Inglourious Basterds vs Persian Lessons

Inglourious Basterds has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Persian Lessons is the shorter watch at 2h 7m compared with 2h 33m. Inglourious Basterds is the older of the two (2009 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Inglourious Basterds posterInglourious Basterds2009 VS Persian Lessons posterPersian Lessons2020
Inglourious BasterdsPersian Lessons
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 7.6/10
Year20092020
Length2h 33m2h 7m
GenresDrama, Thriller, WarDrama, War
Country–Russia
DirectorQuentin TarantinoVadim Perelman
Main castMichael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Denis Ménochet, Christoph WaltzAlexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis

Synopsis

Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Persian Lessons

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by…

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