Special Unit - The First Murder vs Waiting for the Barbarians
Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.9/10 for Waiting for the Barbarians). Waiting for the Barbarians is the shorter watch at 1h 54m compared with 2h 5m. Waiting for the Barbarians is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Special Unit - The First Murder
Waiting for the Barbarians| Special Unit - The First Murder | Waiting for the Barbarians | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2019 |
| Length | 2h 5m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Christoffer Boe | Ciro Guerra |
| Main cast | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt | Sam Reid, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson |
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…
Waiting for the Barbarians
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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