A Heavy Heart vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for A Heavy Heart). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 49m. A Heavy Heart is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Heavy Heart posterA Heavy Heart2016 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
A Heavy HeartDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20162025
Length1h 49m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryGermany–
DirectorThomas StuberSasha Leigh Henry
Main castPeter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Edin Hasanović, Lena Lauzemis, Reiner SchöneTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

A Heavy Heart

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

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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