Carandiru vs Hair of the Bear
Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Carandiru). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 25m. Carandiru is the older of the two (2003 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Carandiru | Hair of the Bear | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2026 |
| Length | 2h 25m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Héctor Babenco | Alexandre Trudeau, James McLellan |
| Main cast | Caio Blat, Wagner Moura, Lázaro Ramos, Rodrigo Santoro, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos | Malia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence |
Synopsis
Carandiru
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Hair of the Bear
Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.
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