Bitter Christmas vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.4/10 for Bitter Christmas). Bitter Christmas is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 2h 15m. National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies is the older of the two (2023 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bitter Christmas
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies| Bitter Christmas | National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 9.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 52m | 2h 15m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama, History |
| Country | Spain | United Kingdom |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Jeremy Herrin |
| Main cast | Milena Smit, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rossy de Palma, Bárbara Lennie, Quim Gutiérrez | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe |
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.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.
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