Lover of the Last Empress vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.9/10 for Lover of the Last Empress). Lover of the Last Empress is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 5m. Lover of the Last Empress is the older of the two (1995 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Lover of the Last Empress
Special Unit - The First Murder| Lover of the Last Empress | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 1995 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Andrew Lau Wai-Keung | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Tony Leung Ka-fai, Yu Rongguang, Lau Shun, Chingmy Yau, Yvonne Yung Hung | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Lover of the Last Empress
The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with…
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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