The Truthers – Movie Review | Netflix (3/5)

THE TRUTHERS on Netflix is an eerily scary conspiracy thriller from Spain (org. title: Los creyentes). What makes it scary is the realism and familiar conspiracies. You’ll recognize way too much from both cult documentaries and many Facebook or Twitter comments. Read our full The Truthers movie review here!

THE TRUTHERS is a Netflix thriller with a conspiracy-driven plot that feels all too familiar. In the case of this conspiracy thriller, it’s especially directed at Big Pharma. However, it’s also about government involvement and how everyone else in power is somehow involved. The media included, of course.

If you enjoy Spanish genre productions, then you’ll appreciate the character-driven storyline and how no character is entirely good or bad. For me, this isn’t one of the better Spanish thrillers, which is mostly due to the characters not noticing things that you, as a viewer, will. That’s not how a thriller should work. Not in my book.

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When bad online forums happen to good people

In The Truthers, we meet Ruth (Stéphanie Magnin) just as she gets news that her mother has died. Ruth is a 30-year-old woman who has long been estranged from her family. When she returns home, she is constantly faced with people telling her that her parents have changed a lot over the years.

Apparently, her mom was drinking quite heavily, and her death was the result of this. She had a fall in the shower, hit her head, and died. All of this, supposedly, happened due to her being drunk. Ruth isn’t buying this story. Mostly because her mom wasn’t a heavy drinker. Then again, it’s been years since she was last home.

Her father, Martín (José Coronado), is also very different from the dad she remembers. He is a retired law enforcement officer who has fallen down a deep rabbit hole of conspiracies. He is a grumpy, aggressive man who swears like a sailor and is truly obsessed with a particularly sinister conspiracy theory.

Ruth and her father are not getting along very well, as they seem to be virtual strangers now. Also, his behavior is so strange and erratic that Ruth finds herself actually suspecting her father of being responsible for the death of her mother.

Could there be any truth to this gut feeling, or does Ruth have the same conspiracy-fanatical streak as her dad?

A solid conspiracy thriller

What worked best for me was the actual conspiracy element of The Truthers. As someone who loves watching true crime documentaries and finds those featuring some obscure (or well-known) cult particularly intriguing, this is right up my alley.

Now, I’m not saying that things don’t happen that are kept hidden from the wider public. I mean, we know that sometimes, things are not divulged to the public until much later. This thriller, however, is more along the lines of Pizzagate and Space Lasers.

It’s full-on tinfoil hats, but from people you think shouldn’t fall for it.

To me, The Truthers is strangely scary because I feel like you can easily come across the same kind of people daily online. People who ask “Was he/she vaccinated?” as the first comment on the news about someone dying. Never mind that the person died in a car crash; they’ll find some way to connect their untimely death to a vaccine.

As such, this conspiracy thriller works extremely well. The actual storyline could do with a bit of tightening, but it is not bad. The final scene is the perfect ending for a conspiracy-driven thriller.

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The Truthers comes from director Roger Gual, who previously worked on the two Netflix series Gangs of Galicia and The Mess You Leave Behind. This 2026 conspiracy thriller features a screenplay by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona, who co-created the Netflix hit series Elite.

Screenwriters Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona also serve as executive producers alongside Diego Betancor, while Juana Jiménez handled cinematography. It was shot on location in Asturias, Madrid, and Berlin, so you’ll get to see quite a bit of the diversity of Europe in this thriller.

Also in the cast, alongside Stéphanie Magnin (Advantages of Travelling by Train) and Jose Coronado (The Snow Girl, The Innocent), are Fanny Gautier (Olympo, The Ministry of Time) as Lucía and Alberto Olmo (Bad Influence, Love in Difficult Times) as Arón.

As much as I did enjoy watching this, it’s just not one of those Spanish thrillers that stay with me. I loved the conspiracy-driven plot, but it needed a bit more edge and a tighter pace to really get under my skin.

The Truthers is out on Netflix globally from July 24, 2026.

Details

Director: Roger Gual
Writers: Carlos Montero, Darío Madrona
Cast: Jose Coronado, Stephanie Magnin, Fanny Gautier, Alberto Olmo