Dheepan vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.9/10 for Dheepan). Dheepan is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2015). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dheepan
The Shawshank Redemption| Dheepan | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.9/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | France | – |
| Director | Jacques Audiard | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Joséphine de Meaux, Vincent Rottiers, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Dheepan
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
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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