Lumumba vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 5m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Lumumba
Special Unit - The First Murder| Lumumba | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Raoul Peck | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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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