O Fantasma vs Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for O Fantasma). O Fantasma is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 32m. O Fantasma is the older of the two (2000 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

O Fantasma posterO Fantasma2000 VS Once Upon a Time in a Cinema posterOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema2026
O FantasmaOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
Audience score★ 6.2/10★ 10.0/10
Year20002026
Length1h 27m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryPortugalIreland
DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesDavid Gleeson
Main castRicardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato, André Barbosa, Eurico Vieira, Joaquim OliveiraColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'Brien

Synopsis

O Fantasma

Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema.

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