Deception vs The Lightest Darkness

The Lightest Darkness has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6/10 for Deception). The Lightest Darkness is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 47m. Deception is the older of the two (2008 against 2017). Both are mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Deception posterDeception2008 VS The Lightest Darkness posterThe Lightest Darkness2017
DeceptionThe Lightest Darkness
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 8.7/10
Year20082017
Length1h 47m1h 23m
GenresMystery, ThrillerMystery, Thriller
Country–Russia
DirectorMarcel LangeneggerDiana Galimzyanova
Main castEwan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Natasha Henstridge, Karolina MullerKolya Neukoelln, Rashid Aitouganov, Vyacheslav Manucharov, Alexander Rapoport, Ekaterina Dar

Synopsis

Deception

As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

The Lightest Darkness

When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.

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