Hair of the Bear vs The Absent One

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Absent One). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 56m. The Absent One is the older of the two (2014 against 2026). Both are thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS The Absent One posterThe Absent One2014
Hair of the BearThe Absent One
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.0/10
Year20262014
Length1h 32m1h 56m
GenresDrama, ThrillerThriller
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanMikkel Nørgaard
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceMarco Ilsø, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, David Dencik, Peter Christoffersen

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.

The Absent One

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

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