Black Angels vs The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro has the higher audience score (9/10 against 4.4/10 for Black Angels). Black Angels is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 32m. Black Angels is the older of the two (1970 against 1989). Both are action, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Black Angels posterBlack Angels1970 VS The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro posterThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro1989
Black AngelsThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Audience score★ 4.4/10★ 9.0/10
Year19701989
Length1h 27m1h 32m
GenresAction, DramaAction, Drama
CountryUnited States of AmericaAustralia
DirectorLaurence MerrickRobert L. Collins
Main castDes Roberts, John King III, Linda Jackson, James Whitworth, Clancy SyrkoLee Grant, Robert Mammone, Christina Pickles, E.G. Marshall, Barry Otto

Synopsis

Black Angels

When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

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