Bordertown vs The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl Who Played with Fire has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.3/10 for Bordertown). Bordertown is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 2h 9m. Bordertown is the older of the two (2007 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bordertown posterBordertown2007 VS The Girl Who Played with Fire posterThe Girl Who Played with Fire2009
BordertownThe Girl Who Played with Fire
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 7.0/10
Year20072009
Length1h 52m2h 9m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of AmericaDenmark
DirectorGregory NavaDaniel Alfredson
Main castJennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sônia Braga, Kate del Castillo, Julio Cesar CedilloAnnika Hallin, Reuben Sallmander, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Noomi Rapace

Synopsis

Bordertown

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan…

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

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