Mantrap vs Memories of Murder

Memories of Murder has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.6/10 for Mantrap). Mantrap is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 2h 11m. Mantrap is the older of the two (1953 against 2003). Both are crime, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mantrap posterMantrap1953 VS Memories of Murder posterMemories of Murder2003
MantrapMemories of Murder
Audience score★ 5.6/10★ 8.1/10
Year19532003
Length1h 13m2h 11m
GenresCrime, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country–South Korea
DirectorTerence FisherBong Joon Ho
Main castAnthony Forwood, Lois Maxwell, Paul Henreid, Kieron Moore, Hugh SinclairByun Hee-bong, Kim Roi-ha, Song Kang-ho, Yoo Seung-mok, Ryu Tae-ho

Synopsis

Mantrap

Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's…

Memories of Murder

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.

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