A Separation vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.9/10 for A Separation). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 3m. A Separation is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Separation posterA Separation2011 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
A SeparationDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 10.0/10
Year20112025
Length2h 3m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorAsghar FarhadiSasha Leigh Henry
Main castPayman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Shahab HosseiniTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

A Separation

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's 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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