Outlaw vs Shottas
Shottas has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.2/10 for Outlaw). Outlaw is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 35m. Shottas is the older of the two (2002 against 2024). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Outlaw
Shottas| Outlaw | Shottas | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h 20m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | João Wainer | Adam Doench, Cess Silvera |
| Main cast | Maria Bomani, Jean Luís Amorim, Milhem Cortaz, João Vitor Nascimento, Jorge Hissa | Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean |
Synopsis
Outlaw
At the age of nine, Rebeca is sold by her grandmother to the bookseller who ran Rocinha. Disputed by bicheiros and drug dealers, the community is going through changes in power. Rebeca becomes the wife of the chief drug dealer and, with the death of her partner, his successor. The electrifying trajectory of crime, violence, drugs and love of a female drug kingpin in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s.
Shottas
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.