Primal Fear vs The Constant Gardener

Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7/10 for The Constant Gardener). Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2005). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Primal Fear posterPrimal Fear1996 VS The Constant Gardener posterThe Constant Gardener2005
Primal FearThe Constant Gardener
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 7.0/10
Year19962005
Length2h 9m2h 9m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of AmericaGermany
DirectorGregory HoblitFernando Meirelles
Main castJon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura LinneyArchie Panjabi, Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Danny Huston, Rachel Weisz

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.

The Constant Gardener

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

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