Silence vs The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.1/10 for Silence). Silence is the shorter watch at 2h 41m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2016). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Silence posterSilence2016 VS The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003
SilenceThe Best of Youth
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 8.1/10
Year20162003
Length2h 41m6h 7m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History, Romance
Country––
DirectorMartin ScorseseMarco Tullio Giordana
Main castTadanobu Asano, Yoshi Oida, Liam Neeson, Issey Ogata, Shinya TsukamotoLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis

Silence

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

The Best of Youth

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

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