City of Life and Death vs Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7.4/10 for City of Life and Death). Hotel Rwanda is the shorter watch at 2h 1m compared with 2h 12m. Hotel Rwanda is the older of the two (2004 against 2009). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of Life and Death
Hotel Rwanda| City of Life and Death | Hotel Rwanda | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2004 |
| Length | 2h 12m | 2h 1m |
| Genres | Drama, History, War | Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Lu Chuan | Terry George |
| Main cast | Qin Lan, Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Ryu Kohata, Jiang Yiyan | Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Cara Seymour, Nick Nolte, David O'Hara |
Synopsis
City of Life and Death
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
Hotel Rwanda
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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