Girls vs Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 4.2/10 for Girls). Girls is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 56m. Girls is the older of the two (1980 against 1997). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Girls posterGirls1980 VS Life Is Beautiful posterLife Is Beautiful1997
GirlsLife Is Beautiful
Audience score★ 4.2/10★ 8.4/10
Year19801997
Length1h 35m1h 56m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
Country–Italy
DirectorJust JaeckinRoberto Benigni
Main castAnne Parillaud, Etienne Chicot, Christophe Bourseiller, Gérard Loussine, Philippe KlébertRoberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric

Synopsis

Girls

Three girls: Susanne, Annie and Catherine, just have finished high school and meet every night to have a good time in discos and bars with frequently changing boyfriends. Susanne’s younger sister Betty often joins them and copies their behavior, believes everything they say. So she soon ends up with with projectionist George – although she doesn’t take the pill yet.

Life Is Beautiful

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

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