Experimenter vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Experimenter). Experimenter is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 5m. Experimenter is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Experimenter | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Michael Almereyda | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Peter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis Haysbert | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Experimenter
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s…
Special Unit - The First Murder
Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…
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