Flood vs Genius
Flood has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.5/10 for Genius). Flood is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 44m. Genius is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Flood
Genius| Flood | Genius | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Martin Gonda | Michael Grandage |
| Main cast | Sara Chripáková, Jozef Pantlikáš, Katarína Babejová, Vladimíra Štefániková, Michal Soltész | Jude Law, Dominic West, Laura Linney, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce |
Synopsis
Flood
In communist Czechoslovakia in 1980, Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot. But her father, a widowed Ruthenian farmer, insists she stay and work the land. When her village faces destruction due to a new dam, their generational conflict intensifies, revealing the struggle between tradition, identity, and the desire for freedom in a context of historical change.
Genius
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.