All Quiet on the Western Front vs City of Life and Death
All Quiet on the Western Front has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7.4/10 for City of Life and Death). City of Life and Death is the shorter watch at 2h 12m compared with 2h 27m. City of Life and Death is the older of the two (2009 against 2022). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
All Quiet on the Western Front
City of Life and Death| All Quiet on the Western Front | City of Life and Death | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2009 |
| Length | 2h 27m | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Drama, History, War | Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Edward Berger | Lu Chuan |
| Main cast | Aaron Hilmer, Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald | Qin Lan, Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Ryu Kohata, Jiang Yiyan |
Synopsis
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
City of Life and Death
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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