Bitter Christmas vs The Intouchables

The Intouchables has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.4/10 for Bitter Christmas). Bitter Christmas is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 1h 53m. The Intouchables is the older of the two (2011 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bitter Christmas posterBitter Christmas2026 VS The Intouchables posterThe Intouchables2011
Bitter ChristmasThe Intouchables
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 8.3/10
Year20262011
Length1h 52m1h 53m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
CountrySpain–
DirectorPedro AlmodóvarÉric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Main castMilena Smit, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rossy de Palma, Bárbara Lennie, Quim GutiérrezOmar Sy, François Caron, François Cluzet, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot

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.

The Intouchables

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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