Beirut vs Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.3/10 for Beirut). Beirut is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 23m. Blood Diamond is the older of the two (2006 against 2018). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Beirut posterBeirut2018 VS Blood Diamond posterBlood Diamond2006
BeirutBlood Diamond
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 7.6/10
Year20182006
Length1h 49m2h 23m
GenresAction, Drama, ThrillerAction, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorBrad AndersonEdward Zwick
Main castDean Norris, Jon Hamm, Shea Whigham, Rosamund Pike, Mark PellegrinoJennifer Connelly, David Harewood, Michael Sheen, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis

Beirut

In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.

Blood Diamond

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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