Broken Embraces vs Hedda
Broken Embraces has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 4.7/10 for Hedda). Hedda is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 7m. Broken Embraces is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Broken Embraces
Hedda| Broken Embraces | Hedda | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 4.7/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 7m | 1h 47m |
| Genres | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Drama, Romance, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Nia DaCosta |
| Main cast | Kira Miró, Penélope Cruz, Kiti Mánver, Tamar Novas, Rossy de Palma | Tessa Thompson, Tom Bateman, Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Kathryn Hunter |
Synopsis
Broken Embraces
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Hedda
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
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