Only Lovers Left Alive vs Ride Your Wave

Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Only Lovers Left Alive). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 3m. Only Lovers Left Alive is the older of the two (2013 against 2019). Both are drama, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Only Lovers Left Alive posterOnly Lovers Left Alive2013 VS Ride Your Wave posterRide Your Wave2019
Only Lovers Left AliveRide Your Wave
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 7.6/10
Year20132019
Length2h 3m1h 34m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country–Japan
DirectorJim JarmuschMasaaki Yuasa
Main castJohn Hurt, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Anton YelchinRina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto

Synopsis

Only Lovers Left Alive

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Ride Your Wave

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

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