A Sad and Beautiful World vs Kings & Queen
A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7/10 for Kings & Queen). A Sad and Beautiful World is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 30m. Kings & Queen is the older of the two (2004 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Sad and Beautiful World
Kings & Queen| A Sad and Beautiful World | Kings & Queen | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2004 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 2h 30m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Lebanon | – |
| Director | Cyril Aris | Arnaud Desplechin |
| Main cast | Camille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino Karam | Catherine Deneuve, Gilles Cohen, Mathieu Amalric, Andrée Tainsy, Hippolyte Girardot |
Synopsis
A Sad and Beautiful World
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
Kings & Queen
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
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