Born to Be Sold vs Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 3.8/10 for Born to Be Sold). Born to Be Sold is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 42m. Born to Be Sold is the older of the two (1981 against 2009). Both are crime, thriller, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Born to Be Sold posterBorn to Be Sold1981 VS Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 posterRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009
Born to Be SoldRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Audience score★ 3.8/10★ 6.7/10
Year19812009
Length1h 36m1h 42m
GenresCrime, Thriller, TV MovieCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffJulian Jarrold
Main castEd Nelson, Claire Malis, Dean Stockwell, Lynda Carter, Harold GouldMichelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Robert Sheehan, Andrew Garfield

Synopsis

Born to Be Sold

A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them…

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