Five Minutes of Heaven vs L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.1/10 for Five Minutes of Heaven). Five Minutes of Heaven is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 2h 18m. L.A. Confidential is the older of the two (1997 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Five Minutes of Heaven posterFive Minutes of Heaven2009 VS L.A. Confidential posterL.A. Confidential1997
Five Minutes of HeavenL.A. Confidential
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 7.8/10
Year20091997
Length1h 29m2h 18m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorOliver HirschbiegelCurtis Hanson
Main castJames Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Richard Dormer, Liam Neeson, Niamh CusackRon Rifkin, Guy Pearce, Simon Baker, Danny DeVito, Russell Crowe

Synopsis

Five Minutes of Heaven

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

L.A. Confidential

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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