Experimenter vs Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.5/10 for Experimenter). Experimenter is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 1m. Experimenter is the older of the two (2015 against 2019). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Experimenter | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 2h 1m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Michael Almereyda | Céline Sciamma |
| Main cast | Peter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Winona Ryder, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis Haysbert | Valeria Golino, Noémie Merlant, Christel Baras, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami |
Synopsis
Experimenter
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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