A Sad and Beautiful World vs Love Actually

A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.1/10 for Love Actually). A Sad and Beautiful World is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 15m. Love Actually is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Sad and Beautiful World posterA Sad and Beautiful World2025 VS Love Actually posterLove Actually2003
A Sad and Beautiful WorldLove Actually
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20252003
Length1h 50m2h 15m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryLebanon–
DirectorCyril ArisRichard Curtis
Main castCamille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino KaramMartin Freeman, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Laura Linney

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.

Love Actually

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

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