Boogie Nights vs Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Boogie Nights). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 36m. Boogie Nights is the older of the two (1997 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Boogie Nights posterBoogie Nights1997 VS Once Upon a Time in a Cinema posterOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema2026
Boogie NightsOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year19972026
Length2h 36m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Ireland
DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonDavid Gleeson
Main castDon Cheadle, William H. Macy, Nicole Ari Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alfred MolinaColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'Brien

Synopsis

Boogie Nights

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole…

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema.

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