Black Rain vs Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.6/10 for Black Rain). Black Rain is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 23m. Black Rain is the older of the two (1989 against 2006). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Black Rain posterBlack Rain1989 VS Blood Diamond posterBlood Diamond2006
Black RainBlood Diamond
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 7.6/10
Year19892006
Length2h 5m2h 23m
GenresAction, Drama, ThrillerAction, Drama, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRidley ScottEdward Zwick
Main castStephen Root, Michael Douglas, Andy García, Luis Guzmán, Richard RiehleJennifer Connelly, David Harewood, Michael Sheen, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis

Black Rain

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

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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