Ariel vs The Best Offer

The Best Offer has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Ariel). Ariel is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 2h 11m. Ariel is the older of the two (1988 against 2013). Both are crime, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Ariel posterAriel1988 VS The Best Offer posterThe Best Offer2013
ArielThe Best Offer
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 7.8/10
Year19882013
Length1h 13m2h 11m
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama, RomanceCrime, Drama, Romance
Country–Italy
DirectorAki KaurismäkiGiuseppe Tornatore
Main castTuro Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo, Erkki PajalaSylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Gen Seto

Synopsis

Ariel

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

The Best Offer

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock…

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