Beasts of No Nation vs The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.6/10 for Beasts of No Nation). The Imitation Game is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 17m. The Imitation Game is the older of the two (2014 against 2015). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Beasts of No Nation posterBeasts of No Nation2015 VS The Imitation Game posterThe Imitation Game2014
Beasts of No NationThe Imitation Game
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 8.0/10
Year20152014
Length2h 17m1h 53m
GenresDrama, WarDrama, History, Thriller, War
Country–United States of America
DirectorCary Joji FukunagaMorten Tyldum
Main castNana Mensah, Idris Elba, Jude Akuwudike, Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Nii Adom QuayeBenedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard

Synopsis

Beasts of No Nation

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

The Imitation Game

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

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