I Am a Hero vs The Student of Prague

I Am a Hero has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 6.6/10 for The Student of Prague). I Am a Hero is the shorter watch at 2h 6m compared with 2h 13m. The Student of Prague is the older of the two (1926 against 2016). Both are drama, horror movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Am a Hero posterI Am a Hero2016 VS The Student of Prague posterThe Student of Prague1926
I Am a HeroThe Student of Prague
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 6.6/10
Year20161926
Length2h 6m2h 13m
GenresAction, Drama, HorrorDrama, Horror
Country––
DirectorShinsuke SatoHenrik Galeen
Main castMasami Nagasawa, Nana Katase, Yo Oizumi, Yoshinori Okada, Kasumi ArimuraConrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Agnes Esterhazy, Ferdinand von Alten

Synopsis

I Am a Hero

Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to…

The Student of Prague

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

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