Once Upon a Time in a Cinema vs The Deep

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for The Deep). Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 35m. The Deep is the older of the two (2012 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 The Deep posterThe Deep2012
Once Upon a Time in a CinemaThe Deep
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.3/10
Year20262012
Length1h 32m1h 35m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryIreland–
DirectorDavid GleesonBaltasar Kormákur
Main castColin Morgan, Andrew Bennett, Niamh Cusack, Stanley Townsend, Liam O'BrienÓlafur Darri Ólafsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Björn Thors

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.

The Deep

Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.

Where to watch

Where to watch Once Upon a Time in a CinemaWhere to watch The Deep

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