Primal Fear vs Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.7/10 for Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974). Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 9m. Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Primal Fear posterPrimal Fear1996 VS Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 posterRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009
Primal FearRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.7/10
Year19962009
Length2h 9m1h 42m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited Kingdom
DirectorGregory HoblitJulian Jarrold
Main castJon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura LinneyMichelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Robert Sheehan, Andrew Garfield

Synopsis

Primal Fear

An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them…

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