Hair of the Bear vs Taking Lives

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.4/10 for Taking Lives). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 43m. Taking Lives is the older of the two (2004 against 2026). Both are thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS Taking Lives posterTaking Lives2004
Hair of the BearTaking Lives
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.4/10
Year20262004
Length1h 32m1h 43m
GenresDrama, ThrillerThriller
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanD.J. Caruso
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceKiefer Sutherland, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Justin Chatwin, Angelina Jolie

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

Taking Lives

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

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