Hair of the Bear vs Machuca

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Machuca). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 56m. Machuca is the older of the two (2004 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS Machuca posterMachuca2004
Hair of the BearMachuca
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.8/10
Year20262004
Length1h 32m1h 56m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanAndrés Wood
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceTiago Correa, Federico Luppi, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

Machuca

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become…

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