Gimme Shelter vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Gimme Shelter). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 41m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2013). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Gimme ShelterNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20132012
Length1h 41m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorRon KraussPolly Findlay
Main castRosario Dawson, Dascha Polanco, Brendan Fraser, James Earl Jones, Vanessa HudgensAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Gimme Shelter

After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

National Theatre Live: Antigone

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…

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