A Family vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for A Family). A Family is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 36m. Dinner with Friends is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| A Family | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mees Peijnenburg | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Carice van Houten, Julian Cruiming, Finn Vogels, Pieter Embrechts, Celeste Holsheimer | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
A Family
Caught in the crossfire of their parents’ divorce, Nina and Eli are torn between loyalty, anger and a longing to be seen. Through their mirrored perspectives the same story unfolds, revealing how love can fracture and still find its way.
Dinner with Friends
After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…
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