Only Lovers Left Alive vs The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Only Lovers Left Alive). Only Lovers Left Alive is the shorter watch at 2h 3m compared with 2h 46m. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the older of the two (2008 against 2013). Both are drama, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Only Lovers Left Alive posterOnly Lovers Left Alive2013 VS The Curious Case of Benjamin Button posterThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008
Only Lovers Left AliveThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 7.6/10
Year20132008
Length2h 3m2h 46m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Fantasy, Romance
Country–United States of America
DirectorJim JarmuschDavid Fincher
Main castJohn Hurt, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Anton YelchinJulia Ormond, Taraji P. Henson, Jared Harris, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt

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.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin…

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