A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints vs The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs has the higher audience score (8.3/10 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 1h 59m. The Silence of the Lambs is the older of the two (1991 against 2006). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints posterA Guide to Recognizing Your Saints2006 VS The Silence of the Lambs posterThe Silence of the Lambs1991
A Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsThe Silence of the Lambs
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.3/10
Year20061991
Length1h 44m1h 59m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorDito MontielJonathan Demme
Main castRosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Chance Kelly, Shia LaBeouf, Channing TatumAnthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Brooke Smith, Tracey Walter, Anthony Heald

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 Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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