Alone in Berlin vs Joint Security Area
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.7/10 for Alone in Berlin). Alone in Berlin is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 1h 48m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2016). Both are drama, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Alone in Berlin
Joint Security Area| Alone in Berlin | Joint Security Area | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller, War | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War |
| Country | – | South Korea |
| Director | Vincent Perez | Park Chan-wook |
| Main cast | Louis Hofmann, Brendan Gleeson, Lars Rudolph, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon |
Synopsis
Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to…
Joint Security Area
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
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