Better Living Through Chemistry vs Yalla Habibi!

Better Living Through Chemistry is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 30m. Better Living Through Chemistry is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Better Living Through Chemistry posterBetter Living Through Chemistry2021 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Better Living Through ChemistryYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 0.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20212025
Length1h 27m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorConnie LittlefieldEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castAnn Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, Greg Manning, Brian PerryRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Better Living Through Chemistry

In the 1970s, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin significantly contributed to the development and psychopharmaceutical use of MDMA: a catalyst to personal doors entombed or unknown. His widow, co-author, and research partner, Ann—alongside friends, family, and colleagues—gives a guided tour of their life and laboratory, reflecting on how risks and revelations opened a world of compound enlightenment. Stippled with spirituality, sadness, and…

Yalla Habibi!

FortNine attempts to break the circumnavigation world record with award-winning filmmaker Edwin El Bainou riding pillion. It's a dangerously silly race across thousands of kilometres per day, with the polished and authentic eye that only a ride-along cinematographer can capture. Part documentary and part dark comedy, this is motorcycling as FortNine has never shown before. In less than 19 days, the trio must ride from Anchorage to Miami, Lisbon…

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