Origin vs Reading Lolita in Tehran

Origin has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Reading Lolita in Tehran). Origin is the shorter watch at 5m compared with 1h 48m. Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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OriginReading Lolita in Tehran
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.3/10
Year20242024
Length5m1h 48m
GenresDrama, HorrorDrama
CountryGB–
DirectorJoby StephensEran Riklis
Main castImmy Taylor, Emma HutchingsLara Wolf, Rita Yahan-Farouz, Raha Rahbari, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Diako

Synopsis

Origin

1896. Left behind in the family manor, young Mary plays hide and seek with the servant, Beth. But as the game unfolds, she realises Beth isn’t the only one searching for her… Something else is lurking in the dark. And it’s ready to play.

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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