Living Bad vs Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.6/10 for Living Bad). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 4m. Living Bad is the older of the two (2023 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Living Bad posterLiving Bad2023 VS Once Upon a Time in a Cinema posterOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema2026
Living BadOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
Audience score★ 5.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20232026
Length2h 4m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Ireland
DirectorJoão CanijoDavid Gleeson
Main castBeatriz Batarda, Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Nuno Lopes, Leonor VasconcelosColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'Brien

Synopsis

Living Bad

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema.

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