A Sad and Beautiful World vs Rules Don't Apply
A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.8/10 for Rules Don't Apply). A Sad and Beautiful World is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 7m. Rules Don't Apply 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
Rules Don't Apply| A Sad and Beautiful World | Rules Don't Apply | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 5.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Lebanon | – |
| Director | Cyril Aris | Warren Beatty |
| Main cast | Camille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino Karam | Ed Harris, Lily Collins, Oliver Platt, Taissa Farmiga, Candice Bergen |
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.
Rules Don't Apply
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed…
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