Just Mercy vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.9/10 for Just Mercy). Special Unit - The First Murder is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 17m. Just Mercy is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are crime, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Just Mercy
Special Unit - The First Murder| Just Mercy | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 17m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Destin Daniel Cretton | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Andrene Ward-Hammond, Rafe Spall, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Rhoda Griffis, Tim Blake Nelson | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Just Mercy
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Special Unit - The First Murder
Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…
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