A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints vs The Departed
The Departed has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.5/10 for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 31m. Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Departed| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | The Departed | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.2/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 2h 31m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | Hong Kong |
| Director | Dito Montiel | Martin Scorsese |
| Main cast | Rosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Chance Kelly, Shia LaBeouf, Channing Tatum | Anthony Anderson, James Badge Dale, Vera Farmiga, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio |
Synopsis
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
The Departed
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
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