Once Upon a Time in a Cinema vs Sundays

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Sundays). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 52m. Sundays is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema posterOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema2026 VS Sundays posterSundays2025
Once Upon a Time in a CinemaSundays
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20262025
Length1h 32m1h 52m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryIreland–
DirectorDavid GleesonAlauda Ruiz de Azúa
Main castColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'BrienItziar Aizpuru, Patricia López Arnaiz, Mabel Rivera, Juan Minujín, Nagore Aranburu

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.

Sundays

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt…

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