Special Unit - The First Murder vs Tsotsi
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7/10 for Tsotsi). Tsotsi is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 5m. Tsotsi is the older of the two (2005 against 2025). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Special Unit - The First Murder
Tsotsi| Special Unit - The First Murder | Tsotsi | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2005 |
| Length | 2h 5m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, History | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Christoffer Boe | Gavin Hood |
| Main cast | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt | Nambitha Mpumlwana, Presley Chweneyagae, Jerry Mofokeng, Terry Pheto, Zenzo Ngqobe |
Synopsis
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…
Tsotsi
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
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