Bitter Christmas vs Dandelion
Dandelion has the higher audience score (9.2/10 against 6.4/10 for Bitter Christmas). Dandelion is the shorter watch at 20m compared with 1h 52m. Dandelion is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bitter Christmas
Dandelion| Bitter Christmas | Dandelion | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 9.2/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 20m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama, History |
| Country | Spain | United States of America |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Fiona Obertinca |
| Main cast | Milena Smit, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rossy de Palma, Bárbara Lennie, Quim Gutiérrez | Ava Lalezarzadeh, Vic Michaelis, Kristin Carey, Lynn Allinger, Sarah Cortez |
Synopsis
Bitter Christmas
In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.
Dandelion
In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who's tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.
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