Burt vs Dogtooth
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Dogtooth). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 38m. Dogtooth is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Dogtooth| Burt | Dogtooth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos Passalis, Mary Tsoni |
Synopsis
Burt
Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.
Dogtooth
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his…