Last Days (2025) vs National Theatre Live: King Lear

Last Days (2025) has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for National Theatre Live: King Lear). Last Days (2025) is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 3h 25m. National Theatre Live: King Lear is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Last Days (2025)National Theatre Live: King Lear
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20252014
Length2h 3h 25m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorJustin LinRobin Lough, Sam Mendes
Main castNaveen Andrews, Ciara Bravo, Ken Leung, Sky Yang, Toby WallaceSam Troughton, Paapa Essiedu, Adrian Scarborough, Simon Manyonda, Stanley Townsend

Synopsis

Last Days (2025)

Determined to fulfill his life’s mission, 26-year-old John Allen Chau embarks on a dangerous adventure across the globe to convert the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island to Christianity, while a detective from the Andaman Islands races to stop him before he does harm to himself or the tribe.

National Theatre Live: King Lear

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

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