Burt vs Flies
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Flies). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 41m. Burt is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Flies| Burt | Flies | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Fernando Eimbcke |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Teresa Sánchez, Bastián Escobar, Hugo Ramírez, Enrique Arreola |
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.
Flies
Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.