Green Book vs The Rays and Shadows

Green Book has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.5/10 for The Rays and Shadows). Green Book is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 3h 19m. Green Book is the older of the two (2018 against 2026). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Green Book posterGreen Book2018 VS The Rays and Shadows posterThe Rays and Shadows2026
Green BookThe Rays and Shadows
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 7.5/10
Year20182026
Length2h 10m3h 19m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorPeter FarrellyXavier Giannoli
Main castSebastian Maniscalco, Viggo Mortensen, P.J. Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Joe CorteseAndré Marcon, Vincent Colombe, Jean Dujardin, August Diehl, Elina Löwensohn

Synopsis

Green Book

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

The Rays and Shadows

Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris…

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