Maspalomas vs Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Maspalomas). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 55m. Maspalomas is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Maspalomas posterMaspalomas2025 VS Once Upon a Time in a Cinema posterOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema2026
MaspalomasOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252026
Length1h 55m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Ireland
DirectorAitor Arregi, Jose Mari GoenagaDavid Gleeson
Main castZorion Eguileor, Kandido Uranga, Nagore Aranburu, José Ramón Soroiz, Kepa ErrastiColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'Brien

Synopsis

Maspalomas

After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the daughter he abandoned years ago. Vicente will have to live in a retirement home where he finds himself driven back into the closet and to conceal a part of himself that he thought was long resolved…

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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