Black Rain vs Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.6/10 for Black Rain). Sin Nombre is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 5m. Black Rain is the older of the two (1989 against 2009). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Black Rain posterBlack Rain1989 VS Sin Nombre posterSin Nombre2009
Black RainSin Nombre
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 7.6/10
Year19892009
Length2h 5m1h 36m
GenresAction, Drama, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRidley ScottCary Joji Fukunaga
Main castStephen Root, Michael Douglas, Andy García, Luis Guzmán, Richard RiehleGerardo Taracena, Paulina Gaitán, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Noé Hernández, Harold Torres

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.

Sin Nombre

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.

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