Rags vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 7.3/10 for Rags). Rags is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 41m. Rags is the older of the two (2012 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Rags
The Stories| Rags | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music, TV Movie | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Bille Woodruff | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Isaiah Mustafa, Drake Bell, Keke Palmer, Burkely Duffield, Zak Santiago | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
Rags
Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't seem to catch a break. Kadee Worth, on the other hand, is the daughter of music mogul Reginald Worth and is an international pop phenomenon. While the world knows her as a glamorous superstar, she is secretly…
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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