Green Book vs Lumumba
Green Book has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 10m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2018). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Green Book
Lumumba| Green Book | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2000 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Peter Farrelly | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Sebastian Maniscalco, Viggo Mortensen, P.J. Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Joe Cortese | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
Synopsis
Green Book
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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