Primal Fear vs The Manchurian Candidate
Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.5/10 for The Manchurian Candidate). Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2004). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Primal Fear
The Manchurian Candidate| Primal Fear | The Manchurian Candidate | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 1996 | 2004 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 2h 9m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Gregory Hoblit | Jonathan Demme |
| Main cast | Jon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura Linney | Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight |
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 Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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