No One Believed Me vs The Optimist

No One Believed Me has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Optimist). No One Believed Me is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 42m. The Optimist is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

No One Believed Me posterNo One Believed Me2025 VS The Optimist posterThe Optimist2023
No One Believed MeThe Optimist
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.0/10
Year20252023
Length1h 30m1h 42m
GenresCrime, Drama, TV MovieDrama
CountryUnited States of AmericaCzech Republic
DirectorDave ThomasFinn Taylor
Main castJohn Castle, William McKinney, Meghan Carrasquillo, Jessica Morris, Daniel Di AmanteStephen Lang, Robin Weigert, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm, Stephanie Heiner

Synopsis

No One Believed Me

A woman who escaped the clutches of a dangerous man only for no one in her small town to believe her. When he hunts her down again and drags her to a rural location where no one can hear her scream.

The Optimist

Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

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