The Optimist vs Turbulence
Turbulence has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Optimist). The Optimist is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Optimist
Turbulence| The Optimist | Turbulence | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 42m | – |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Finn Taylor | Claudio Fäh |
| Main cast | Stephen Lang, Robin Weigert, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm, Stephanie Heiner | Hera Hilmar, Jeremy Irvine, Kelsey Grammer, Olga Kurylenko, Jon Wennington |
Synopsis
The Optimist
Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Turbulence
Young married couple Zach and Emmy decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.
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