Murder in the Highland Manor vs Sparkling Cyanide

Sparkling Cyanide has the higher audience score (6/10 against 3/10 for Murder in the Highland Manor). Murder in the Highland Manor is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 40m. Sparkling Cyanide is the older of the two (1983 against 2026). Both are mystery, thriller, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Murder in the Highland Manor posterMurder in the Highland Manor2026 VS Sparkling Cyanide posterSparkling Cyanide1983
Murder in the Highland ManorSparkling Cyanide
Audience score★ 3.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year20261983
Length1h 30m1h 40m
GenresMystery, Thriller, TV MovieCrime, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorRyan DewarRobert Michael Lewis
Main castPaul Luebke, Megan Lockhurst, Brooke Burfitt, Anja Cilia, Mariah BaillieDeborah Raffin, Josef Sommer, Anthony Andrews, Anne Rogers, Ismael 'East' Carlo

Synopsis

Murder in the Highland Manor

Kate takes a job as a live-in tutor at a secluded Scottish estate for a mother and daughter who’ve escaped domestic abuse. But when she discovers the previous au pair mysteriously disappeared, Kate becomes embroiled in the family’s deadly secrets.

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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