Gioia vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Gioia). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 48m. The French Italian is the older of the two (2024 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Gioia
The French Italian| Gioia | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Nicolangelo Gelormini | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Golino, Betti Pedrazzi, Saul Nanni, Laura Mazzi | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
Gioia
Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire…
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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