Flies vs Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.6/10 for Flies). Flies is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 56m. Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Flies
Life Is Beautiful| Flies | Life Is Beautiful | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 8.4/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 1997 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 1h 56m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | Italy |
| Director | Fernando Eimbcke | Roberto Benigni |
| Main cast | Teresa Sánchez, Bastián Escobar, Hugo Ramírez, Enrique Arreola | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric |
Synopsis
Flies
Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.
Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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