Silence vs Special Unit - The First Murder
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Silence). Special Unit - The First Murder is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 41m. Silence is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Silence
Special Unit - The First Murder| Silence | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 41m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Martin Scorsese | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Tadanobu Asano, Yoshi Oida, Liam Neeson, Issey Ogata, Shinya Tsukamoto | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
Synopsis
Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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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