National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Silence

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.1/10 for Silence). National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies is the shorter watch at 2h 15m compared with 2h 41m. Silence is the older of the two (2016 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS Silence posterSilence2016
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesSilence
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20232016
Length2h 15m2h 41m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinMartin Scorsese
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweTadanobu Asano, Yoshi Oida, Liam Neeson, Issey Ogata, Shinya Tsukamoto

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Silence

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

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