Persecution vs The Human Stain

Persecution has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6/10 for The Human Stain). Persecution is the shorter watch at 1h 22m compared with 1h 46m. Persecution is the older of the two (1972 against 2003). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Persecution posterPersecution1972 VS The Human Stain posterThe Human Stain2003
PersecutionThe Human Stain
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year19722003
Length1h 22m1h 46m
GenresDrama, Music, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance
Country––
DirectorAtıf YılmazRobert Benton
Main castTürkan Şoray, Murat Soydan, Muammer Gözalan, Nedret Güvenç, Kayhan YıldızoğluWentworth Miller, Gary Sinise, Clark Gregg, Margo Martindale, Kerry Washington

Synopsis

Persecution

Ayla is a conservatory student. Through a coincidence, she meets Tarık, a famous composer. They fall in love and soon become engaged. On a trip abroad, Tarık experiences one of Ayla's biggest traumas. This disaster will affect the fate of the duo in a bad way.

The Human Stain

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

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