National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs The Innocents

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.1/10 for The Innocents). The Innocents is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 15m. The Innocents 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 The Innocents posterThe Innocents2016
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesThe Innocents
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20232016
Length2h 15m1h 55m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited KingdomBelgium
DirectorJeremy HerrinAnne Fontaine
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweHelena Sujecka, Joanna Kulig, Vincent Macaigne, Agata Kulesza, Thomas Coumans

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.

The Innocents

Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.

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