Burning Stars vs Man in the Middle

Burning Stars has the higher audience score (9.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Man in the Middle). Man in the Middle is the older of the two (1964 against 2024). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Burning Stars posterBurning Stars2024 VS Man in the Middle posterMan in the Middle1964
Burning StarsMan in the Middle
Audience score★ 9.8/10★ 6.5/10
Year20241964
Length–1h 33m
GenresDrama, WarDrama, War
CountryCNUnited Kingdom
DirectorXu ZhanxiongGuy Hamilton
Main castJerry Lee, Gao Ge, Lu Qi, Dong Yong, Yu AileiSam Wanamaker, Paul Maxwell, Robert Mitchum, Keenan Wynn, France Nuyen

Synopsis

Burning Stars

In 1920s Shanghai, a group of brave young individuals band together to carry out a dangerous mission, and amid political turmoil, they grow through sacrifice and resilience.

Man in the Middle

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a…

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