Once Upon a Time in a Cinema vs Reading Lolita in Tehran
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Reading Lolita in Tehran). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 48m. Reading Lolita in Tehran is the older of the two (2024 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Reading Lolita in Tehran| Once Upon a Time in a Cinema | Reading Lolita in Tehran | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Ireland | – |
| Director | David Gleeson | Eran Riklis |
| Main cast | Colin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'Brien | Lara Wolf, Rita Yahan-Farouz, Raha Rahbari, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Diako |
Synopsis
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.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or…
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