A Time to Kill vs L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.4/10 for A Time to Kill). L.A. Confidential is the shorter watch at 2h 18m compared with 2h 29m. A Time to Kill is the older of the two (1996 against 1997). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Time to Kill posterA Time to Kill1996 VS L.A. Confidential posterL.A. Confidential1997
A Time to KillL.A. Confidential
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 7.8/10
Year19961997
Length2h 29m2h 18m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorJoel SchumacherCurtis Hanson
Main castKiefer Sutherland, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Chris CooperRon Rifkin, Guy Pearce, Simon Baker, Danny DeVito, Russell Crowe

Synopsis

A Time to Kill

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

L.A. Confidential

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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