Recount vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Recount). Recount is the shorter watch at 1h 56m compared with 2h 5m. Recount is the older of the two (2008 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Recount
Special Unit - The First Murder| Recount | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History, TV Movie | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Jay Roach | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | John Hurt, Mitch Pileggi, Derek Cecil, Denis Leary, Bob Balaban | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Recount
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
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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