Ripley's Game vs The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.4/10 for Ripley's Game). The Usual Suspects is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 1h 50m. The Usual Suspects is the older of the two (1995 against 2002). Both are crime, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Ripley's GameThe Usual Suspects
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 8.2/10
Year20021995
Length1h 50m1h 46m
GenresCrime, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorLiliana CavaniBryan Singer
Main castLena Headey, Dougray Scott, John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Chiara CaselliKevin Pollak, Giancarlo Esposito, Benicio del Toro, Dan Hedaya, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis

Ripley's Game

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and…

The Usual Suspects

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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