Desierto vs Hair of the Bear

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for Desierto). Desierto is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 32m. Desierto is the older of the two (2015 against 2026). Both are drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Desierto posterDesierto2015 VS Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026
DesiertoHair of the Bear
Audience score★ 6.2/10★ 10.0/10
Year20152026
Length1h 28m1h 32m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama, Thriller
Country–Canada
DirectorJonás CuarónAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellan
Main castJeffrey Dean Morgan, Gael García Bernal, Marco Pérez, Lew Temple, Diego CatañoMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence

Synopsis

Desierto

A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the…

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

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