Doctor Who: The Snowmen vs Griffin and Phoenix

Doctor Who: The Snowmen has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.3/10 for Griffin and Phoenix). Doctor Who: The Snowmen is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 37m. Griffin and Phoenix is the older of the two (1976 against 2012). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Doctor Who: The SnowmenGriffin and Phoenix
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 5.3/10
Year20121976
Length1h 1h 37m
GenresAdventure, Drama, Family, Science Fiction, TV MovieDrama, TV Movie
Country–United States of America
DirectorSaul MetzsteinDaryl Duke
Main castMatt Smith, Richard E. Grant, Jenna Coleman, Ian McKellen, Juliet CadzowKen Sansom, Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh, Sally Kirkland, George Chandler

Synopsis

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in…

Griffin and Phoenix

Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.

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