Dandelion vs Lumumba
Dandelion has the higher audience score (9.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Dandelion is the shorter watch at 20m compared with 1h 55m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dandelion
Lumumba| Dandelion | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.2/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 20m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Fiona Obertinca | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Ava Lalezarzadeh, Vic Michaelis, Kristin Carey, Lynn Allinger, Sarah Cortez | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
Synopsis
Dandelion
In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker who's tasked with finding her a new home before the break of dawn. At odds and forced to travel the city together, Margaret realizes that running may not be her only option.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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