Call Me Mother vs Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.5/10 for Call Me Mother). Life Is Beautiful is the shorter watch at 1h 56m compared with 2h . Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Call Me Mother posterCall Me Mother2025 VS Life Is Beautiful posterLife Is Beautiful1997
Call Me MotherLife Is Beautiful
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.4/10
Year20251997
Length2h 1h 56m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
Country–Italy
DirectorJun Robles LanaRoberto Benigni
Main castBrent Manalo, Mika Salamanca, River Joseph, Esnyr Ranollo, Klarisse de GuzmanRoberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric

Synopsis

Call Me Mother

Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly reappears.

Life Is Beautiful

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

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