Children of the Night vs L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.5/10 for Children of the Night). Children of the Night is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 18m. L.A. Confidential is the older of the two (1997 against 2016). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Children of the Night posterChildren of the Night2016 VS L.A. Confidential posterL.A. Confidential1997
Children of the NightL.A. Confidential
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 7.8/10
Year20161997
Length1h 30m2h 18m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorAndrea De SicaCurtis Hanson
Main castMarco Boriero, Fabrizio Rongione, Vincenzo Crea, Ludovico Succio, Yuliia SobolRon Rifkin, Guy Pearce, Simon Baker, Danny DeVito, Russell Crowe

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…

L.A. Confidential

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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