Burt vs Reading Lolita in Tehran
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Reading Lolita in Tehran). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 48m. Reading Lolita in Tehran is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Reading Lolita in Tehran| Burt | Reading Lolita in Tehran | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Eran Riklis |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Lara Wolf, Rita Yahan-Farouz, Raha Rahbari, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Diako |
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.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or…
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