Burt vs Gioia
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Gioia). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 48m. Burt is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Gioia| Burt | Gioia | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Nicolangelo Gelormini |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Golino, Betti Pedrazzi, Saul Nanni, Laura Mazzi |
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.
Gioia
Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire…