Children of the Night vs In the Line of Fire

In the Line of Fire has the higher audience score (7/10 against 5.5/10 for Children of the Night). Children of the Night is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 8m. In the Line of Fire is the older of the two (1993 against 2016). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Children of the Night posterChildren of the Night2016 VS In the Line of Fire posterIn the Line of Fire1993
Children of the NightIn the Line of Fire
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 7.0/10
Year20161993
Length1h 30m2h 8m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorAndrea De SicaWolfgang Petersen
Main castMarco Boriero, Fabrizio Rongione, Vincenzo Crea, Ludovico Succio, Yuliia SobolGary Cole, Dylan McDermott, Gregory Alan Williams, Tobin Bell, Clint Eastwood

Synopsis

Children of the Night

Somewhere in the bleak Italian Alps is an isolated boarding school for troubled boys of the ultra privileged. 17-year old Giulio is sent there by his mother and finds himself instantly at odds with both his peers and the staff until the arrival of the eccentric Eduordo. The pair bond over their mutual desire for escape, which they eventually do, and run away to a nightclub in the middle of the woods. There they meet Elena, a young prostitute…

In the Line of Fire

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

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