National Theatre Live: The Audience vs The Girl with the Needle

National Theatre Live: The Audience has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 7.6/10 for The Girl with the Needle). The Girl with the Needle is the shorter watch at 2h 3m compared with 2h 22m. National Theatre Live: The Audience is the older of the two (2013 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013 VS The Girl with the Needle posterThe Girl with the Needle2024
National Theatre Live: The AudienceThe Girl with the Needle
Audience score★ 8.3/10★ 7.6/10
Year20132024
Length2h 22m2h 3m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorRobin LoughMagnus von Horn
Main castPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell WilliamsSøren Sætter-Lassen, Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Joachim Fjelstrup, Besir Zeciri

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: The Audience

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

The Girl with the Needle

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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