Small Things Like These vs The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.7/10 for Small Things Like These). Small Things Like These is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Small Things Like These posterSmall Things Like These2024 VS The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003
Small Things Like TheseThe Best of Youth
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 8.1/10
Year20242003
Length1h 39m6h 7m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History, Romance
Country––
DirectorTim MielantsMarco Tullio Giordana
Main castCillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh, Zara DevlinLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis

Small Things Like These

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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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