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After a confrontation with bad cop Krotznig (Roland Düringer) Leopold ‘Lemming’ Wallisch (Fritz Karl) quits his job as police officer and works as a private eye. What begins like the usual – the observation of a suspected unfaithful husband – ends with the observed being murdered in the woods and the observer being suspect [...]

** Alert: Minor Spoilers **
In this remake of 1974 Taking of Pelham One Two Three, reckless gangster Ryder (John Travolta) kidnaps a New York subway train with a gang of faceless goons. Ryder demands 10 Million Dollars within one hour, or he will kill one passenger for each minute over time, and he won’t [...]

In 1982, an alien spaceship has stranded over Johannesburg. The aliens, pejoratively referred to as ‘prawns’, were brought into a slum-like camp called District 9. There are 1.8 million of them now, and the government authorizes private military contractor MNU (Multinational United) to relocate the aliens into District 10, 240 kilometers outside of Johannesburg. [...]