Primal Fear vs The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.7/10 for Primal Fear). The Sixth Sense is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 9m. Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 1999). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Primal Fear posterPrimal Fear1996 VS The Sixth Sense posterThe Sixth Sense1999
Primal FearThe Sixth Sense
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 7.9/10
Year19961999
Length2h 9m1h 47m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorGregory HoblitM. Night Shyamalan
Main castJon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura LinneyDonnie Wahlberg, Olivia Williams, Angelica Page, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette

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 Sixth Sense

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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