Bad Tales vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Bad Tales). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 38m. Bad Tales is the older of the two (2020 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bad Tales
The French Italian| Bad Tales | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Italy | United States of America |
| Director | Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Barbara Chichiarelli, Lino Musella, Aldo Ottobrino, Elio Germano, Sara Bertelà | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
Bad Tales
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this…
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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