15 Minutes of War vs Outside the Law

15 Minutes of War has the higher audience score (6.8/10 against 6.6/10 for Outside the Law). 15 Minutes of War is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 2h 17m. Outside the Law is the older of the two (2010 against 2019). Both are action, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

15 Minutes of War poster15 Minutes of War2019 VS Outside the Law posterOutside the Law2010
15 Minutes of WarOutside the Law
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 6.6/10
Year20192010
Length1h 38m2h 17m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarAction, Drama, History, War
Country––
DirectorFred GrivoisRachid Bouchareb
Main castVincent Perez, Josiane Balasko, David Murgia, Olga Kurylenko, Michaël AbiteboulSami Bouajila, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Roschdy Zem, Thibault de Montalembert, Samir Guesmi

Synopsis

15 Minutes of War

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on…

Outside the Law

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.

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