Kursk vs Timur
Kursk has the higher audience score (6.6/10 against 4.5/10 for Timur). Timur is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 58m. Kursk is the older of the two (2018 against 2025). Both are action, drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Kursk
Timur| Kursk | Timur | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 4.5/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 58m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, Thriller | Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War |
| Country | – | Indonesia |
| Director | Thomas Vinterberg | Iko Uwais |
| Main cast | Max von Sydow, Léa Seydoux, Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, August Diehl | Iko Uwais, Yasamin Jasem, Kiki Narendra, Andri Mashadi, Yusuf Mahardika |
Synopsis
Kursk
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their…
Timur
Follows the real-life international hostage crisis that took place in Mapenduma in 1996. The subsequent rescue operation was overseen by now-Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.