Hotel Rwanda vs The Shadow in My Eye

Hotel Rwanda and The Shadow in My Eye are tied on audience score (7.7/10). The Shadow in My Eye is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 1m. Hotel Rwanda is the older of the two (2004 against 2021). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hotel Rwanda posterHotel Rwanda2004 VS The Shadow in My Eye posterThe Shadow in My Eye2021
Hotel RwandaThe Shadow in My Eye
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 7.8/10
Year20042021
Length2h 1m1h 47m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, War
Country––
DirectorTerry GeorgeOle Bornedal
Main castDon Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Cara Seymour, Nick Nolte, David O'HaraAlex Høgh Andersen, Danica Ćurčić, James Tarpey, Fanny Leander Bornedal, Rikke Louise Andersson

Synopsis

Hotel Rwanda

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

The Shadow in My Eye

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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