My Week with Maisy vs Recollections of the Yellow House

My Week with Maisy has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.9/10 for Recollections of the Yellow House). My Week with Maisy is the shorter watch at 18m compared with 2h 2m. Recollections of the Yellow House is the older of the two (1989 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

My Week with Maisy posterMy Week with Maisy2024 VS Recollections of the Yellow House posterRecollections of the Yellow House1989
My Week with MaisyRecollections of the Yellow House
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.9/10
Year20241989
Length18m2h 2m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
Country––
DirectorMika SimmonsJoão César Monteiro
Main castMyAnna Buring, Joanna Lumley, Poppy Gilbert, Ellie-Mae Siame, Adrian ChristopherJoão Pedro Bénard, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Luís Miguel Cintra, Inês de Medeiros

Synopsis

My Week with Maisy

Mrs Foster, a retired lady whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a 'know it all child' who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy Jones gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.

Recollections of the Yellow House

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

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