Alone in Berlin vs How I Live Now

Alone in Berlin has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 6.6/10 for How I Live Now). How I Live Now is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 43m. How I Live Now is the older of the two (2013 against 2016). Both are drama, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Alone in Berlin posterAlone in Berlin2016 VS How I Live Now posterHow I Live Now2013
Alone in BerlinHow I Live Now
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 6.6/10
Year20162013
Length1h 43m1h 41m
GenresDrama, Thriller, WarAction, Drama, Thriller, War
Country–Canada
DirectorVincent PerezKevin Macdonald
Main castLouis Hofmann, Brendan Gleeson, Lars Rudolph, Emma Thompson, Daniel BrühlTom Holland, Corey Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis

Alone in Berlin

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to…

How I Live Now

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.

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