Billy Elliot vs The Stories
Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.4/10 for The Stories). The Stories is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 50m. Billy Elliot is the older of the two (2000 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Billy Elliot
The Stories| Billy Elliot | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Stephen Daldry | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon…
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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