Impulse vs Searching

Searching has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 4.9/10 for Impulse). Impulse is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 42m. Impulse is the older of the two (2008 against 2018). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Impulse posterImpulse2008 VS Searching posterSearching2018
ImpulseSearching
Audience score★ 4.9/10★ 7.6/10
Year20082018
Length1h 41m1h 42m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorCharles T. KanganisAneesh Chaganty
Main castRobert Moloney, Nancy Sivak, Angus Macfadyen, Kathleen Duborg, C. Ernst HarthJohn Cho, Melissa Disney, Ben Cain, Sean O'Bryan, Michelle La

Synopsis

Impulse

Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison, enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.

Searching

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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