Downbeat vs Taking Sides
Downbeat has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Downbeat is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 48m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2026). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Downbeat
Taking Sides| Downbeat | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h 31m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama, Music | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Danny Madden | István Szabó |
| Main cast | Christie Lynn Smith, Gary Galone, Will Madden, Skyler Bible, Dustin Hahn | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
Synopsis
Downbeat
Fleeing mistakes in Atlanta, Mauro crashes on his sister’s couch in Boston. He takes to bucket drumming on the streets for a way out, but can’t stop screwing things up and drawing everyone else into his own feral shortcomings.
Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute…
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