Machuca vs The French Italian

The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Machuca). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 56m. Machuca is the older of the two (2004 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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MachucaThe French Italian
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 10.0/10
Year20042024
Length1h 56m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–United States of America
DirectorAndrés WoodRachel Wolther
Main castTiago Correa, Federico Luppi, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline KüppenheimJon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son

Synopsis

Machuca

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become…

The French Italian

Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…

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