Movie · 2026 · Thriller, Drama · 1h 47m · R · Spanish
Curator score: 1.0/10 (13.1K ratings)
Overview
Little Lide disappears in the forest while her family packs up their home. As a fire breaks out, her mother must race to reach her before the flames do.
Ratings
Curator score: 1.0/10
IMDb: 5.7/10
Letterboxd: 2.56/5
TMDB: 6.3/10
Director
David Victori
Production
Espotlight
Cast
Belén Cuesta, Enric Auquer, Candela Martínez, Joaquín Furriel, Diana Gómez, Mika Arias, Magdalena Brotto, Carlos Piera, Alberto Berzal, Bernabé Fernández, Víctor Ramos, Milton Roy, César Pérez, Elena Silva, David Oliver, Carlos Valle, Alejandro Carbó, Kimberly Valladares, Laura Benítez
Where to watch
Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A tense, propulsive survival thriller with strong immediate stakes and a built-in emotional hook, but the audience response suggests uneven logic, frustrating character behavior, and a payoff that won’t satisfy everyone. It seems best approached as a pressure-cooker drama about panic, guilt, and family dysfunction rather than a perfectly engineered mystery.
Best for
Viewers who like disaster-adjacent thrillers with constant urgency
Fans of forest-set survival stories and missing-child suspense
People who can tolerate messy characters if the momentum stays high
Audiences looking for a fast, emotionally charged watch
Skip if
You need airtight plotting and realistic procedural behavior
You get impatient with characters making obviously bad decisions
You want a cathartic or especially elegant ending
You prefer subtle drama over heightened crisis storytelling
Overview
Firebreak is built on a brutally simple engine: a child is missing, a fire is moving in, and every minute makes the situation worse. That premise gives the film immediate forward motion, and the strongest reactions suggest it is very good at sustaining dread and curiosity even when the story starts to strain credibility.
Worth noting
The response also points to a movie that can be infuriating in the way many survival thrillers are: family members behave badly, logic bends for suspense, and the emotional temperature often runs hotter than the screenplay’s sense of proportion. If you like being pulled through a crisis story by sheer urgency, that can be a feature rather than a flaw.
Bottom line
What seems to divide viewers most is the ending and the film’s willingness to forgive behavior that many will find unforgivable. So this is less a polished crowd-pleaser than a tense, messy, highly watchable ordeal — effective in the moment, more debatable in the aftermath.
Top Letterboxd reviews
vllska (3★) · 558 likes
santiago better than me cause if i was him i would sue that fuckass family ngl
pris (2.5★) · 271 likes
i swear this annoying ass family had me more heated than the wildfire
Miguelinn (1★) · 157 likes
Que la niña tenga nombre de supermercado es algo que me saca bastante de la película.
ebru ☭ (3.5★) · 134 likes
ben filmi çok sevdim, o merak duygusu sayesinde bir oturuşta bitti. filmde bazı sahneler gereksiz yere uzatılmıştı, olaylar da biraz yavaş ilerliyor aslında ama beni hiç sıkmadı çünkü ne olacağını acayip merak ettim. sonu biraz daha farklı bitebilirdi, hani o küçük kızın kaybolmasının ardında çok daha başka bir olay beklerdim ama yine de bütün bu olumsuzluklara rağmen hiç sıkılmadan izledim. merakı diri tuttuğu için kendini bir şekilde izlettiriyor.
Éter (2★) · 130 likes
No te voy a mentir un poco culo. Un oso ibérico así porque sí tan cerca de la civilización? Y en ningún momento la policía se lo topa? El Luis es un violento y en todo momento me esperaba que el plot twist fuera que él se hubiera llevado a la niña y su mujer se debería divorciar de él 💀 Justicia (y unas pocas neuronas) para Santi el pobre solo estaba haciendo droga ilegal y cosas de loquito espiritual… more No te voy a mentir un poco culo. Un oso ibérico así porque sí tan cerca de la civilización? Y en ningún momento la policía se lo topa? El Luis es un violento y en todo momento me esperaba que el plot twist fuera que él se hubiera llevado a la niña y su mujer se debería divorciar de él 💀 Justicia (y unas pocas neuronas) para Santi el pobre solo estaba haciendo droga ilegal y cosas de loquito espiritual… more