Special Unit - The First Murder vs Widow's Walk

Special Unit - The First Murder has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.7/10 for Widow's Walk). Widow's Walk is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 5m. Widow's Walk is the older of the two (1987 against 2025). Both are crime movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Special Unit - The First Murder posterSpecial Unit - The First Murder2025 VS Widow's Walk posterWidow's Walk1987
Special Unit - The First MurderWidow's Walk
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 5.7/10
Year20251987
Length2h 5m1h 42m
GenresCrime, Drama, HistoryCrime
Country––
DirectorChristoffer BoePierre Granier-Deferre
Main castNicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille LehfeldtMarie Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Hiegel, Laura Betti

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…

Widow's Walk

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found again. As the ocean rejects a new corpse everyday, the mystery thickens and the list of potential suspects grows longer. This slows Molinat's progress as much as the cumbersome Leroyer, sent in to spy on him and hopefully impede…

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