Darkroom vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 5.4/10 for Darkroom). Darkroom is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2019). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Darkroom
The Shawshank Redemption| Darkroom | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.4/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Rosa von Praunheim | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Božidar Kocevski, Heiner Bomhard, Katy Karrenbauer, Bardo Böhlefeld, Julia Blankenburg | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Darkroom
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
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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