Respect vs Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Respect). Respect is the shorter watch at 2h 25m compared with 2h 27m. Straight Outta Compton is the older of the two (2015 against 2021). Both are drama, history, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Respect posterRespect2021 VS Straight Outta Compton posterStraight Outta Compton2015
RespectStraight Outta Compton
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.8/10
Year20212015
Length2h 25m2h 27m
GenresDrama, History, MusicDrama, History, Music
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorLiesl TommyF. Gary Gray
Main castTate Donovan, Mary J. Blige, Audra McDonald, Hailey Kilgore, Forest WhitakerNeil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, LaKeith Stanfield, Paul Giamatti, Orlando Brown

Synopsis

Respect

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

Straight Outta Compton

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and…

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