A Sad and Beautiful World vs Love & Friendship

A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.1/10 for Love & Friendship). Love & Friendship is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 50m. Love & Friendship is the older of the two (2016 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 & Friendship posterLove & Friendship2016
A Sad and Beautiful WorldLove & Friendship
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 6.1/10
Year20252016
Length1h 50m1h 34m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryLebanon–
DirectorCyril ArisWhit Stillman
Main castCamille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino KaramMorfydd Clark, Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, James Fleet, Stephen Fry

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 & Friendship

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.

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