Full Metal Jacket vs Persian Lessons
Full Metal Jacket has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Full Metal Jacket is the shorter watch at 1h 57m compared with 2h 7m. Full Metal Jacket is the older of the two (1987 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Full Metal Jacket
Persian Lessons| Full Metal Jacket | Persian Lessons | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 1987 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 57m | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Stanley Kubrick | Vadim Perelman |
| Main cast | Adam Baldwin, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'Ross | Alexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis |
Synopsis
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Persian Lessons
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by…
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