Outlaws vs The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.6/10 for Outlaws). The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 47m. Outlaws is the older of the two (1985 against 1989). Both are action, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Outlaws posterOutlaws1985 VS The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro posterThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro1989
OutlawsThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 9.0/10
Year19851989
Length1h 47m1h 32m
GenresAction, DramaAction, Drama
CountryFranceAustralia
DirectorRobin DavisRobert L. Collins
Main castClovis Cornillac, Wadeck Stanczak, Nathalie Spilmont, Isabelle Pasco, Luc ThuillierLee Grant, Robert Mammone, Christina Pickles, E.G. Marshall, Barry Otto

Synopsis

Outlaws

A handful of teenagers, boys and girls, escape from a reform school and go round town. They go to a ball, the owner asks them to pay the bill.This man is very unpleasant, he hates the youth of today and he is a racist.The incident turns into free -for-all, then into a massacre.The runaways become chased criminals. One of the boys want to take his mates to a deserted village where they would find a refuge. Policemen and farmers are hot on their…

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

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