History Film / TheInvisibleGuest

** BitchInSheepsClothing: Adrian's story and overall demeanor paints himself as a well-meaning and empathetic family man who merely made some mistakes, and who was wrongly framed for the murder of his lover. [[spoiler: By the end, it's revealed he's a cold and self-serving bastard who not only committed murder, but also went through great lengths to cover it up and lied about it to make himself seem like an innocent victim.]]

* LadyMacbeth: Adrian wanted to just call an ambulance and face the consequences of the cheating and the accident, but Laura pushes him to do more and more questionable things in an attempt to get scot free of it all. [[spoiler:Or so he claims, it was actually the other way around.]]

* BatmanGambit: A plan relies on acting confident and natural enough that the mark will never think of [[spoiler:checking the files you brought or the note you're writing]]

* {{Blackmail}}: We are to assume that the bypassing driver blackmailed Adrian for €100,000.

* YourCheatingHeart: Adrian and Laura are having an affair while being in relationships.

* GambitRoulette: Everything would've been completely wrecked if [[spoiler:the real Virginia had arrived at any point of the conversation]]

* LatexPerfection: Averted, the impersonation uses a few silicone prosthetics and is far from perfect, but just convincing enough to fool someon who has never actually met the real person.

* LadyMacbeth: Adrian wanted to just call an ambulance and face the consequences of the cheating and the accident, but Laura pushes him to do more and more questionable things in an attempt to get scott free of it all. [[Or so he claims, it was actually the other way around.]]

** This causes the car accident when Adrian looked at Laura instead of focusing on the road ahead.

** When Adrian mentions a particularily dark part of the story, Virginia seemes to geet flustered and starts loudly throwing all sorts of insults at him, when he responds she claims it was an example of what the prosecution would do to get him to display that same behavior in front of the judge. [[spoiler:This makes much more sense when you know she's actually Elvira having just found out that her son's death wasn't just covered up, but that he was actually murdered]].
* CrimeAfterCrime: It starts with a completely accidental death, to cover that they get rid of the body and the car, to cover ''that'' they get rid of their own car and lie to the police saying it was stolen, then they have to falsify an aliby, then they have to frame the deceased for embezzelment, after the reveal it's added that [[spoiler:Adrian actually murdered Daniel and also Laura, both in an attempt to mantain the coverup.]]

* Gambit Roulette: Everything would've been completely wrecked if [[spoler:the real Virginia had arrived at any point of the conversation]]

* LadyMacbeth: Adrian wanted to just call an ambulance and face the consecuences of the cheating and teh accident, blut Laura pushes him to do more and more questionable things in an attempt to get scott free of it all. [[Or so he calims, it was actually the other way around.]]

* SureLetsGoWithThat: After Adrian confesses one of the darkest things he did to mantain the coverup, [[spoiler:Virginia starts calling him all sorts of names, Adrian suggests she's just testing him and she claims that was the case. However, since she's actually Elvira, it's more likely it was sincere and she went with Adrian's justification to mantain the charade.]]

** When Adrian mentions a particularily dark part of the story, Virginia seemes to geet flustered and starts loudly throwing all sorts of insults at him, when he responds she claims it was an example of what the prosecution would do to get him to display that same behavios in front of the judge. [[spoiler:This makes much more sense when you know she's actually Elvira having just found out that her son's death wasn't just covered up, but that he was actually murdered]].
* CrimeAfterCrime: It starts with a completely accidental death, to cover that they get rid of the body and the car, to cover ''that'' they get rid of their own car and lie to the police saying it was stolen, then they have to dalsify an aliby, then they have to frame the deceased for embezzelmen, after the reveal it's added that [[spoiler:Adrian actually murdered Daniel and also Laura, both in an attempt to mantain the coverup.]]

* LatexPerfection: Averted, the impersonation uses a few silicon prosthetics and is far from perfect, but just convincing enough to fool someon who has never actually met the real person.

* CaughtOnTape: [[spoiler:A [[HiddenWire bugged pen]] is used to record Adrian's confession]].

* TheReveal:

* TheAtoner: Laura supposedly turns into one when she [[spoiler:decides to confess everything to Daniel's parents and make Adrian pay them €100 as a token of redemption. It [[RedemptionEqualsDeath doesn't end well for her]]]].

* {{Blackmail}}: We are to assume that the bypassing driver blackmailed Adrian for €100.

''The Invisible Guest'' (Spanish: ''Contratiempo'') is a 2016 [[SpanishFilms Spanish]] language [[PsychologicalThriller suspense]] film and second feature film by director Oriol Paulo, following ''Film/TheBody2012''.

Adrian Doria, a successful businessman, has been charged with murder. To defend his innocence, he has hired Virginia Goodman, the country's best witness trainer and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.

* TheAtoner: Laura supposedly turns into one when she [[spoiler:decides to confess everything to Daniel's parents and make Adrian pay them 100.000 EUR as a token of redemption. It [[RedemptionEqualsDeath doesn't end well for her]]]].

* {{Blackmail}}: We are to assume that the bypassing driver blackmailed Adrian for 100.000 EUR.

* IronicName: [[spoiler:Virginia '''Goodman'''. For Adrian anyway.]]

* MistakenForSpecialGuest: [[spoiler:Daniel Garrido's mother uses the fact that Adrian doesn't know what Virginia Goodman looks like to her advantage and assumes her identity to get under Adrian's skin.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: The murder victim Laura is reconstructed via Adrian's flashbacks, although [[spoiler: those flashbacks [[UnreliableNarrator cannot be trusted]]]].
* PunkInTheTrunk: The body of the dead driver is stuffed into the trunk of his own car which Adrian then dumps into the reservoir.

** [[spoiler: Adrian killed Laura himself in that hotel room]].
** [[spoiler: Daniel was still alive and drowned in his car]].
** [[spoiler: Virginia Goodman is actually Elvira Garrido]].

* TrappedInASinkingCar: [[spoiler: We learn that Daniel was still alive when Adrian shoved the sedan into the lake which is followed by some disturbing images of him drowning in the trunk.]]

''The Invisible Guest'' (Spanish: ''Contratiempo'') is a 2016 Spanish language suspense film and second feature film by director Oriol Paulo, following ''Film/TheBody2012''.