Flood vs Pollock
Flood has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.7/10 for Pollock). Flood is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 12m. Pollock is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Flood
Pollock| Flood | Pollock | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Martin Gonda | Ed Harris |
| Main cast | Sara Chripáková, Jozef Pantlikáš, Katarína Babejová, Vladimíra Štefániková, Michal Soltész | Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower, Bud Cort |
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.
Pollock
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the…