Flickering Lights vs The Heat

Flickering Lights has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6.6/10 for The Heat). Flickering Lights is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 1h 57m. Flickering Lights is the older of the two (2000 against 2013). Both are action, comedy, crime movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Flickering Lights posterFlickering Lights2000 VS The Heat posterThe Heat2013
Flickering LightsThe Heat
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 6.6/10
Year20002013
Length1h 49m1h 57m
GenresAction, Comedy, CrimeAction, Comedy, Crime
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorAnders Thomas JensenPaul Feig
Main castMads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Iben Hjejle, Bent Mejding, Ulrich ThomsenMichael Rapaport, Marlon Wayans, Sandra Bullock, Demián Bichir, William Xifaras

Synopsis

Flickering Lights

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

The Heat

Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, and uses her gut instinct and street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals. Neither has ever had a partner, or a friend for that matter. When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring…

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