Escape from Pretoria vs Red Joan
Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 6.7/10 for Red Joan). Red Joan is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 42m. Red Joan is the older of the two (2018 against 2020). Both are history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Escape from Pretoria
Red Joan| Escape from Pretoria | Red Joan | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2018 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | History, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Francis Annan | Trevor Nunn |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Ben Miles, Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Nina Sosanya, Judi Dench |
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.
Red Joan
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
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