Dirty Hearts vs The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.7/10 for Dirty Hearts). Dirty Hearts is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 34m. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is the older of the two (2008 against 2012). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dirty Hearts posterDirty Hearts2012 VS The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas posterThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas2008
Dirty HeartsThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.8/10
Year20122008
Length1h 30m1h 34m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, War
CountryBrazil–
DirectorVicente AmorimMark Herman
Main castTsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa, Eiji Okuda, Shun Sugata, Eduardo MoscovisDavid Hayman, Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga, Cara Horgan, David Thewlis

Synopsis

Dirty Hearts

In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by…

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

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