Pretty When You Cry vs The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 3.4/10 for Pretty When You Cry). Pretty When You Cry is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 59m. The Silence of the Lambs is the older of the two (1991 against 2001). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Pretty When You Cry posterPretty When You Cry2001 VS The Silence of the Lambs posterThe Silence of the Lambs1991
Pretty When You CryThe Silence of the Lambs
Audience score★ 3.4/10★ 8.3/10
Year20011991
Length1h 30m1h 59m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorJack N. GreenJonathan Demme
Main castSam Elliott, Jamie Kennedy, Carlton Elizabeth, Michael Cavalieri, Lori HeuringAnthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Brooke Smith, Tracey Walter, Anthony Heald

Synopsis

Pretty When You Cry

A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.

The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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