Rape and Death of a Housewife vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Rape and Death of a Housewife). Rape and Death of a Housewife is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 5m. Rape and Death of a Housewife is the older of the two (1978 against 2025). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Special Unit - The First Murder| Rape and Death of a Housewife | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 1978 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Noboru Tanaka | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Hideo Murota, Hōsei Komatsu, Moeko Ezawa, Haruko Toda, Noriko Kurosawa | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Special Unit - The First Murder
Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…
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