A Sad and Beautiful World vs Maggie's Plan

A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.7/10 for Maggie's Plan). Maggie's Plan is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 1h 50m. Maggie's Plan 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 Maggie's Plan posterMaggie's Plan2016
A Sad and Beautiful WorldMaggie's Plan
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 5.7/10
Year20252016
Length1h 50m1h 38m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryLebanon–
DirectorCyril ArisRebecca Miller
Main castCamille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino KaramEthan Hawke, Mina Sundwall, Travis Fimmel, Bill Hader, Julianne Moore

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.

Maggie's Plan

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?

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