The Light Between Oceans vs Where the Wind Blows

Where the Wind Blows has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.1/10 for The Light Between Oceans). Where the Wind Blows is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 13m. The Light Between Oceans is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Light Between Oceans posterThe Light Between Oceans2016 VS Where the Wind Blows posterWhere the Wind Blows2025
The Light Between OceansWhere the Wind Blows
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 9.0/10
Year20162025
Length2h 13m1h 30m
GenresDrama, RomanceDrama, Romance, Western
Country–United States of America
DirectorDerek CianfranceJohn Schimke
Main castMichael Fassbender, Jane Menelaus, Bryan Brown, Rachel Weisz, Alicia VikanderMichelle Hurd, Lochlyn Munro, Gabriel Clark, C. Thomas Howell, Rob Mayes

Synopsis

The Light Between Oceans

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Where the Wind Blows

Chase, a rugged cowboy and solitary drifter who closed off his heart long ago—until the day he impulsively does a kindness for a beautiful young woman, and everything changes over the course of three days.

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