Sherlock: The Abominable Bride vs Sparkling Cyanide

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6/10 for Sparkling Cyanide). Sherlock: The Abominable Bride is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 40m. Sparkling Cyanide is the older of the two (1983 against 2016). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride posterSherlock: The Abominable Bride2016 VS Sparkling Cyanide posterSparkling Cyanide1983
Sherlock: The Abominable BrideSparkling Cyanide
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 6.0/10
Year20161983
Length1h 30m1h 40m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV MovieCrime, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorDouglas MackinnonRobert Michael Lewis
Main castMark Gatiss, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Jonathan ArisDeborah Raffin, Josef Sommer, Anthony Andrews, Anne Rogers, Ismael 'East' Carlo

Synopsis

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

Sparkling Cyanide

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.

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