Crypto Man vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 5.5/10 for Crypto Man). Crypto Man is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2025). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Crypto Man
The Shawshank Redemption| Crypto Man | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.5/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Harry Hyun | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Song Jae-rim, So Hee-jung, An Woo-yeon, Min Sung-wook, Cha Jung-won | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Crypto Man
Ok-ja and her son Do-hyun falsely register in Daechi-dong, Seoul, for better schooling despite her limited finances. Do-hyun, envious of his wealthy schoolmate Sang-su for receiving disability benefits, learns that he isn't actually disabled, exposing flaws in government benefits. At university, he and his new friend Ji-woo manipulate government policies for entrepreneurial subsidies, intentionally failing to exploit government leniency…
The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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