French rescue workers inspect the remains of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the site of the crash, near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps March 29, 2015.
IN PHOTO: French rescue workers inspect the remains of the Germanwings Airbus A320 at the site of the crash, near Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps March 29, 2015. The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a passenger plane in the French Alps told his girlfriend he was in psychiatric treatment, and that he was planning a spectacular gesture that everyone would remember, the German daily Bild reported on Saturday. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Moviegoers have noticed the eerie similarity between the tragic Germanwings Flight 9525 and the Argentinian dark comedy film “Wild Tales,” which features a pilot deliberately crashing an entire aeroplane down. Some have questioned if Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had watched the film before flying the doomed aircraft.

Flight 9525 was en route from Barcelona El Prat Airport to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany on March 24 when it crashed in the French Alps. All 150 crew and passengers were killed. Initial investigations reveal that Lubitz deliberately caused the crash after locking out the captain out of the cockpit. It’s still a theory at this time, though all evidence gathered so far point to the same.

The speculated events leading to the flight’s crash are apparently similar to a short film included in the Academy Award-nominated “Wild Tales.” In the film’s first story titled “Pasternak,” a plane’s passengers have discovered they all know a man named Pasternak. All of them have slighted Pasternak in some ways. It turns out Pasternak is behind the booking of all the passengers’ flight, and he has a sinister plan to get rid of all the people who have wronged him. The story ends with Pasternak locking himself inside the cockpit and deliberately crashing the plane into his parents’ house.

The film was released at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2014 and was subsequently shown in Argentinian cinemas in August. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for this year’s Academy Awards but lost to Poland’s “Ida.”

It was recently released in the UK on Friday, and some moviegoers have noted the similarity of the film’s first story with the Germanwings flight tragedy. French and German prosecutors believe Lubitz intentionally crashed the plane, just as Pasternak has done in the film.

On-demand film streaming site Curzon Home Cinema has published a disclaimer on its website to warn viewers that the Argentinian film features scenes that they might find upsetting. “Following the Germanwings flight incident on Tuesday 24th March, please be aware that WILD TALES features a sequence that some customers might find disturbing,” the disclaimer reads.

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