Lumumba vs The Yellow Tie

The Yellow Tie has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 25m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lumumba posterLumumba2000 VS The Yellow Tie posterThe Yellow Tie2025
LumumbaThe Yellow Tie
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.7/10
Year20002025
Length1h 55m2h 25m
GenresDrama, HistoryAdventure, Drama, History, Music
Country–Romania
DirectorRaoul PeckSerge Ioan Celebidachi
Main castÉriq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka KottoTamzin Merchant, Anton Lesser, Miranda Richardson, John Malkovich, Sean Bean

Synopsis

Lumumba

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…

The Yellow Tie

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.

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