Darkest Hour vs The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.4/10 for Darkest Hour). Darkest Hour is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2017). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Darkest Hour posterDarkest Hour2017 VS The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003
Darkest HourThe Best of Youth
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 8.1/10
Year20172003
Length2h 5m6h 7m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History, Romance
Country––
DirectorJoe WrightMarco Tullio Giordana
Main castBen Mendelsohn, Adrian Rawlins, Joe Armstrong, Benjamin Whitrow, David SchofieldLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis

Darkest Hour

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

The Best of Youth

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

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