Primal Fear vs Shanghai
Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.1/10 for Shanghai). Shanghai is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 2h 9m. Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2010). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Primal Fear
Shanghai| Primal Fear | Shanghai | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.1/10 |
| Year | 1996 | 2010 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Gregory Hoblit | Mikael Håfström |
| Main cast | Jon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura Linney | Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Wong, Franka Potente, David Morse |
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.
Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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