Hotel Dallas vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Hotel Dallas). Hotel Dallas is the shorter watch at 1h 15m compared with 1h 30m. Hotel Dallas is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hotel Dallas posterHotel Dallas2016 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Hotel DallasYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20162025
Length1h 15m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorLivia Ungur, Sherng-Lee HuangEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castPatrick Duffy, Livia UngurRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Hotel Dallas

In communist Romania in the 1980s the population collectively watches "Dallas", their only window into capitalism. Inspired by the US TV show, a young woman decides to emigrate to America. "Hotel Dallas" mixes documentary scenes with staged and experimental sequences.

Yalla Habibi!

FortNine attempts to break the circumnavigation world record with award-winning filmmaker Edwin El Bainou riding pillion. It's a dangerously silly race across thousands of kilometres per day, with the polished and authentic eye that only a ride-along cinematographer can capture. Part documentary and part dark comedy, this is motorcycling as FortNine has never shown before. In less than 19 days, the trio must ride from Anchorage to Miami, Lisbon…

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