Captain Phillips vs Shakthi Thirumagan
Captain Phillips has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 5.4/10 for Shakthi Thirumagan). Captain Phillips is the shorter watch at 2h 14m compared with 2h 37m. Captain Phillips is the older of the two (2013 against 2025). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Captain Phillips
Shakthi Thirumagan| Captain Phillips | Shakthi Thirumagan | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 2013 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 14m | 2h 37m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Thriller | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | India |
| Director | Paul Greengrass | Arun Prabu Purushothaman |
| Main cast | Tom Hanks, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus | Kiran Kumar, Vijay Antony, Vagai Chandrasekar, Sunil Kirpalani, Trupti Ravindra |
Synopsis
Captain Phillips
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Shakthi Thirumagan
A tribal woman is brutally assaulted and killed. Her newborn is mercilessly abandoned in a dump yard, left to die. But fate intervenes — an old man discovers the infant and decides to raise him as his own. The child, named Kittu,After the old man’s death, Kittu is left to fend for himself,determined to confront his mother’s killer.
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