L.A. Confidential vs Sparkling Cyanide

L.A. Confidential has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6/10 for Sparkling Cyanide). Sparkling Cyanide is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 18m. Sparkling Cyanide is the older of the two (1983 against 1997). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

L.A. Confidential posterL.A. Confidential1997 VS Sparkling Cyanide posterSparkling Cyanide1983
L.A. ConfidentialSparkling Cyanide
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 6.0/10
Year19971983
Length2h 18m1h 40m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorCurtis HansonRobert Michael Lewis
Main castRon Rifkin, Guy Pearce, Simon Baker, Danny DeVito, Russell CroweDeborah Raffin, Josef Sommer, Anthony Andrews, Anne Rogers, Ismael 'East' Carlo

Synopsis

L.A. Confidential

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

Sparkling Cyanide

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

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