If you loved A History of Violence, try Cape Fear

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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A History of Violence

2005 · dir. David Cronenberg

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Cape Fear

1991 · dir. Martin Scorsese

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to A History of Violence, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Cape Fear is

A North Carolina town, summer heat, a rusty jailhouse gate. A public defender's past mistake haunts him, a vengeful ex-con emerges from the shadows. Scorsese revisits the darkness of American revenge.

If you loved A History of Violence, try Cape Fear

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