Surfacing vs Your Eyes Tell

Your Eyes Tell has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7/10 for Surfacing). Surfacing is the shorter watch at 1h 54m compared with 2h 3m. Surfacing is the older of the two (1970 against 2020). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Surfacing posterSurfacing1970 VS Your Eyes Tell posterYour Eyes Tell2020
SurfacingYour Eyes Tell
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 8.5/10
Year19702020
Length1h 54m2h 3m
GenresDrama, RomanceDrama, Romance
Country––
DirectorChristian SmithTakahiro Miki
Main castCindy Sampson, Colton Gobbo, Linda Kash, Sheila McCarthy, Jonas ChernickKyosuke Yabe, Yoshinori Okada, Jun Fubuki, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Toru Nomaguchi

Synopsis

Surfacing

After years of struggling with severe depression, a young man begins to open his heart, learning to love himself and others. When he becomes entangled in his therapist’s personal life, he discovers not only her need for support but also a tender, transformative connection with another man, Jackson. Through this intimate journey of trust, vulnerability, and queer romance, he confronts his past, embraces love, and finds hope in human connection.

Your Eyes Tell

A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Akari's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.

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