Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 vs The Girl on the Train

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.4/10 for The Girl on the Train). Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 1h 52m. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 is the older of the two (2009 against 2016). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 posterRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19832009 VS The Girl on the Train posterThe Girl on the Train2016
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983The Girl on the Train
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 6.4/10
Year20092016
Length1h 45m1h 52m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV MovieCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorAnand TuckerTate Taylor
Main castShaun Dooley, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Sean Harris, Steven RobertsonEmily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Darren Goldstein, Lisa Kudrow, Justin Theroux

Synopsis

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

The Girl on the Train

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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