espinosa

GT
Goya Toledo

Marta

AM
Antonio Mourelos

Ángel

Rd
Ricardo de Barreiro

Víctor

MM
María Mera

Julia

CB
Camila Bossa

Medic

Luis Zahera

Driver

XB
Xosé Barato

Tedax #1

PA
Pedro Alonso

Contreras (voice)

CV
Carolina Vázquez

Ana

DC
Daniel Currás

Policía 1

AV
Abelo Valis

Hombre Casco Rojo

Details

Directed by
Dani de la Torre
Written by
Alberto Marini
Type
Movies
Released
2015
Runtime
101 min
Country
Spain
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.6 · 11,677 ratings
Feels mostly
Tension
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