Breakdown vs The Girl on the Train

Breakdown has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 6.4/10 for The Girl on the Train). Breakdown is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 1h 52m. Breakdown is the older of the two (1997 against 2016). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Breakdown posterBreakdown1997 VS The Girl on the Train posterThe Girl on the Train2016
BreakdownThe Girl on the Train
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 6.4/10
Year19972016
Length1h 33m1h 52m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorJonathan MostowTate Taylor
Main castKurt Russell, Jack Noseworthy, Jack McGee, Rex Linn, M.C. GaineyEmily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Darren Goldstein, Lisa Kudrow, Justin Theroux

Synopsis

Breakdown

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff…

The Girl on the Train

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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