Burt vs Machuca
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Machuca). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 56m. Machuca is the older of the two (2004 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Machuca| Burt | Machuca | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2004 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 56m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Andrés Wood |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Tiago Correa, Federico Luppi, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim |
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.
Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become…