Flood vs Lumumba
Flood has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Flood is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 55m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Flood
Lumumba| Flood | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Martin Gonda | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Sara Chripáková, Jozef Pantlikáš, Katarína Babejová, Vladimíra Štefániková, Michal Soltész | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
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.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…