Firewall (2008)

Director
Niall MacCormick

Main cast
Kenneth Branagh; Tom Hiddleston

Genres
Thriller, Crime

Description
In the town of Ystad, police inspector Wallander has two deaths to investigate that seem entirely unconnected: a taxi driver who has been brutally beaten by two teenage girls and later dies, and a computer consultant who has dropped dead in front of a cash machine. But soon enough mysterious and grisly events begin taking place. Events linked to something much more sinister that might be threatening the entire global finance market.


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