Set in Madrid in 2013, during the height of Spain’s financial crisis, Collision Course is a Spanish crime thriller directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. The film premiered on Netflix on October 30, 2026. It brings together a tense ensemble led by Laia Costa, Karra Elejalde, Luis Zahera, Tamar Novas, Álvaro Cervantes and Lluís Homar.Show More
The story begins with a bank robbery, but the film is interested in much more than the mechanics of a heist: it explores the private histories, uneasy loyalties and hidden motives that collide when a plan starts to unravel.
The robbery involves a group of police officers: retired sergeant Pedro, his son Raúl, lieutenant Carla Mencía and forensic examiner Tomás. Banker Ernesto helps them with the operation. Their target is a safe-deposit box containing diamonds, yet the people involved are not united by a simple shared purpose. Personal grievances, family tensions, secrets and competing ideas of justice shape the decisions they make. What looks like a carefully arranged crime quickly becomes a dangerous test of trust.
A getaway-car crash becomes the story’s turning point. Rather than moving forward in a single straight line, the film revisits the crash through alternate versions of events, shifting attention between the people caught in the robbery. Each variation changes who survives and reveals another layer of the characters’ relationships and intentions. The structure makes the audience reconsider what they have seen, while the pressure of the situation exposes how differently each person responds to fear, betrayal and uncertainty.
Carla’s complicated personal life, Pedro’s history with the bank, Raúl’s connection to his father and Tomás’s place within the group all feed into the unfolding conflict. Ernesto and other figures connected to the robbery add further deception to an already unstable situation. The film’s central question is not simply whether the group can escape, but whether any of them can control the consequences of choices made long before the crash.
With its nonlinear storytelling, shifting perspectives and ensemble of morally complicated characters, Collision Course turns a Madrid bank heist into a suspenseful study of loyalty, resentment, survival and chance. This quiz uses the film’s central personalities and dilemmas as inspiration. Choose the response that feels most like your instinct; your result will show which character’s approach to pressure and difficult decisions most closely resembles yours.
