Escape from Pretoria vs Mr. Jones
Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Mr. Jones). Escape from Pretoria is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 59m. Mr. Jones is the older of the two (2019 against 2020). Both are drama, history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Escape from Pretoria
Mr. Jones| Escape from Pretoria | Mr. Jones | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 59m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Drama, History, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Francis Annan | Agnieszka Holland |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, James Norton, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Kirby |
Synopsis
Escape from Pretoria
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Mr. Jones
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
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