Fail Safe vs Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Fail Safe has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.7/10 for Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974). Fail Safe is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 1h 42m. Fail Safe is the older of the two (2000 against 2009). Both are drama, thriller, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fail Safe posterFail Safe2000 VS Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 posterRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009
Fail SafeRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20002009
Length1h 26m1h 42m
GenresDrama, Thriller, TV MovieCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorStephen FrearsJulian Jarrold
Main castDon Cheadle, Sam Elliott, Noah Wyle, Hank Azaria, George ClooneyMichelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Robert Sheehan, Andrew Garfield

Synopsis

Fail Safe

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them…

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